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| author |   Repository mirror & CI <repomirrorci@gentoo.org> | 2019-12-30 20:46:02 +0000 |
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| committer | Repository mirror & CI <repomirrorci@gentoo.org> | 2019-12-30 20:46:02 +0000 |
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Merge commit 'b53539af13d77a7ad811327b677b9933e1dfb1b0'
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diff --git a/metadata/news/2019-12-30-genkernel-4-default-filenames/2019-12-30-genkernel-4-default-filenames.en.txt b/metadata/news/2019-12-30-genkernel-4-default-filenames/2019-12-30-genkernel-4-default-filenames.en.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..ba5962e58602 --- /dev/null +++ b/metadata/news/2019-12-30-genkernel-4-default-filenames/2019-12-30-genkernel-4-default-filenames.en.txt @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +Title: Genkernel 4 changed default filenames +Author: Thomas Deutschmann <whissi@gentoo.org> +Posted: 2019-12-30 +Revision: 1 +News-Item-Format: 2.0 +Display-If-Installed: >=sys-kernel/genkernel-4 + +To be consistent with kernel's own naming which allows for easier +matching of kernel/initramfs with kernel files (/lib/modules), +genkernel 4 changed default kernel and initramfs filename: + + kernel-genkernel-%%ARCH%%-%%KV%% -> vmlinuz-%%KV%% + System.map-genkernel-%%ARCH%%-%%KV%% -> System.map-%%KV%% + initramfs-genkernel-%%ARCH%%-%%KV%% -> initramfs-%%KV%%.img + +Note that in genkernel 4, filenames are fully customizable and that +$ARCH value is now part of $KV value by default. + +All bootloaders and utilities like sys-apps/kexec-tools available in +Gentoo repository support the new naming schema. + +However, due to lexical ordering, the default boot entry in your boot +manager could still point to last kernel built with genkernel before +that name change, resulting in booting old kernel when not paying +attention on boot. |