NO_INSTALLEXTRAKERNELS and PkgBase

Ngie Cooper (yaneurabeya) yaneurabeya at gmail.com
Sat May 7 07:48:34 UTC 2016


> On May 7, 2016, at 00:41, Glen Barber <gjb at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
> On Sat, May 07, 2016 at 12:35:10AM -0700, Ngie Cooper (yaneurabeya) wrote:
>> (Replying because I kicked the hornet’s nest when my build failed)
>> Hi Ben,
>> 
>>> On May 7, 2016, at 00:27, Ben Woods <woodsb02 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Saturday, 7 May 2016, Glen Barber <gjb at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> With 'installkernel', the first kernel listed in KERNCONF is installed
>>>> as the default (/boot/kernel), and subsequent kernels are installed with
>>>> the kernel name included in the path (/boot/kernel.${INSTKERNNAME}).  In
>>>> both cases (source-based upgrades and with pkgbase), the behavior will
>>>> remain the same.
>>>> 
>>>> Glen
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Hi Glen,
>>> 
>>> With the recent commit mentioned previously, only the first kernel listed
>>> in KERNCONF is installed unless make.conf contains the following line:
>>> NO_INSTALLEXTRAKERNELS=no
>>> 
>>> This affects both source-based upgrades (make installkernel) and package
>>> building (make packages).
>>> 
>>> Is this the desired behaviour?
>> 
>> The naming is very confusing. It should be:
>> 
>> - MK_INSTALLEXTRAKERNELS=no -> only install one
>> - MK_INSTALLEXTRAKERNELS=yes -> install multiple, as gjb@ described above.
>> 
>> Since I kicked the hornet’s nest (and imp@ complained about the
>> NO_*), I’ll introduce a new WITH/WITHOUT option for this and
>> release/release.sh can use it.
>> 
> 
> I think this raises a larger question - did "something" change that
> otherwise violates POLA?  The commit recently was intended to revert
> a POLA violation, so maybe I am not entirely clear on what branch this
> affects.
> 
> Are we talking about head or stable/10 here?

glebius changed the defaults to fix POLA, but the naming per the behavior is confusing. Right now the behavior between ^/head and ^/stable/10 before/now match -- I just had to wrap my mind around the default being the affirmative of a negative (i.e. only install one kernel, as opposed to install all extra kernels by default).
-Ngie


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