Add for jaunty a default installkernel

Luis R. Rodriguez mcgrof at gmail.com
Fri Dec 12 22:48:25 UTC 2008


 /sbin/installkernel

Have a script which will let developers install and initramfs
automatically as per Ubuntu's style preference. I have such script,
its modified from debian's package, debianutils. I would send a patch
up to the maintainer of that package but that is very debian specific.
I think it would be nice to put this as part of the default install.
The changes I've made to debian's version is:

--- /sbin/installkernel.old     2008-10-04 12:45:40.000000000 -0700
+++ /sbin/installkernel 2008-10-04 12:45:46.000000000 -0700
@@ -66,6 +66,9 @@
   updatever config "$config"
 fi

+mkinitramfs -o $dir/initrd.img-$ver $ver
+update-grub
+
 ## This is very far from existing practice in modern Debian installations
 ########################################################################
 # if [ "$(basename $img)" = "vmlinux" ] && [ "$(id -u)" = "0" ] ; then #


I've attached my file. This allows us developers to install and test
kernels on Ubuntu quickly. So after I've compiled wireless-testing all
I'd have to do is:

sudo make modules_install install

  Luis
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