* [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] kernel-install: Improve warning, consider alternate initrd generators
@ 2024-07-15 13:42 Andrew Nowa Ammerlaan
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From: Andrew Nowa Ammerlaan @ 2024-07-15 13:42 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-dev
Part of https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/33634
From f442d70bdbd0d410809ede4c23fe476177eee55d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Zen <z@pyl.onl>
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2024 13:04:35 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] kernel-install: Improve warning, consider alternate initrd
generators
Signed-off-by: Zen <z@pyl.onl>
---
eclass/kernel-install.eclass | 35 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
diff --git a/eclass/kernel-install.eclass b/eclass/kernel-install.eclass
index 77570a905ce11..9698b6be3562a 100644
--- a/eclass/kernel-install.eclass
+++ b/eclass/kernel-install.eclass
@@ -63,7 +63,10 @@ _IDEPEND_BASE="
>=sys-kernel/installkernel-14
)
initramfs? (
- >=sys-kernel/installkernel-14[dracut(-)]
+ || (
+ >=sys-kernel/installkernel-14[dracut(-)]
+ >=sys-kernel/installkernel-14[ugrd(-)]
+ )
)
"
@@ -190,7 +193,7 @@ if [[ ${KERNEL_IUSE_GENERIC_UKI} ]]; then
"
IDEPEND="
generic-uki? (
- >=sys-kernel/installkernel-14[-dracut(-),-ukify(-)]
+ >=sys-kernel/installkernel-14[-dracut(-),-ugrd(-),-ukify(-)]
)
!generic-uki? (
${_IDEPEND_BASE}
@@ -543,16 +546,26 @@ kernel-install_pkg_pretend() {
if ! use initramfs && ! has_version "${CATEGORY}/${PN}[-initramfs]"; then
ewarn
- ewarn "WARNING: The standard configuration of the Gentoo distribution"
- ewarn "kernels requires an initramfs! You have disabled the initramfs"
- ewarn "USE flag and as a result dracut was not pulled in as a
dependency."
- ewarn "Please ensure that you are either overriding the standard"
- ewarn "configuration or that an alternative initramfs generation plugin"
- ewarn "is installed for your installkernel implementation!"
- ewarn
- ewarn "This is an advanced use case, you are on your own to ensure"
- ewarn "that your system is bootable!"
+ ewarn "WARNING: The default distribution kernel configuration is
designed"
+ ewarn "to be used with an initramfs! Although possible, there is no
guarantee"
+ ewarn "that distribution kernels will boot without an initramfs."
ewarn
+ ewarn "You have disabled the initramfs USE flag, and as a result the
package manager"
+ ewarn "will not enforce the configuration of an initramfs
generator in"
+ ewarn "sys-kernel/installkernel."
+ ewarn
+ ewarn "If you wish to use a custom initramfs generator, then please
ensure that"
+ ewarn "/sbin/installkernel is capable of calling it via a
kernel installation hook,"
+ ewarn "and is also configured to use it via
/etc/kernel/install.conf."
+ ewarn
+ ewarn "If you wish to boot without an initramfs, then please
ensure that"
+ ewarn "all kernel drivers required to boot your system are
built into the"
+ ewarn "kernel by modifying the default distribution kernel
configuration"
+ ewarn "using /etc/kernel/config.d"
+ ewarn
+ ewarn "Please refer to the installkernel and distribution kernel
documentation:"
+ ewarn " https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Installkernel"
+ ewarn "
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Distribution_Kernel"
fi
}
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