Kernel binrpm produces brokes grub2 config

Richard Weinberger
2014-07-29T10:18:40Z

Hi!

I'm not sure who to blame, but the below commit breaks the kernel binrpm target for me.
It produces a faulty grub2 config.
After installing such a kernel grub2 looks for vmlinuz-XY-rpm and initrd-XY-rpm.
These files are not existing and the machine does no longer boot.
Luckily an addition boot entry without the -rpm suffix exists, if remote access works
one can recover the machine.

My question is, why do we need these copy of vmlinuz anyway?
After calling installkernel on the -rpm variants you delete them again...

This <insert swear word here> happens on openSUSE 13.1, maybe their installkernel script needs fixing.

commit 3c9c7a14b6274074cc3af2b83d56a92547188f27
Author: Mike Marciniszyn <mike.marciniszyn@intel.com>
Date: Mon Jun 24 10:38:22 2013 -0400

rpm-pkg: add %post section to create initramfs and grub hooks

/sbin/installkernel is used to insure grub hooks are
inserted and the initramfs is created on the
target system.

The invokation installkernel will work with any
kernel as long as:
- /sbin/installkernel exists
- the kernel and sysem map files are readable

Signed-off-by: Mike Marciniszyn <mike.marciniszyn@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>

diff --git a/scripts/package/mkspec b/scripts/package/mkspec
index fdd3fbf..0aa6a24 100755
--- a/scripts/package/mkspec
+++ b/scripts/package/mkspec
@@ -112,6 +112,15 @@ echo ""
echo "%clean"
echo 'rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT'
echo ""
+echo "%post"
+echo "if [ -x /sbin/installkernel -a -r /boot/vmlinuz-$KERNELRELEASE -a -r /boot/System.map-$KERNELRELEASE ]; then"
+echo "cp /boot/vmlinuz-$KERNELRELEASE /boot/vmlinuz-$KERNELRELEASE-rpm"
+echo "cp /boot/System.map-$KERNELRELEASE /boot/System.map-$KERNELRELEASE-rpm"
+echo "rm -f /boot/vmlinuz-$KERNELRELEASE /boot/System.map-$KERNELRELEASE"
+echo "/sbin/installkernel $KERNELRELEASE /boot/vmlinuz-$KERNELRELEASE-rpm /boot/System.map-$KERNELRELEASE-rpm"
+echo "rm -f /boot/vmlinuz-$KERNELRELEASE-rpm /boot/System.map-$KERNELRELEASE-rpm"
+echo "fi"
+echo ""
echo "%files"
echo '%defattr (-, root, root)'
echo "%dir /lib/modules"

Thanks,
//richard