[Arm-dev] raspi kernel upgrade activates not the latest kernel version

[Stephan GUILLOUX]

On 05-Mar-19 00:15, Thorsten Holtkämper wrote:
>
> Am 3. März 2019 18:15:37 schrieb Pablo Sebastián Greco 
> <pablo at fliagreco.com.ar>:
>
>> El 3/3/19 a las 13:24, Pablo Sebastián Greco escribió:
>>>
>>> El 3/3/19 a las 12:24, Thorsten Holtkämper escribió:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> kernel upgrades on the raspi sometimes end up with not the latest
>>>> kernel being "activated" in the /boot directory. The reason for this
>>>> is the kernel rpm postuninstall script of the old kernel that is
>>>> removed:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> postuninstall scriptlet (using /bin/sh):
>>>> cp $(ls -1 /boot/kernel-*-*|tail -1) /boot/kernel7.img
>>>> cp $(ls -1d /usr/share/raspberrypi2-kernel/*-*/|tail -1)/boot/*.dtb
>>>> /boot/
>>>> cp $(ls -1d /usr/share/raspberrypi2-kernel/*-*/|tail
>>>> -1)/boot/overlays/*.dtb* /boot/overlays/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> It chooses the latest kernel version with "ls -1
>>>> /boot/kernel-*-*|tail -1" which fails for kernel versions that have
>>>> different number of digits in the version string, e.g. 4.9 and 4.14
>>>> or 4.14.91 and 4.14.103.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> An additional "sort -V" should fix the problem, i.e. "ls -1
>>>> /boot/kernel-*-*|sort -V|tail -1".
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> What do you think?
>>> That looks bad!!!, you may even end up removing your current kernel.
>>> The sort -V seems to do what we need to, but this will be a problem
>>> until the last 4.14.xx is removed from the system.
>>> I'll try to build a new kernel later today, so we can start testing 
>>> this.
>>>
>>> Thanks for the report.
>>> Pablo.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Best regards,
>>>> Thorsten
>> Just pushed a build with these changes
>> https://git.stg.centos.org/rpms/raspberrypi2/c/94eb3c3ad1e3828a885cf5e5178fc78e21cca990?branch=c7-sig-altarch-kernel 
>>
>>
>> When it finishes, it should appear here
>> https://buildlogs.centos.org/c7-kernels.armhfp/raspberrypi2/ (it should
>> be in a few hours)
>>
>> Let me know if you can test and how it went.
>
> I could do some testing, but there is no new kernel at the given URL.

It's there, now.

BR

>
> BR,
> Thorsten
>
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>> Thanks.
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>>
>> Pablo.
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