[arch-dev-public] [signoff] linux-3.0-2

[Ronald van Haren]

On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 7:17 AM, Ronald van Haren <pressh at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 6:09 PM, Tobias Powalowski
> <tobias.powalowski at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Hi guys,
>> please signoff 3.0 series for both arches.
>>
>> Upstream
>> changes:
>> http://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges
>>
>> Archlinux Changes:
>> - Rename the package kernel26 -> linux
>> - Added replaces everywhere
>> - Removed old comments and vercmps from .install file
>> - Removed old comments and replaces from PKGBUILD
>> - added compatibility symlinks for vmlinuz26 and initramfs filenames
>>  in PKGBUILD, in order to not break bootloader entries.
>> - removed System.map file, not needed anymore we provide
>>  /proc/kallsyms
>>
>> Now stuff to discuss before uploading to testing:
>> - kernel name: vmlinuz-linux
>> - initramfs name: initramfs-linux.img
>>  same for fallback of course.
>>
>> greetings
>> tpowa
>> --
>> Tobias Powalowski
>> Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa)
>> http://www.archlinux.org
>> tpowa at archlinux.org
>>
>>
>>
>
> Can you hold of moving it to [core] for a bit, I need to modify the
> grub and grub2 config files to handle the new naming scheme.
>
> There is a patch for grub2 (FS#25337) that I still need to verify, for
> grub in [core] we should probably check for both the old and new
> naming scheme as the lts kernel still uses the former.
>
> @Allan: as you said last week you were taking care of some grub fixes,
> can you do that on short term and add this, or should I go ahead and
> have a go tonight?
>
> Ronald
>

To clarify, grub/grub2 still boots, it is the creation of the (sample)
config files that gets broken by the new naming scheme.

Ronald