[gentoo-dev] [RFC] News Item: Genkernel 4 changed default kernel and initramfs filename

[gentoo-dev] [RFC] News Item: Genkernel 4 changed default kernel and initramfs filename

[Thomas Deutschmann]

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Title: Genkernel 4 changed default kernel and initramfs filename
Author: Thomas Deutschmann <whissi@gentoo.org>
Posted: 2019-12-27
Revision: 1
News-Item-Format: 2.0
Display-If-Installed: >=sys-kernel/genkernel-4

To be consistent with kernel's own naming which allows for easier
matching of kernel/initramfs with kernel files (/lib/modules),
genkernel 4 changed default kernel and initramfs filename:

    kernel-genkernel-%%ARCH%%-%%KV%%      -> vmlinuz-%%KV%%
    System.map-genkernel-%%ARCH%%-%%KV%%  -> System.map-%%KV%%
    initramfs-genkernel-%%ARCH%%-%%KV%%   -> initramfs-%%KV%%.img

Note that in genkernel 4, filenames are fully customizable and that
$ARCH value is now part of $KV value by default.

All bootloaders and utilities like sys-apps/kexec-tools available in
Gentoo repository support the new naming schema.

However, due to lexical ordering, the default boot entry in your boot
manager could still point to last kernel built with genkernel before
that name change, resulting in booting old kernel when not paying
attention on boot.


-- 
Regards,
Thomas Deutschmann / Gentoo Linux Developer
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Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] News Item: Genkernel 4 changed default kernel and initramfs filename

[Ulrich Mueller]

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>>>>> On Fri, 27 Dec 2019, Thomas Deutschmann wrote:

> Title: Genkernel 4 changed default kernel and initramfs filename
         000000000111111111122222222223333333333444444444455555555
         123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567

Too long, GLEP 42 allows a maximum of 50 characters.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] News Item: Genkernel 4 changed default kernel and initramfs filename

[Thomas Deutschmann]

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On 2019-12-27 17:32, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
>> Title: Genkernel 4 changed default kernel and initramfs filename
> 
> Too long, GLEP 42 allows a maximum of 50 characters.

*sigh*

So maybe just

  Title: Genkernel 4 changed default filenames



PS: Where were you when

https://www.gentoo.org/support/news-items/2019-07-18-syncthing-update-incompatibility.html

and

https://www.gentoo.org/support/news-items/2019-11-25-rpi-firmware-dtb-files.html

were posted? :-)


-- 
Regards,
Thomas Deutschmann / Gentoo Linux Developer
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Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] News Item: Genkernel 4 changed default kernel and initramfs filename

[Ulrich Mueller]

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>>>>> On Fri, 27 Dec 2019, Thomas Deutschmann wrote:

> PS: Where were you when
> https://www.gentoo.org/support/news-items/2019-07-18-syncthing-update-incompatibility.html
> and
> https://www.gentoo.org/support/news-items/2019-11-25-rpi-firmware-dtb-files.html
> were posted? :-)

Indeed, they have both a title that is too long, and a "short name"
that is anything else but short.

Just as a reminder, the purpose of the "short name" part in
yyyy-mm-dd-short-name is to construct a unique identifier, because
there could be more than one news item posted at the same day.
GLEP 42 strongly recommends to limit its length to 20 characters.

Ulrich

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Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] News Item: Genkernel 4 changed default kernel and initramfs filename

[Thomas Deutschmann]

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Hi,

news item has been published:

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/data/gentoo-news.git/commit/?id=b53539af13d77a7ad811327b677b9933e1dfb1b0


-- 
Regards,
Thomas Deutschmann / Gentoo Linux Developer
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