Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 203531
/sbin/installkernel should accept INSTALL_PATH as $4
Last modified: 2008-05-06 12:15:38 EDT
in the current 2.6.17 kernel source tree, the script arch/i386/boot/install.sh contains the following: ... # Arguments: # $1 - kernel version # $2 - kernel image file # $3 - kernel map file # $4 - default install path (blank if root directory) ... so this script is clearly accepting the install path as the fourth parameter. further down that same script, we read: ... exec /sbin/${CROSS_COMPILE}installkernel "$@" ... so, just as clearly, installkernel is being invoked with the same set of parameters (including that fourth parm for install path). however, if you read /sbin/installkernel, you see: ... if [ -z "$INSTALL_PATH" -o "$INSTALL_PATH" == "/boot" ]; then INSTALL_PATH=/boot cfgLoader=1 fi KERNEL_VERSION=$1 BOOTIMAGE=$2 MAPFILE=$3 ... note how INSTALL_PATH is not being extracted from the parameter list, but from the set of environment variables. this just happens to work since the variable INSTALL_PATH is set and exported from the top-level kernel source tree Makefile, but it does seem inconsistent. i'd guess the proper approach would be for installkernel to do: INSTALL_PATH=$4 rday
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