shared /boot support. bz 197065

[Dave Jones]

On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 03:46:44PM -0400, Kyle McMartin wrote:
 > On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 03:38:38PM -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
 > >  On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 15:32 -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
 > > > I took a stab at bz 197065 and arrived at the patch below.
 > > > Would appreciate some eyeballs before I commit from people
 > > > familiar with the macro goo in the specfile. (Hi Roland!)
 > > > 
 > > > Aparently pm-utils will need a change to cope with the changed
 > > > filename, but I think that should be the limit of the damage.
 > > > (oprofile will need to append the archname on the end of System.map-$ver
 > > > filenames, but they're user-passed anyway, and not coded anywhere afaik
 > > > Hmm. Not sure about Systemtap).
 > > 
 > > I have this sinking suspicion that more things depend on the filenames,
 > > although I'm not coming up with what at the moment...
 > > 
 > 
 > We could use systemtap to run for a while with this set and watch to see
 > if anything boinks the wrong file?

I'm running a tree-wide grep right now, and it's already picked up
anaconda, bootchart, booty &  apt.  I expect kexec-tools, and yum will
probably be in the list too.

I'm starting to wonder if this is worth it for such a small use-case.

	Dave

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