Date: Sun, 7 Nov 1999 13:17:45 +0100 From: Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Cc: Matt Behrens <matt@zigg.com>, zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: easyboot far into disk Message-ID: <19991107131744.A81793@saturn.kn-bremen.de> In-Reply-To: <199911070444.UAA63937@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> References: <19991107031828.A59629@saturn.kn-bremen.de> <199911070444.UAA63937@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
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On Sat, Nov 06, 1999 at 08:44:57PM -0800, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 06, 1999 at 11:30:39AM -0800, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> > > > I forgot:
> > > > make install DESTDIR=/mnt
> > >
> > > This has bugs in it, it flobbs with /var/db/kvm_kernel.db and should
> > > not do any of that stuff unless DESTDIR is null or / or / equiv.
> >
> > Hmm. I actually looked at the make -n output but missed that bug (oops!)
> >
> > What would break if we just used ${DESTDIR}/var/db/kvm_kernel.db
> > there too? Somehow i would believe it isn't doing it that way for
> > a reason...
>
> The fact that ${DESTDIR}/var/db may not even exist if I am using DESTDIR
> to stuff a kernel someplace safe.
I think it does a test -f, that should just fail in that case?
>
> Think about it... the purpose of frobbing with /var/db/kvm_kernel.db is
> becuase you _MAY_ be frobbing the kernel running image and libkvm doesn't
> like it when /kernel and /bar/db/kvm_kernel.db are missmatched.
Yep...
> (I think this
> code is also seriously broken for the case that you booted some other
> kernel.
Oh.
> It should only be frobbing things if the file it is about to
> replace is the file returned by ``sysctl kern.bootfile'', in all other
> cases it should do nothing more than install the file.)
Sounds good. so use ${DESTDIR}/var/db/kvm_kernel.db but only if
kern.bootfile is ${DESTDIR}/kernel? That seems to me like the
cleanest way to do it...
Regards,
--
Juergen Lock <nox.foo@jelal.kn-bremen.de>
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