[arch-dev-public] kernel 3.0 changes

Evangelos Foutras foutrelis at gmail.com
Sat Jul 23 07:15:14 EDT 2011


On 23 July 2011 13:41, Tobias Powalowski
<tobias.powalowski at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi guys,
> everything is prepared and committed to linux/trunk.

That was fast. :)

> Now stuff to discuss before uploading to testing:
> - kernel name: vmlinuz-linux or vmlinuz-ARCH
> - initramfs name: initramfs-linux.img or initramfs-ARCH.img
>  same for fallback of course.
> - naming it $pkgname (which would be linux, would make it easier for
>  custom kernel building imho)

I much prefer the $pkgname suffix instead of 'ARCH' in the kernel and
initramfs images. It looks nicer, and (as you said) it's easier to
customize too.


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