From: "Thomas Deutschmann" <whissi@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-commits@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-commits] proj/genkernel:master commit in: /, doc/
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2019 20:10:24 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1564348779.28109e6345d31d46cc226f5d5d84fc893c248ced.whissi@gentoo> (raw)
commit: 28109e6345d31d46cc226f5d5d84fc893c248ced
Author: Thomas Deutschmann <whissi <AT> gentoo <DOT> org>
AuthorDate: Sun Jul 28 01:31:42 2019 +0000
Commit: Thomas Deutschmann <whissi <AT> gentoo <DOT> org>
CommitDate: Sun Jul 28 21:19:39 2019 +0000
URL: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/genkernel.git/commit/?id=28109e63
Update help text and man page
Signed-off-by: Thomas Deutschmann <whissi <AT> gentoo.org>
doc/genkernel.8.txt | 47 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
gen_cmdline.sh | 4 ++--
2 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/genkernel.8.txt b/doc/genkernel.8.txt
index 8650881..f1ccbe6 100644
--- a/doc/genkernel.8.txt
+++ b/doc/genkernel.8.txt
@@ -270,7 +270,7 @@ LOW-LEVEL COMPILATION OPTIONS
*--*[*no-*]*nice*[=<niceness>]::
Runs the kernel make at the default niceness (reduction in priority) of
- 10, or in the case of --no-nice, runs the kernel make at normal priority.
+ 10, or in the case of *--no-nice*, runs the kernel make at normal priority.
INITIALIZATION
@@ -297,12 +297,12 @@ INITIALIZATION
When enabled, this will compile LVM for you.
*--*[*no-*]*mdadm*::
- Includes or excludes mdadm/mdmon support.
- Without sys-fs/mdadm[static] installed, this will compile mdadm for you.
+ Includes or excludes mdadm support.
+ When enabled, this will compile mdadm for you.
*--mdadm-config*=<file>::
Use <file> as configfile for MDADM.
- By default the ramdisk will be built *without* an mdadm.conf and
+ By default the ramdisk will be built *without* an 'mdadm.conf' and
will auto-detect arrays during boot-up.
*--*[*no-*]*microcode-initramfs*::
@@ -312,43 +312,50 @@ INITIALIZATION
*--*[*no-*]*dmraid*::
Includes or excludes DMRAID support.
+ When enabled, this will compile dmraid for you.
*--*[*no-*]*nfs*::
Includes or excludes NFS support.
*--*[*no-*]*e2fsprogs*::
Includes or excludes e2fsprogs.
+ When enabled, this will compile e2fsprogs for you.
*--*[*no-*]*xfsprogs*::
Includes or excludes xfsprogs.
+ When enabled, this will compile xfsprogs for you.
*--*[*no-*]*zfs*::
Includes or excludes ZFS support.
*--*[*no-*]*btrfs*::
Includes or excludes Btrfs support.
+ When enabled, this will compile btrfs-progs for you.
*--*[*no-*]*multipath*::
Includes or excludes Multipath support.
+ When enabled, this will compile multipath-tools for you.
*--*[*no-*]*iscsi*::
Includes or excludes iSCSI support.
+ When enabled, this will compile open-iscsi for you.
*--*[*no-*]*sandbox*::
Enables or disables sandbox-ing when building initramfs.
*--*[*no-*]*ssh*::
Includes or excludes SSH (dropbear) support for remote LUKS keys.
+ When enabled, this will compile dropbear for you.
*--ssh-authorized-keys-file*=<file>::
Specifies a user created authorized_keys file. By default genkernel
- will use "/etc/dropbear/authorized_keys".
+ will use '/etc/dropbear/authorized_keys'.
*--ssh-host-keys*=<create|create-from-host|runtime>::
When set to *create*, which is the default value, genkernel will embed
- SSH host keys from "/etc/dropbear" and will create those keys when missing.
+ SSH host keys from '/etc/dropbear' and will create those keys when missing.
