[arch-dev-public] kernel 3.0 changes

Evangelos Foutras foutrelis at gmail.com
Sat Jul 23 11:43:04 EDT 2011


On 23 July 2011 18:26, Evangelos Foutras <foutrelis at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 23 July 2011 17:48, Evangelos Foutras <foutrelis at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 23 July 2011 13:41, Tobias Powalowski
>> <tobias.powalowski at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> anything else I missed, shout out now :)
>>
>> The creation of the initramfs image symlinks needs to be moved back to
>> the .install scriptlet because pacman doesn't track the old images and
>> will refuse to replace them.
>
> I wrote a patch [1] that does the above, and also adds
> provides/conflicts for the replaced packages.
>
> (Ten or so packages depend on kernel26-headers and a couple on kernel26.)
>
> [1] http://pkgbuild.com/~foutrelis/add-provides-conflicts-and-fix-initramfs-symlinks.patch

Corrected the patch to include ${_kernelname} in the kernel image
symlink (for unofficial kernel packages):

ln -sf vmlinuz-${pkgname} ${pkgdir}/boot/vmlinuz26${_kernelname} <--
this last bit was missing

Should be OK now. :)


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