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diff --git a/metadata/news/2024-03-12-debianutils-installkernel/2024-03-12-debianutils-installkernel.en.txt b/metadata/news/2024-03-12-debianutils-installkernel/2024-03-12-debianutils-installkernel.en.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..6f3063075b76 --- /dev/null +++ b/metadata/news/2024-03-12-debianutils-installkernel/2024-03-12-debianutils-installkernel.en.txt @@ -0,0 +1,62 @@ +Title: installkernel is no longer implicitly installed +Author: Andrew Ammerlaan <andrewammerlaan@gentoo.org> +Posted: 2024-02-26 +Revision: 1 +News-Item-Format: 2.0 +Display-If-Installed: sys-kernel/installkernel +Display-If-Installed: >=sys-apps/debianutils-5.14-r1 +Display-If-Installed: app-misc/ca-certificates + +/sbin/installkernel is a script called by the kernel's "make install" +as well as by the distribution kernel's post-install phase. If you are +reading this then chances are you use and rely on installkernel[1] and +what follows is essential for you. + +Previously sys-kernel/installkernel was implicitly installed on many +systems via a dependency in sys-apps/debianutils. This dependency was +toggled by the "installkernel" USE flag, and enabled by default. + +Until recently, sys-apps/debianutils was in turn pulled in by +app-misc/ca-certificates, an essential package installed on many +systems. However, this dependency of app-misc/ca-certificates on +sys-apps/debianutils was removed[2]. As a result many users may find +that sys-apps/debianutils and therefore sys-kernel/installkernel are no +longer part of the dependency graph and will therefore be cleaned up by +"emerge --depclean". + +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 are used to, "make install" will simply +copy bzImage (or equivalent for your arch) into /boot. This image may +not be picked up by your bootloader or its configuration tools. + +To avoid surprises from such implicit dependencies from happening again +in the future, the dependency on sys-kernel/installkernel in +sys-apps/debianutils is removed. And as such, sys-kernel/installkernel +is only installed on the system if it is either explicitly selected or +pulled in via the distribution kernels (e.g. gentoo-kernel(-bin)). + + +User Action Required (all users) +==================== + +Users who currently have sys-kernel/installkernel installed, must +ensure that it is explicitly selected by emerging it: + + emerge --noreplace sys-kernel/installkernel + +Users who find that sys-kernel/installkernel has already been cleaned +from their systems and are therefore affected by the change in kernel +installation described above should re-install sys-kernel/installkernel +and then re-install their kernel. + + emerge sys-kernel/installkernel + cd /usr/src/linux # (or other location of the kernel sources) + make install + +Note that this re-installation is not required for users of the +distribution kernels (e.g. gentoo-kernel(-bin)). + + +[1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Installkernel +[2] https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=6e6ccafd58bc7401fa371d2f255d72ddae0131e6 |