Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (808 mails)

[Josef Reidinger <jreidinger@xxxxxxx>]

> On Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 04:44:48PM +0200, Josef Reidinger wrote:
> > Hi,
> > due to some complains about using values for new kernel entries from 
> > sysconfig I change behavior in perl-Bootloader to use value from menu.lst 
> > and only when old entry is not found use as backup sysconfig value.
> > I also merge some fixes from SLES.
> > Are there volunteers to test new package? ( mainly test updating kernel 
> > packages, try if manual changes to menu.lst preserve kernel update ). I 
> > don't want break factory in such sensitive part.
> >
> > New package can be found at ( my home repo - package perl-Bootloader))
> >     
> > http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/jreidinger/openSUSE_Factory/
> >  (factory)
> >     
> > http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/jreidinger/openSUSE_11.4/ 
> > (11.4)
>
> I've done a quick test on openSUSE11.4. The procedure is
>
> 1. Install new perl-Bootloader (openSUSE_11.4)
> 2. Manually modify kernel command-line options in menu.lst
> 3. Update kernel
> 4. Watch difference between menu.lst and menu.lst.old
>
> It seems all work like you said. The manual changes are honered and kept
> in new config. The only exception is that "root=..." was not kept for
> me (I changed it from root=/dev/disk/by-id/...part2 to /dev/sda2).
>
> But since sysconfig is not used to configure the "root= " statically.
> This is not considered an issue in my opinion.

Yes, 
root is taken explicitelly from /etc/fstab to ensure that it points to correct 
'/' and this behavior is not changed by this patch.
So testing looks fine and I add package to factory.
Thanks for testing
Josef

> Thanks,
> Michael
>
> > Thanks
> > Josef


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Josef Reidinger
Appliance Toolkit team
maintaining parts of webyast and SLMS
author of rubygems - studio_api and net_observer (coauthor)
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