Re: [PATCH] kbuild/mkspec: fix grub2 installkernel issue

From: Michal Marek
Date: Fri Feb 26 2016 - 10:24:31 EST


On 2016-02-26 16:15, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> mkspec is copying built kernel to temporrary location
>
> /boot/vmlinuz-$KERNELRELEASE-rpm
>
> and runs installkernel on it. This however directly leads to grub2
> menuentry for this suffixed binary being generated as well during the run
> of installkernel script.
>
> Later in the process the temporary -rpm suffixed files are removed, and
> therefore we end up with spurious (and non-functional) grub2 menu entries
> for each installed kernel RPM.
>
> Fix that by using a different temporary name (prefixed by '.'), so that
> the binary is not recognized as an actual kernel binary and no menuentry
> is created for it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx>

Fixes: 3c9c7a14b627 ("rpm-pkg: add %post section to create initramfs and
grub hooks")

Applied to kbuild.git#misc.

Michal