Re: [PATCH] mount-boot.eclass: do not create /boot/.keep in pkg_prerm

Ulrich Müller <[email protected]> Thu, 18 Jun 2026 07:30:01 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.gentoo.devel
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

>>>>> On Wed, 17 Jun 2026, Mike Gilbert wrote:

> systemd-gpt-auto-generator ignores mount points which are not empty
> directories. Let's avoid creating a .keep file under /boot every time a
> package using this eclass gets unmerged.

> [...]

> +	if [[ -n ${BOOT_EXISTS} && ! -d ${EROOT}/boot ]]; then
> +		# Recreate /boot in case it got un-merged
> +		mkdir "${EROOT}"/boot
>  	fi

That looks like a horrible hack. Can't systemd-gpt-auto-generator be
fixed instead, to ignore .keep* or .*? Also, there's nothing wrong with
a mount point containing files (/dev is a common example).

Ulrich

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