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  • From: "Jeremy Blosser (emrys)" <jblosser-smgl AT firinn.org>
  • To: SM Discuss <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Linux Spell Custom Kernel Issues
  • Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 13:01:32 -0500

On Oct 28, David Brown [dmlb2000 AT gmail.com] wrote:
> === DKOWIS: FROM http://smbugs.isurf.ca/show_bug.cgi?id=10032#c2 ===
...
> So what I'm seeing is that you want a way to be able to install a kernel
> without having to go through the selection of kernels and patches.
>
> I think in an abstract way saying "use /usr/src/linux as my kernel and go!!"
> would be a good idea but I'm wondering if this should even be a part of the
> linux spell. (I'm concerned about bloat features that could be better
> implemented solutions elsewhere)
>
> Either making a set of scripts (similar to genkernel) or making some sort of
> advanced linux-custom spell that would 'just do the compile and install'
> might be a better solution than adding more sentinal values for the linux
> spell to handle...
>
> My view on what the linux spell should be is as follows:
> The linux spell isn't everything for everyone, the main purpose is to
> provide a easy to understand highly configurable interface for beginning to
> moderate linux users.

However it's done, we could use something like this. It would make things
like xen easier to deal with. It would also help with the spells that
build kernel modules... we've been changing those to use sorcery functions
to find the last built version of the kernel to figure out what tree to
build against. I know it has fallback if the linux spell isn't there, but
if someone has left the linux spell installed and just done their own
kernels past that I imagine it gets confused. It would be nice if those
advanced/custom kernels could still get themselves "registered" with
sorcery.

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