On samedi 22 avril 2017 00:04:34 CEST Andrea Adami wrote: > > We lived for years with the relative symlink. > > Then 78ee4d8 broke the bootloaders in 2014 > Finally it was reverted end 2016 and now it is under review again...ouch > > What broke what? > > My point is, while I had the sources and could modify and reflash the > bootloader, the same is not valid for many people. > > Anyway, I have found out that there was a workaround to allow boot from NFS: > > +ROOTFS_POSTPROCESS_COMMAND += "make_zimage_symlink_relative;"
This works at image level, it is not package upgrade safe. IMHO, the symlinks must be relative (like every other distro) and therefore should not be maintained with update-alternatives (postinstall task should use plain 'ln') > > Cheers > Andrea David -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core