This draft news item accompanies:
https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/35533
Random packages requiring some tool from Debian should not cause the
kernel installation process to change.
The dropping of the debianutils dependency in ca-certificates has
already caused some surprises due to ins
On 27/02/2024 03:28, Oskari Pirhonen wrote:
On Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 22:39:13 +, Lucio Sauer wrote:
On Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 06:13:32PM +0100, Andrew Nowa Ammerlaan wrote:
Previously sys-kernel/installkernel was implicitly installed on many systems
via a dependency in sys-apps/debianutils
On 27/02/2024 04:55, Duncan wrote:
Andrew Nowa Ammerlaan posted on Mon, 26 Feb 2024 18:13:32 +0100 as
excerpted:
Removing sys-kernel/installkernel from your system WILL change the way
kernels are installed by 'make install'! Instead of the versioned
/boot/vmlinuz-x.y.z that you a
On 27/02/2024 07:26, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
On Mon, 26 Feb 2024, Andrew Nowa Ammerlaan wrote:
Title: installkernel is no longer implicitly installed
Author: Andrew Ammerlaan
Posted: 2024-02-26
Revision: 1
News-Item-Format: 2.0
Display-If-Installed: sys-kernel/installkernel
Display-If
On 27/02/2024 18:24, Hank Leininger wrote:
On 2024-02-27, andrewammerlaan wrote:
Until recently, sys-apps/debianutils was in turn pulled in by
app-misc/ca-certificates, an essential package installed on many
systems. This is no longer the case.[2]. As a result many users may find
that sys-apps/
# Andrew Ammerlaan (2024-03-09)
# Requires pyside2/shiboken2, which is unmaintained upstream and
# not compatible with llvm-16 and up or python-3.12 and up.
# No upstream activity for 2 years.
# dev-python/QtPy is an alternative that does support Qt6.
# Removal on: 2024-04-09. Bug #926548
dev-py
# Andrew Ammerlaan (2024-03-10)
# Archived upstream, latest release is 3 years old. One test
# failure with python 3.11, more with python 3.12.
# Removal on: 2024-04-10. Bug #920439
sci-libs/scikit-optimize
# Andrew Ammerlaan (2024-04-18)
# Upstream gone, unfetchable, stuck on EAPI 6. Bug 605796
# Removal on 2024-05-18
sci-visualization/spectromatic
Hi all,
This patch series essential moves the dist-kernel initramfs/UKI
rebuilding out off zfs-kmod.ebuild and into linux-mod-r1.eclass.
In the process we fix several issues:
- zfs-kmod.ebuild binpkgs no longer rebuild currently running kernel,
but uses instead the kernel version that matches
Part of https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/37281
From c88eee66089333fbcee6377b5f580e70a4ec2a8c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Ammerlaan
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2024 22:18:46 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] kernel-build.eclass: identify dist-kernels, and warn users
Many, many, new users at some point
Part of: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/37292
This series builds on the previous patch: "kernel-build.eclass: identify
dist-kernels, and warn users"
Effectively, the change amounts to harmonizing the way ebuilds/eclasses
using "dist-kernel_reinstall_initramfs" re-install the dist-kerne
From 53f844361df57d480480b5e0ab0f35d2788ebf6a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Ammerlaan
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2024 15:08:49 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] mount-boot.eclass: check for ESP as well as /boot, split
eclass
This eclass is used by when the dist-kernel has to re-installed.
Depending on the
From c4c5ef732670f8b23f20b1215af49cdceacd28a3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Ammerlaan
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2024 16:12:39 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] kernel-install.eclass: move mount-boot check to
dist-kernel-utils.eclass
ebuilds and eclasses using dist-kernel_reinstall_initramfs should also
ha
From 3c5267472fb72223336063007173157a5de3f0cc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Ammerlaan
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2024 16:15:05 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] linux-mod-r1.eclass: check /boot if we are re-installing
dist-kernel
Previous commit already adds the check when we call
dist-kernel_reinstall_ini
From 45a34aecafa64a666976e3d3d7944f8c8ff1e058 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Ammerlaan
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2024 16:32:42 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] sys-kernel/linux-firmware: complain less when /boot is not
mounted
when using dist-kernel we can correct the problem and then
emerge --config ...
From c5cf62a41038e344312d8758a4ba232fcd726053 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Ammerlaan
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2024 16:36:46 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] sys-firmware/intel-microcode: complain less when /boot
is not
mounted
When using dist-kernel users can correct the problem and then
emerge --con
On 27/06/2024 06:00, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
AFAICS, no EAPI 6 ebuild inherits mount-boot, so EAPI 6 could be
dropped?
Yes, might as well drop that now. Here's v2:
From 9f6e912237bf1f67b3bb5341e64449a6b02703bc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Ammerlaan
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2024 15:08:49 +0200
On 27/06/2024 06:07, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
IMHO "while true" would be better readable.
Adjusted, here's v2:
From 422fcc5fb53c3f2adf25256fb7d18a65e4036496 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Ammerlaan
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2024 16:12:39 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] kernel-install.eclass: move mount-bo
On 28/06/2024 08:33, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
On Thu, 27 Jun 2024, Andrew Nowa Ammerlaan wrote:
On 27/06/2024 06:00, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
AFAICS, no EAPI 6 ebuild inherits mount-boot, so EAPI 6 could be
dropped?
Yes, might as well drop that now. Here's v2:
This could be simplifi
On 04/07/2024 00:01, Matthias Maier wrote:
Dear all,
I have had little time to contribute to Gentoo over the last 24
months. Therefore, I need to downsize in actively maintained packages.
I will drop myself as maintainer from the following packages in the next
couple days. Please adopt them if
Part of https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/33634
From f442d70bdbd0d410809ede4c23fe476177eee55d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Zen
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2024 13:04:35 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] kernel-install: Improve warning, consider alternate initrd
generators
Signed-off-by: Zen
---
eclass/kern
Part of https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/37327
From d57b75ed204432c11ae643ea3526b46dab40c746 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: James Calligeros
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2024 05:56:44 +
Subject: [PATCH] kernel-{build,install}.eclass: make kernel install paths
match release
dist-kernel releases a
Part of https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/37327
From 021915604b90ee45332dc373f401e52afa832370 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: James Calligeros
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2024 01:55:12 +
Subject: [PATCH] kernel-build.eclass: sanity check the prepared kernel's
release string
Previously, this was o
Part of https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/37327
From ec4e55ae9fd7cc6a4833981040f051ad2a3df15b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: James Calligeros
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2024 03:44:38 +
Subject: [PATCH] kernel-build.eclass: check that KV_FULL matches the kernel
release
We want to ensure all our
Part of https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/37327
From bcbc9191becab3cda6af8f9f2c0e1da6ebe395e1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: James Calligeros
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2024 22:47:33 +1000
Subject: [PATCH] kernel-install.eclass: improve kernel version check
Now that we have an improved version check
On 09/08/2024 18:11, Michał Górny wrote:
On Fri, 2024-08-09 at 17:49 +0200, Andrew Ammerlaan wrote:
(de)compressing modules changes the path of the module files so we need to
run depmod to ensure that tools such as modprobe/modinfo work.
Note that depmod is often, but *not* always, run by sys-k
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