[Pkg-systemd-maintainers] Bug#744301: systemd: [PATCH] Provide a kernel-install package and enable EFI support

[Julian Andres Klode]

On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 06:45:45PM +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> Package: systemd
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> systemd ships kernel-install which can be used to install kernels
> for boot loaders conforming to the boot loader spec, such as gummiboot,
> barebox, and potentially others I am not aware of.
> 
> This is implemented in:
>   http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=users/jak/systemd.git;a=summary
> 
>   git://anonscm.debian.org/git/users/jak/systemd.git
> 
> Notably, I cherry-picked the upstream commits for src/kernel-install,
> and then changed all paths from /boot to /boot/efi, and added a
> kernel-install package. Finally, I enabled EFI support.

Further 2 things:

* I added a Breaks: gummiboot (<< 44-2~), this is supposed to be the
version of gummiboot dropping its own kernel installation script, and
might need to be adjusted if there are other gummiboot releases in
between

* The kernel-install script still has a bug with /proc/cmdline parsing,
it does not seem to skip initrd= correctly (I'll take this upstream). But
it works fine with a /etc/kernel/cmdline file.

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Julian Andres Klode  - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member

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