Dropping unversioned kernel links/copies; adding linux-version command

[Ben Hutchings]

On Fri, 2011-04-01 at 13:49 +0200, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
wrote:
> Hello, all. I'm not a packager but GRUB2 upstream maintainer and so I'll
> speak from our point of view.
> > Dropping unversioned kernel links/copies
> Go for it. These files are just a nuisance
> > As I understand it, the main reason for these is to allow boot loaders
> > to be configured using the unversioned link names, so that neither users
> > nor maintainers have to update the configuration for new kernel
> > versions.
> >   
> Hm, goal not really accomplished. But I'll provide some GRUB2
> configuration snippets to accomplish this with scanning the kernel list
> at boot time if some admins don't want to rely on update-grub being
> correctly run. These scripts would just be an alternative, not default.
> > - Comparing and sort versions (grub gets this wrong)
> >
> >   
> Trouble comes from Debian adopting seemingly unpredictable version
> suffixes.

No it doesn't.  '-rcN' is just as problematic as '-trunk'.

> Could you perhaps provide a spec on how to compile 2 Linux
> versions so we all get it right and done in the same way?
> > With version 3.2 of linux-base, I've added the command 'linux-version'
> > which should make these things easier, and should help you to generate
> > kernel version menus without the aid of links.
> >   
> Haven't checked it yet. However I would like to avoid using
> debian-specific tool if possible. So I'd prefer a spec.

There isn't an official spec.  However the source and unit tests for the
DebianLinux Perl module (added to linux-base to support this command)
explain the rules I came up with.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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