svn commit: r264935 - head/release/amd64

[dteske at FreeBSD.org]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nathan Whitehorn [mailto:nwhitehorn at freebsd.org]
> Sent: Friday, April 25, 2014 3:09 PM
> To: Glen Barber
> Cc: src-committers at freebsd.org; svn-src-all at freebsd.org; svn-src-
> head at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: svn commit: r264935 - head/release/amd64
> 
> 
> On 04/25/14 15:06, Glen Barber wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 02:58:34PM -0700, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
> >> On 04/25/14 14:52, Glen Barber wrote:
> >>> On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 02:46:46PM -0700, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
> >>>> I appreciate the caution. Thanks for the clarification! I'm
> >>>> planning to get EFI support into the installer this weekend.
> >>> Speaking of the installer...
> >>>
> >>> How difficult would it be to be able to select a kernel for
> >>> installation if more than one kernel.${foo}.txz is provided on the
install
> medium?
> >>>
> >>> The use case I have in mind is where kernel.VT.txz is extracted to
> >>> /boot/kernel.VT (which I believe the loader menu already supports
> >>> multi-kernel), an alternate kernel can be chosen for booting and
> >>> then can subsequently be chosen as the installed kernel during the
> >>> extract phase.
> >>>
> >>> This would actually cut down quite a bit on snapshot build times,
> >>> since right now I have to do a separate build for each kernel.
> >>>
> >>> Thoughts?
> >>>
> >>> Glen
> >>>
> >> Not that hard. If you want to just add extra optional kernels, the
> >> installer doesn't even need any patches -- you just have to add it to
> >> the make release logic (and MANIFEST) as an extra tarball. Installing
> >> it to /boot/kernel would require removing the logic in
> >> bsdinstall/scripts/auto that removes "kernel" from the menu as a
> nonoptional package.
> > Hmm, if I remember correctly, last time I booted an installer with
> > multiple kernels, there were no options for the kernel in the
> > distribution menu.  Or do you mean that if it were marked as optional,
> > they would appear?
> >
> > Anyway, the release logic already supports 'KERNCONF="GENERIC VT"'
> > listing of multiple kernels, so that is not an issue.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Glen
> >
> 
> They just need to be in the MANIFEST file somehow. I guess they aren't
> being added by release(7)? All the installer does is list that file -- and
remove
> kernel.txz and base.txz by hand.

So where sysinstall last we left it supported only two optional
distributions,
the kernel-debug distribution and "local" distribution, bsdinstall supports
as many as you stuff into the manifest.
-- 
Devin

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