>>>>> On Mon, 26 Feb 2024, Andrew Nowa Ammerlaan wrote: > Title: installkernel is no longer implicitly installed > Author: Andrew Ammerlaan <andrewammerl...@gentoo.org> > Posted: 2024-02-26 > Revision: 1 > News-Item-Format: 2.0 > Display-If-Installed: sys-kernel/installkernel > Display-If-Installed: >=sys-apps/debianutils-5.14-r1 > Display-If-Installed: app-misc/ca-certificates
I have only some small remarks about spelling and style:
> /sbin/installkernel is a script called by the kernels 'make install' as well
s/kernels/kernel's/ (also occurs more times below)
> as by the distribution kernels post install phase. If you are reading this
> then chances are you use and rely on installkernel and what follows is
> essential for you.
> Previously sys-kernel/installkernel was implicitly installed on many systems
> via a dependency in sys-apps/debianutils. This dependency was toggled
> by the "installkernel" USE flag, and enabled by default.
Use either double quotes (which I'd prefer) or single quotes throughout.
> sys-apps/debianutils was in turn pulled in by app-misc/ca-certificates,
> an essential package installed on many systems. However, this
> dependency was recently removed. As a result many users may find that
> sys-apps/debianutils and therefore sys-kernel/installkernel are no longer
> part of the dependency graph and will therefore be cleaned up by
> 'emerge --depclean'.
> Removing sys-kernel/installkernel from your system WILL change the
> way kernels are installed by 'make install'! Instead of the versioned
> /boot/vmlinuz-x.y.z that you are used to, 'make install' will simply
> copy bzImage (or equivalent for you arch) into /boot. This image
s/you/your/
> may not be picked up by your bootloader or its configuration tools.
> To avoid surprises from such implicit dependencies from happening
> again in the future, the dependency on sys-kernel/installkernel in
> sys-apps/debianutils is removed. And as such sys-kernel/installkernel
Comma after "such"?
> is only installed on the system if it is either explicitly selected or
> pulled in via the distribution kernels (e.g. gentoo-kernel(-bin)).
> User Action Required (all users)
> ====================
> Users who currently have sys-kernel/installkernel installed, must
> ensure that it is explicitly selected by explicitly emerging it:
Avoid the double "explicitly".
> emerge --noreplace sys-kernel/installkernel
Put a # sign in front to make clear that it's a command? Alternatively,
indent the line (applies also for the three commands below).
> Users who find that sys-kernel/installkernel has already been
> cleaned from their systems and are therefore effected by
> the change in kernel installation described above should
> re-install sys-kernel/installkernel and then re-install their
> kernel.
Above you wrap lines at 75 chars, but here it's down to 60.
Please make it consistent. GLEP 42 suggests "The text body should be
wrapped at 72 characters."
> emerge sys-kernel/installkernel
> cd /usr/src/linux (or other location of the kernel sources)
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
But seriously, some users will copy and paste these commands, so making
it a bash comment starting with # may be better.
> make install
> Note that this re-installation is not required for users of the
> distribution kernels (e.g. gentoo-kernel(-bin)).
> See also: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Installkernel
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