From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040122 Debian/1.6-1 Description of problem: When kernel RPMS install they call new-kernel-pkgs to update grub.conf. In the process of doing this a label/banner/title/whatever is assigned to the image that is derived from /etc/redhat-release if present or hard coded to "Red Hat" otherwise. The version of the kernel is appended to this value. I think it would be desirable to allow the banner to optionally be passed as an argument to new-kernel-pkgs. This would allow non-Red Hat supplied kernels to label themselves accordingly. At this stage there doesn't seem to be a way to do this, so non-Red Hat supplied kerrnel packages end up showing up as "Red Hat" or "Fedora Core" when installed - that is unless /etc/redhat-release has been modified. The patch is completely backwards compatible and quite small. Please apply it :-) -- Horms Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): mkinitrd-3.5.13-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run new-kernel-pkgs (or install a kernel package) 2. Inspect /etc/grub.conf 3. Actual Results: Installed kernel is labeled as "Fedora Core" Expected Results: Some facility to allow an alternate label Additional info:
Created attachment 97428 [details] Patch to add --banner option to new-kernel-pkg
This feature would also be useful in RHEL :-)
Thanks, applied in CVS and will be in 3.5.19
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This problem is certainly not a sercuirty issue, and furthermore, according to Jerremy Katz's comment, it seems to have been incoporated into subsequent versions of RHEL and/or Fedora. I am confortable for this bug to be closed.
Yeah, a changelog entry confirms. Thanks. * Mon Feb 09 2004 Jeremy Katz - 3.5.19-1 - nash/mkinitrd: quiet mode for nash and necessary mkinitrd changes to work with it - mkinitrd: add lxo's patch for copying lvm.conf (#112099) - new-kernel-pkg: allow specifying the banner used in the boot loader config on the command line (#114809)