shared /boot support. bz 197065

[Jeremy Katz]

On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 15:46 -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?

It's not running system things -- it's things like anaconda, the
anaconda image build scripts, livecd-creator, mkinitrd, ...   So
systemtap doesn't help much (well, unless there are more things
depending on it!)

And those are just what I've found in a quick look :-/

Jeremy