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

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Message-ID: <56D06E29.8060801@suse.com>
Date:	Fri, 26 Feb 2016 16:24:25 +0100
From:	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.com>
To:	'Jiri Kosina' <jkosina@...e.cz>
Cc:	linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kbuild/mkspec: fix grub2 installkernel issue

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@...e.cz>

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

Applied to kbuild.git#misc.

Michal