shared /boot support. bz 197065

[Jarod Wilson]

On Tuesday 25 March 2008 02:02:04 am Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> On 24.03.2008 20:53, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> > On Monday 24 March 2008 03:32:37 pm 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!)
[...]
> >> -    install -m 644 .config $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/boot/config-$KernelVer
> >> -    install -m 644 System.map
> >> $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/boot/System.map-$KernelVer -    touch
> >> $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/boot/initrd-$KernelVer.img
> >> +    install -m 644 .config
> >> $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/boot/config-$KernelVer.%{_arch} +    install -m 644
> >> System.map $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/boot/System.map-$KernelVer.%{_arch} +   
> >> touch $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/boot/initrd-$KernelVer.img.%{_arch}
> >
> > For the sake of consistency, [...]
>
> For the sake of consistency we IMHO should use the same delimiter
> between "$(uname -r)" and arch in all places. E.g. either "." (like
> quoted above) everywhere or a "-", like we already use in the devel
> packages (e.g. /usr/src/kernels/2.6.25-0.141.rc6.git5.fc9-x86_64).

One thing I like about using "." over "-" is that you'd get 
2.6.25-xzy.fc9.x86_64 for uname -r output, which matches up nicely with what 
rpm -q outputs, now that we're defaulting to outputting n-v-r.arch.

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Jarod Wilson
jwilson at redhat.com