A recent commit (2f3a215) changed the parsing of /proc/cmdline to use a
shell array. Unfortunately, this introduced a bug: "read -ar line"
populates the shell variable $r, not $line. This breaks installation of
new loader entries:
# kernel-install add 3.17.1-304.fc21.x86_64 \
/boot/vmlinuz-3.17.1-304.fc21.x86_64
Could not determine the kernel command line parameters.
Please specify the kernel command line in /etc/kernel/cmdline!
This commit alters the read command to correctly populate the $line
array instead.
If /etc/kernel/cmdline is missing or empty, we read /proc/cmdline and
want to filter out the initrd line. Due to a bug, the whole contents was
filtered out.
The file should have been in /usr/lib/ in the first place, since it
describes the OS container in /usr (and not the configuration in /etc),
hence, let's support os-release files in /usr/lib as fallback if no
version in /etc exists, following the usual override logic.
A prior commit already enabled tmpfiles to create /etc/os-release as a
symlink to /usr/lib/os-release should it be missing, thus providing nice
compatibility with applications only checking in /etc.
While it's probably a good idea if all apps check both locations via a
fallback logic, it is only necessary in the early boot process, as long
as the /etc/os-release symlink has not been restored, in case we boot
with an empty /etc.
If 'kernel-install' is called as 'installkernel' it will be compatible with the
syntax used by the kernel's build system.
This means it can be called by doing 'make install' in a kernel build
directory, if the correct symlink has been installed (which we don't do by
default yet).
[Edit harald@redhat.com: removed basename and use shift]
Do the depmod in the kernel-install hooks, so hooks can produce/install
kernel modules and be part of the depmod.
Also move the basic boot loader entry creation and removal to a
plugin script.
If PRETTY_NAME is not defined in /etc/os-release, fallback to
PRETTY_NAME="Linux $KERNEL_VERSION".
Add documentation for everything in the man page.
- Consistent use of $VAR vs ${VAR}
- Consistent use of && vs 'if'
- Add error checking to some places
- Consistent error messages ("Can't" vs "Cannot", etc.)
- Function declarations at the top
- Miscellaneous adjustments
The wildcard matching the default loader entry should always be able to point to
the same machine.
So instead of sorting by <distribution>-<kernel-version>-<machine-id>
we better sort by <machine-id>-<kernel-version>.