When set to *create-from-host*, genkernel will embed SSH host keys from
- "/etc/dropbear" but will create those keys from "/etc/ssh" when missing
+ '/etc/dropbear' but will create those keys from '/etc/ssh' when missing
(not recommended for security reasons).
When set to *runtime*, genkernel will not embed any SSH host key in
initramfs and dropbear will generate needed host key at runtime (`dropbear -R`).
@@ -366,10 +373,12 @@ INITIALIZATION
Make and install kernelz image from 'arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.initrd'.
*--*[*no-*]*disklabel*::
- Includes or excludes disk label and uuid support in your initrd.
+ Includes or excludes disk label and uuid support in your initramfs.
+ When enabled, this will compile util-linux for you.
*--*[*no-*]*luks*::
Includes or excludes LUKS support.
+ When enabled, this will compile cryptsetup for you.
*--*[*no-*]*gpg*::
Includes or excludes support for GnuPG 1.x, the portable standalone branch
@@ -378,16 +387,19 @@ INITIALIZATION
After that, re-point the *root_key* argument to the new .gpg file.
*--*[*no-*]*busybox*::
- Includes or excludes busybox in the initrd or initramfs.
+ Includes or excludes busybox in the initramfs.
+ When enabled, this will compile busybox for you.
*--*[*no-*]*unionfs*::
Includes or excludes support for unionfs.
+ When enabled, this will compile unionfs-fuse for you.
*--*[*no-*]*netboot*::
Creates or does not create a self-contained env in the initramfs.
*--real-root*=<foo>::
- Specify a default for *real_root*= kernel option.
+ Specify a default for *real_root*= kernel option which will be
+ embedded into initramfs.
INTERNALS
@@ -407,7 +419,8 @@ INTERNALS
Clears or skips clearing all files in cache location on genkernel start.
*--tmpdir*=<dir>::
- Sets genkernel's temporary working directory to <dir>.
+ Sets genkernel's temporary working directory to <dir>. By default, a
+ directory below '/var/tmp/genkernel' will be used.
*--*[*no-*]*postclear*::
Clears or skips clearing all tmp files and caches after genkernel has run.
@@ -420,17 +433,17 @@ OUTPUT SETTINGS
option defaults to genkernel.
*--minkernpackage*=<file>::
- Archive file created using tar containing kernel and initramfs.
- NOTE: No modules outside of the initramfs will be included!
+Archive file created using tar containing kernel and initramfs.
+
+NOTE: No modules outside of the initramfs will be included!
*--modulespackage*=<archive>::
Archive file created using tar containing modules after the callbacks
have run.
*--kerncache*=<archive>::
- Archive file created using tar containing kernel binary, content of
- '/lib/modules' and the kernel config. NOTE: Archive is created before
- the callbacks are run.
+ Archive file created using tar containing kernel binary, content of
+ '/lib/modules' and the kernel config after the callbacks have run.
*--*[*no-*]*kernel-sources*::
This option is only valid if kerncache is defined If there is a
@@ -810,6 +823,6 @@ AUTHORS
SEE ALSO
--------
-/etc/genkernel.conf - genkernel configuration file
+'/etc/genkernel.conf' - genkernel configuration file
// vim: ft=asciidoc et tw=72 sts=4 ts=4 :
diff --git a/gen_cmdline.sh b/gen_cmdline.sh
index c93cffd..5d62a64 100755
--- a/gen_cmdline.sh
+++ b/gen_cmdline.sh
@@ -191,8 +191,8 @@ longusage() {
echo " Archive file created using tar containing modules after"
echo " the callbacks have run"
echo " --kerncache=<archive> Archive file created using tar containing kernel binary,"
- echo " content of /lib/modules and the kernel config."
- echo " NOTE: Archive is created before the callbacks are run!"
+ echo " content of /lib/modules and the kernel config after the"
+ echo " callbacks have run"
echo " --no-kernel-sources This option is only valid if kerncache is"
echo " defined. If there is a valid kerncache no checks"
echo " will be made against a kernel source tree"
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