Bug 201098

Summary:	packagekernel only supports the default kernel install; being able to install multiple kernels with different names would be nice
Product:	Base System	Reporter:	Enji Cooper <ngie>
Component:	kern	Assignee:	freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>
Status:	Closed Not A Bug
Severity:	Affects Only Me	CC:	cattelan, gjb
Priority:	---
Version:	CURRENT
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description Enji Cooper freebsd_committer

2015-06-24 20:33:25 UTC

- packagekernel only works if INSTKERNNAME isn't specified in src.conf/make.conf
- packagekernel only works with a single KERNCONF (KERNCONF can consist of multiple values).

Please extend packagekernel to support multiple kernconfs/INSTKERNNAME so we could build release media with multiple kernels and people can select them from a list/from the bootloader.

Comment 1 Glen Barber freebsd_committer

2015-06-24 20:37:22 UTC

The 'packagekernel' target works fine, and INSTKERNNAME is not needed in src.conf or make.conf.

Try:

 # make KERNCONF="GENERIC DEBUG" packagekernel

The selection from loader(8) is orthogonal to this, as the values need to be set in loader.conf(5), which is an entirely different bug.

Comment 2 cattelan 2015-06-24 21:06:23 UTC

One of issue that the first kernel packaged is kernel.tgz

We added a flag to force all the packaged kernels 
  .if !defined(NO_INSTALLKERNEL) 

into the path that always adds the kernel config name to the tarball.
kernel.${_kernel}.txz 

Basically so it is clear which config was used to build the kernel.