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-rw-r--r--2024-01-18-installkernel-merge/2024-01-18-installkernel-merge.en.txt19
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/2024-01-18-installkernel-merge/2024-01-18-installkernel-merge.en.txt b/2024-01-18-installkernel-merge/2024-01-18-installkernel-merge.en.txt
index 991c95d..568ce14 100644
--- a/2024-01-18-installkernel-merge/2024-01-18-installkernel-merge.en.txt
+++ b/2024-01-18-installkernel-merge/2024-01-18-installkernel-merge.en.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
Title: Merging of installkernel-gentoo and installkernel-systemd
Author: Andrew Ammerlaan <andrewammerlaan@gentoo.org>
Posted: 2024-01-18
-Revision: 3
+Revision: 4
News-Item-Format: 2.0
Display-If-Installed: sys-kernel/installkernel
Display-If-Installed: sys-kernel/installkernel-gentoo
@@ -33,9 +33,12 @@ User Action Required (GRUB users)
Previously sys-kernel/installkernel-gentoo provided kernel installation
automation for users of GRUB via USE=grub. The new sys-kernel/installkernel
provides the same functionality, which now works with both the traditional
-installkernel and systemd's kernel-install. Users of GRUB should check that
-the "grub" USE flag is enabled to ensure that systemd's kernel-install uses
-the correct layout that grub-mkconfig understands.
+installkernel and systemd's kernel-install.
+
+Users of GRUB should therefore:
+- check that the "grub" USE flag is enabled
+to ensure that systemd's kernel-install uses the correct layout that
+grub-mkconfig understands.
Users of GRUB may wish to explicitly choose either the traditional
installkernel or systemd's kernel-install, in which case they may do so
@@ -50,8 +53,10 @@ User Action Required (systemd-boot users)
Previously sys-kernel/installkernel-systemd provided kernel installation
automation for users of systemd-boot. sys-kernel/installkernel provides
-the same functionality but only via systemd's kernel-install. Users
-of systemd-boot should therefore ensure that the "systemd" USE flag is enabled
+the same functionality but only via systemd's kernel-install.
+
+Users of systemd-boot should therefore:
+- ensure that the "systemd" USE flag is enabled
when upgrading to >=sys-kernel/installkernel-14.
Users who are using the distribution kernels (i.e. gentoo-kernel(-bin)) should
@@ -75,7 +80,7 @@ plugins should either ensure that the same kernel installation method will be
used after upgrading to >=sys-kernel/installkernel-14 (via USE=+/-systemd) or
migrate these custom plugins (details are on the wiki [1]).
-Users of bootloaders other then GRUB or systemd-boot may want to retain the
+Users of bootloaders other than GRUB or systemd-boot may want to retain the
traditional /boot layout. They may do so by either:
- disabling the "systemd" USE flag, or
- when the "systemd" USE flag is enabled, enabling the "grub" USE flag as well.