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| author | Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl> | 2022-01-19 12:20:22 +0100 |
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| committer | Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl> | 2022-01-28 16:17:47 +0100 |
| commit | 367165a4069ac0c04882a05a8a80f6afb1e42760 (patch) | |
| tree | 3228c2bfea3b4388bc3204c5c1ebe2c31a07f2cf /man/kernel-install.xml | |
| parent | 680cec6b4ddb356d7dd087b197718712cb5c1662 (diff) | |
| download | systemd-367165a4069ac0c04882a05a8a80f6afb1e42760.tar.gz | |
kernel-install: add "$KERNEL_INSTALL_STAGING_AREA" directory
The general approach of kernel-install was that each plugin would drop in some
files into the entry directory. But this doesn't scale well, because if we have
multiple initrd generators, or multiple initrds, each generator would need to
recreate the logic to put the generated files in the right place.
Also, effective cleanup is impossible if anything goes wrong on the way, so we
could end up with unused files in $BOOT.
So let's invert the process: plugins drop files into $KERNEL_INSTALL_STAGING_AREA,
and at the end 90-loaderentry.install DTRT with those files.
This allow new plugins like 50-mkosi-initrd.install to be significantly simpler.
Diffstat (limited to 'man/kernel-install.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/kernel-install.xml | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/man/kernel-install.xml b/man/kernel-install.xml index bb76074d2e..685617863e 100644 --- a/man/kernel-install.xml +++ b/man/kernel-install.xml @@ -180,6 +180,10 @@ This should be configured as <varname>initrd_generator=</varname> in <filename>install.conf</filename>. </para> + <para><varname>KERNEL_INSTALL_STAGING_AREA=...</varname> is set for plugins to a path to a directory. + Plugins may drop files in that directory, and they will be installed as part of the loader entry, based + on the file name and extension.</para> + <variablelist> <varlistentry> <term>bls</term> |