Package: debianutils
Version: 2.23.1
Severity: normal
File: /sbin/installkernel
When running "make INSTALL_PATH=/home/user/foo install" in a kernel tree
/sbin/installkernel is called which tries to unconditionally call mkboot
which breaks as non-root since /usr/sbin is not in the regular $PATH.
make -C <snip>/linux-2.6.18-xen.hg O=<snip>/build-linux-2.6.18-xen_x86_64
install
sh <snip>/linux-2.6.18-xen.hg/arch/x86_64/boot/install.sh 2.6.18-xen \
arch/x86_64/boot/vmlinuz System.map "<snip>/dist/install/boot"
/sbin/installkernel: line 56: mkboot: command not found
make[6]: *** [install] Error 127
A couple of reasonable workarounds occur to me:
* Don't run mkboot if the user is not root;
* Only to run mkboot if $4 (install path) is empty (==install to
/boot);
* Use the full path to mkboot;
I tripped over this in the xen-unstable upstream builds which install
into a staging directory, I've applied a workaround there and I guess
it's not a particularly common scenario so feel free to reprioritize as
wishlist if you want.
Thanks,
Ian.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.21-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages debianutils depends on:
ii libc6 2.6.1-2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
debianutils recommends no packages.
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