Date: Mon, 09 May 2016 11:05:55 -0700 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, "freebsd-pkgbase@freebsd.org" <freebsd-pkgbase@freebsd.org> Cc: Ben Woods <woodsb02@gmail.com> Subject: Re: NO_INSTALLEXTRAKERNELS and PkgBase Message-ID: <3382220.3AgOZzUBmF@ralph.baldwin.cx> In-Reply-To: <20160507135005.GN62286@albert.catwhisker.org> References: <CAOc73CC6WoFHPDBa6LGMyhmnA1ZjiemffyTJBGBNSZwPOu8KzA@mail.gmail.com> <CAOc73CD_0O2bBNB9UH7JhzaCBj1iVD0t_FjkuPJEbWj3M2-oPA@mail.gmail.com> <20160507135005.GN62286@albert.catwhisker.org>
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On Saturday, May 07, 2016 06:50:05 AM David Wolfskill wrote: > [Recipient list trimmed a bit -- dhw] > > I'm speaking up here because IIRC, I whined to Gleb at what I perceived > to be a POLA violation a while back.... > > On Sat, May 07, 2016 at 09:59:06AM +0200, Ben Woods wrote: > > On 7 May 2016 at 09:48, Ngie Cooper (yaneurabeya) <yaneurabeya@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > glebius changed the defaults to fix POLA, but the naming per the behavior > > > is confusing. Right now the behavior between ^/head and ^/stable/10 > > > before/now match -- I just had to wrap my mind around the default being the > > > affirmative of a negative (i.e. only install one kernel, as opposed to > > > install all extra kernels by default). > > > -Ngie > > > > > > Indeed, I am not sure I understand the POLA violation entirely (ignoring > > the fact that this variable requires affirmation of a negative). > > > > If you list 2 kernels in the KERNCONF variable, why is it astonishing that > > 2 kernels get installed? Even if the old behaviour was to only install 1 > > kernel, if you are listing 2 kernels in KERNCONF presumably that is because > > you want to install 2 kernels? > > Errr... no: I don't. At least, not on the machine where I built them. Then don't pass them to 'installkernel'? That is, I think this makes sense if you want to build N kernels but only install 1: make buildkernel KERNCONF="FOO BAR BAZ" # only install the FOO kernel make installkernel KERNCONF="FOO" And then if you want to install multiple: # install both FOO and BAR kernels make installkernel KERNCONF="FOO BAR" The runaround seems to be whether this last case now should require multiple explicit installkernel invocations which I find inconsistent since the build stage doesn't. I would fully expect 'installkernel' to install all of the kernels listed in KERNCONF and would assume that it is up to the invoker to choose KERNCONF appropriately. -- John Baldwin
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