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authorZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>2019-03-08 15:37:35 +0100
committerZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>2019-03-12 09:45:16 +0100
commitd271c5d345f25d9b49f929d620df47f21968886d (patch)
treec2aa9045735a163c4ac26e43653ca56aacc0c6d8 /NEWS
parent7054308a8df81683d5997b386e70d039bb55c6bb (diff)
downloadsystemd-d271c5d345f25d9b49f929d620df47f21968886d.tar.gz
kernel-install: rename $BOOT_DIR[_ABS] to $ENTRY_DIR[_ABS]
"BOOT" is misleading, because it sounds like this refers to /boot or $BOOT, when in fact it refers to some subdirectory. Those variable names are purely interal, so we can change them. $BOOT_DIR_ABS was used in NEWS, but it should not be (because it is an internal detail), so the old NEWS entry is reworded to use "entry directory".
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@@ -1957,12 +1957,14 @@ CHANGES WITH 234:
systemd-logind to be safe. See
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=dc48bd653c7e101.)
- * All kernel install plugins are called with the environment variable
+ * All kernel-install plugins are called with the environment variable
KERNEL_INSTALL_MACHINE_ID which is set to the machine ID given by
- /etc/machine-id. If the file is missing or empty, the variable is
- empty and BOOT_DIR_ABS is the path of a temporary directory which is
- removed after all the plugins exit. So, if KERNEL_INSTALL_MACHINE_ID
- is empty, all plugins should not put anything in BOOT_DIR_ABS.
+ /etc/machine-id. If the machine ID could not be determined,
+ $KERNEL_INSTALL_MACHINE_ID will be empty. Plugins should not put
+ anything in the entry directory (passed as the second argument) if
+ $KERNEL_INSTALL_MACHINE_ID is empty. For backwards compatiblity, a
+ temporary directory is passed as the entry directory and removed
+ after all the plugins exit.
Contributions from: Adrian Heine né Lang, Aggelos Avgerinos, Alexander
Kurtz, Alexandros Frantzis, Alexey Brodkin, Alex Lu, Amir Pakdel, Amir