[PATCH 4/6] bootloader/payload: Add Payload.handlesBootloaderConfiguration() boolean

Vratislav Podzimek vpodzime at redhat.com
Tue Apr 29 12:13:16 UTC 2014


On Tue, 2014-04-29 at 11:53 +0000, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 4:45 AM, Vratislav Podzimek
> <vpodzime at redhat.com> wrote:
> > At least this piece of code: 
> >         # write out /etc/sysconfig/kernel
> >         writeSysconfigKernel(storage, version, instClass)
> > Has to be done even if payload handles boot loader configuration.
> 
> While I didn't originally omit it intentionally, let's make that
> intentional now - that file isn't used by OSTree installs at least.
> 
> 
> /etc/sysconfig/kernel is part of the hacky bridging between the
> package world and the kernel world.  But in OSTree, they are bound
> together.  You can't install (or remove) a kernel package as an
> individual operation.  To make any change, you have to create a new
> tree (with e.g. a different kernel), and then OSTree takes care of
> atomically updating your bootloader configuration.
That doesn't mean that every payload handling boot loader configuration
works the same way.


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Vratislav Podzimek

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