From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262479AbULCT4F (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Dec 2004 14:56:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262470AbULCTzZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Dec 2004 14:55:25 -0500 Received: from smtp002.mail.ukl.yahoo.com ([217.12.11.33]:17559 "HELO smtp002.mail.ukl.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262491AbULCTya (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Dec 2004 14:54:30 -0500 From: Blaisorblade To: Sam Ravnborg Subject: Re: Why INSTALL_PATH is not /boot by default? Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 20:57:54 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.1 Cc: LKML References: <200411160127.15471.blaisorblade_spam@yahoo.it> <20041121094308.GA7911@mars.ravnborg.org> In-Reply-To: <20041121094308.GA7911@mars.ravnborg.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200412032057.54958.blaisorblade_spam@yahoo.it> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sunday 21 November 2004 10:43, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 01:27:15AM +0100, Blaisorblade wrote: > > This line, in the main Makefile, is commented: > > > > export INSTALL_PATH=/boot > > > > Why? It seems pointless, since almost everything has been for ages > > requiring this settings, and distros' versions of installkernel have been > > taking an empty INSTALL_PATH as meaning /boot for ages (for instance > > Mandrake). It's maybe even mandated by the FHS (dunno). > > > > Is there any reason I'm missing? > > Changing this may have impact on default behaviour of some versions of > installkernel. > If /boot is ok for other than just i386 we can give it a try. Sorry for not answering to this. What I say is *yes*, let's try it. However, I know that ia64 is different because I read that in Fedora 2 kernel RPM specs: # # IA64 wants to be different as usual.. sigh. # %ifarch ia64 %define image_install_path boot/efi/EFI/redhat %else %define image_install_path boot %endif that should be done with a "ARCH_DEFAULT_INSTALL_PATH" set by archs and the main Makefile taking it by default. (Or even without indirection). -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade