cvs commit: src/etc/rc.d Makefile kernel

[Sam Leffler]

John-Mark Gurney wrote:
> Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote this message on Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 16:28 +0000:
>> des         2006-03-17 16:28:12 UTC
>>
>>   FreeBSD src repository
>>
>>   Modified files:
>>     etc/rc.d             Makefile 
>>   Added files:
>>     etc/rc.d             kernel 
>>   Log:
>>   This script symlinks /boot/kernel to the directory that contains the kernel
>>   you booted from, unless /boot/kernel already exists and is not a symlink.
>>   This should only affect people like me who juggle multiple kernels and
>>   have KODIR = /boot/${KERN_IDENT} in /etc/make.conf to keep them apart.
> 
> What part of the tree assumes that /boot/kernel exists?  Shouldn't they
> be using a dirname'd version of kern.bootfile, which would make this
> change unnecessary?
> 

Makefiles in modules and in built kernels do I believe.  When I did the 
recent make release+sysinstall mods there was a bunch of discussion 
about whether /boot/kernel could be eliminated and/or made a symlink. 
In the end I took the conservative route and mv'd the installed kernel 
to /boot/kernel.  For compatibility with des's change sysinstall could 
just setup a symlink.  However it might also be good to leave the 
installed kernel around in case of a calamity (probably depends mostly 
on disk space).  Another interesting approach is to hack loader to do 
something more intelligent when /boot/kernel is not present (e.g. Ed 
Maste has mods to pick a up/smp kernel automatically).

	Sam