[gentoo-commits] data/gentoo-news:master commit in: 2024-03-12-debianutils-installkernel/

[gentoo-commits] data/gentoo-news:master commit in: 2024-03-12-debianutils-installkernel/

[Andrew Ammerlaan]

commit:     3f723d16c712dbeb428052edbcc25b7c5a3153db
Author:     Andrew Ammerlaan <andrewammerlaan <AT> gentoo <DOT> org>
AuthorDate: Tue Mar 12 18:13:01 2024 +0000
Commit:     Andrew Ammerlaan <andrewammerlaan <AT> gentoo <DOT> org>
CommitDate: Tue Mar 12 18:13:01 2024 +0000
URL:        https://gitweb.gentoo.org/data/gentoo-news.git/commit/?id=3f723d16

2024-03-12-debianutils-installkernel: add news item

Signed-off-by: Andrew Ammerlaan <andrewammerlaan <AT> gentoo.org>

 .../2024-03-12-debianutils-installkernel.en.txt    | 62 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 62 insertions(+)

diff --git a/2024-03-12-debianutils-installkernel/2024-03-12-debianutils-installkernel.en.txt b/2024-03-12-debianutils-installkernel/2024-03-12-debianutils-installkernel.en.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6f30630
--- /dev/null
+++ b/2024-03-12-debianutils-installkernel/2024-03-12-debianutils-installkernel.en.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+Title: installkernel is no longer implicitly installed
+Author: Andrew Ammerlaan <andrewammerlaan@gentoo.org>
+Posted: 2024-02-26
+Revision: 1
+News-Item-Format: 2.0
+Display-If-Installed: sys-kernel/installkernel
+Display-If-Installed: >=sys-apps/debianutils-5.14-r1
+Display-If-Installed: app-misc/ca-certificates
+
+/sbin/installkernel is a script called by the kernel's "make install"
+as well as by the distribution kernel's post-install phase. If you are
+reading this then chances are you use and rely on installkernel[1] and
+what follows is essential for you.
+
+Previously sys-kernel/installkernel was implicitly installed on many
+systems via a dependency in sys-apps/debianutils. This dependency was
+toggled by the "installkernel" USE flag, and enabled by default.
+
+Until recently, sys-apps/debianutils was in turn pulled in by
+app-misc/ca-certificates, an essential package installed on many
+systems. However, this dependency of app-misc/ca-certificates on
+sys-apps/debianutils was removed[2]. As a result many users may find
+that sys-apps/debianutils and therefore sys-kernel/installkernel are no
+longer part of the dependency graph and will therefore be cleaned up by
+"emerge --depclean".
+
+Removing sys-kernel/installkernel from your system WILL change the way
+kernels are installed by "make install"! Instead of the versioned
+/boot/vmlinuz-x.y.z that you are used to, "make install" will simply
+copy bzImage (or equivalent for your arch) into /boot. This image may
+not be picked up by your bootloader or its configuration tools.
+
+To avoid surprises from such implicit dependencies from happening again
+in the future, the dependency on sys-kernel/installkernel in
+sys-apps/debianutils is removed. And as such, sys-kernel/installkernel
+is only installed on the system if it is either explicitly selected or
+pulled in via the distribution kernels (e.g. gentoo-kernel(-bin)).
+
+
+User Action Required (all users)
+====================
+
+Users who currently have sys-kernel/installkernel installed, must
+ensure that it is explicitly selected by emerging it:
+
+	emerge --noreplace sys-kernel/installkernel
+
+Users who find that sys-kernel/installkernel has already been cleaned
+from their systems and are therefore affected by the change in kernel
+installation described above should re-install sys-kernel/installkernel
+and then re-install their kernel.
+
+	emerge sys-kernel/installkernel
+	cd /usr/src/linux       # (or other location of the kernel sources)
+	make install
+
+Note that this re-installation is not required for users of the
+distribution kernels (e.g. gentoo-kernel(-bin)).
+
+
+[1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Installkernel
+[2] https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=6e6ccafd58bc7401fa371d2f255d72ddae0131e6

[gentoo-commits] data/gentoo-news:master commit in: 2024-03-12-debianutils-installkernel/

[Andrew Ammerlaan]

commit:     88dc6642839dd61eb2dc861035adb93419e6e9dd
Author:     Andrew Ammerlaan <andrewammerlaan <AT> gentoo <DOT> org>
AuthorDate: Thu Mar 14 09:44:10 2024 +0000
Commit:     Andrew Ammerlaan <andrewammerlaan <AT> gentoo <DOT> org>
CommitDate: Thu Mar 14 09:44:10 2024 +0000
URL:        https://gitweb.gentoo.org/data/gentoo-news.git/commit/?id=88dc6642

2024-03-12-debianutils-installkernel: clarify who must take action

Signed-off-by: Andrew Ammerlaan <andrewammerlaan <AT> gentoo.org>

 .../2024-03-12-debianutils-installkernel.en.txt        | 18 ++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/2024-03-12-debianutils-installkernel/2024-03-12-debianutils-installkernel.en.txt b/2024-03-12-debianutils-installkernel/2024-03-12-debianutils-installkernel.en.txt
index 6f30630..c0ddfd4 100644
--- a/2024-03-12-debianutils-installkernel/2024-03-12-debianutils-installkernel.en.txt
+++ b/2024-03-12-debianutils-installkernel/2024-03-12-debianutils-installkernel.en.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Title: installkernel is no longer implicitly installed
 Author: Andrew Ammerlaan <andrewammerlaan@gentoo.org>
 Posted: 2024-02-26
-Revision: 1
+Revision: 2
 News-Item-Format: 2.0
 Display-If-Installed: sys-kernel/installkernel
 Display-If-Installed: >=sys-apps/debianutils-5.14-r1
@@ -37,11 +37,13 @@ is only installed on the system if it is either explicitly selected or
 pulled in via the distribution kernels (e.g. gentoo-kernel(-bin)).
 
 
-User Action Required (all users)
+User Action Required (users of manually managed kernels)
 ====================
 
-Users who currently have sys-kernel/installkernel installed, must
-ensure that it is explicitly selected by emerging it:
+Users who manually configure, compile, and install their kernels, i.e.
+users of the sys-kernel/*-sources packages, and who wish to continue
+to use sys-kernel/installkernel, must ensure that it is explicitly
+selected by emerging it:
 
 	emerge --noreplace sys-kernel/installkernel
 
@@ -54,8 +56,12 @@ and then re-install their kernel.
 	cd /usr/src/linux       # (or other location of the kernel sources)
 	make install
 
-Note that this re-installation is not required for users of the
-distribution kernels (e.g. gentoo-kernel(-bin)).
+
+No manual action is required for users of the distribution kernels:
+- sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel, or
+- sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel-bin, or
+- sys-kernel/vanilla-kernel
+
 
 
 [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Installkernel