From: Pete Gavin <pete@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] issues with installing a new kernel
Date: Tue Feb 6 20:10:02 2001 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010206200916.A1393@cvs.gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3A80AAEA.C1199B30@gottinger.de>; from 320095285153-0001@t-online.de on Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 02:54:50AM +0100
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 02:54:50AM +0100, Achim Gottinger wrote:
> > 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.
> >
>
> But a /boot partition is not neccesary.
>
Well, I added a simple check in pkg_preinst in
linux-2.4.0.11-r3.ebuild to see if /boot exists in /etc/fstab, and if
so, it mounts it, then it will unmount it in pkg_postinst.
> > 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.
>
I also added a call to depmod -a with the -b swtich which allows you
to specifiy a root directory to use.
Pete
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-02-07 3:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-02-06 10:48 [gentoo-dev] issues with installing a new kernel Pete Gavin
2001-02-06 11:25 ` drobbins
2001-02-06 19:22 ` Achim Gottinger
2001-02-06 20:10 ` Pete Gavin [this message]
2001-02-06 20:37 ` Achim Gottinger
2001-02-06 20:43 ` Pete Gavin
2001-02-06 20:53 ` Achim Gottinger
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