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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] issues with installing a new kernel
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On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 10:47:51AM -0700, Pete Gavin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I found a couple of issues with installing a new kernel...
> 
> First of all, I accidently installed the package w/o first mounting
> /boot. So, after I rebooted, grub loaded the old kernel, since it
> wasn't overwritten by the new one. I don't know if it would be a good
> idea to mount /boot from the ebuild script, but we should maybe add
> some kind of warning to it to at least remind people of it. Second, I
> *do* think it would be a good idea to add depmod -a {kernel_version}
> to the ebuild script, since this only changes stuff in the new module
> directory, which just got installed anyways. What do you guys think?

I think it would be good if the /boot mounted check were done in the
pkg_preinst() function, which gets called right before a merge.

Yes, it's fine to call depmod -a; if possible, find a way to make it
work with ${ROOT} so that we can merge to non-root filesystems and
have depmod operate on the correct set of modules.

Thanks again,

-- 
Daniel Robbins					<drobbins@gentoo.org>
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Gentoo Technologies, Inc.