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diff --git a/metadata/news/2024-02-01-installkernel-new-use-systemd-boot/2024-02-01-installkernel-new-use-systemd-boot.en.txt b/metadata/news/2024-02-01-installkernel-new-use-systemd-boot/2024-02-01-installkernel-new-use-systemd-boot.en.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..e7b8364b9566 --- /dev/null +++ b/metadata/news/2024-02-01-installkernel-new-use-systemd-boot/2024-02-01-installkernel-new-use-systemd-boot.en.txt @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +Title: installkernel new USE flag systemd-boot +Author: Andrew Ammerlaan <andrewammerlaan@gentoo.org> +Posted: 2024-01-30 +Revision: 1 +News-Item-Format: 2.0 +Display-If-Installed: sys-kernel/installkernel[systemd] +Display-If-Installed: sys-apps/systemd[boot] +Display-If-Installed: sys-apps/systemd-utils[boot] + +/sbin/installkernel is a script called by the kernels 'make install' as well +as by the distribution kernels post install phase. sys-kernel/installkernel +provides two paths for installing the kernel: +- the traditional installkernel, or +- systemd's kernel-install + +In sys-kernel/installkernel versions lower then 20, systemd's kernel-install +would default to the layout used for systemd-boot (layout=bls). To improve +backwards compatibility with the traditional installkernel this is no longer +the case in versions 20 and up. Instead the default layout setting when no other +USE flags are enabled is a compatibility layout similar to the traditional +installkernel (layout=compat). + + +User Action Required (systemd-boot users) +==================== + +Users of systemd-boot should: +- enable the "systemd-boot" USE flag +when upgrading to >=sys-kernel/installkernel-20. + + +See also: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Installkernel + |