Bug 203531 - /sbin/installkernel should accept INSTALL_PATH as $4
Summary: /sbin/installkernel should accept INSTALL_PATH as $4
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: mkinitrd
Version: 5
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
low
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Assignee: Peter Jones
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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Whiteboard: bzcl34nup
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-08-22 10:37 UTC by Robert P. J. Day
Modified: 2008-05-06 16:15 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2008-05-06 16:15:38 UTC
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Description Robert P. J. Day 2006-08-22 10:37:23 UTC
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

Comment 1 Bug Zapper 2008-04-04 03:34:54 UTC
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Comment 2 Bug Zapper 2008-05-06 16:15:37 UTC
This bug is open for a Fedora version that is no longer maintained and
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