[OE-core] [PATCH] Revert "kernel: Fix symlinks"

[David Vincent]

On samedi 22 avril 2017 00:04:34 CEST Andrea Adami wrote:
> 
> We lived for years with the relative symlink.
> 
> Then  78ee4d8  broke the bootloaders in 2014
> Finally it was reverted end 2016 and now it is under review again...ouch
> 
> What broke what?
> 
> My point is, while I had the sources and could modify and reflash the
> bootloader, the same is not valid for many people.
> 
> Anyway, I have found out that there was a workaround to allow boot from NFS:
> 
> +ROOTFS_POSTPROCESS_COMMAND += "make_zimage_symlink_relative;"

This works at image level, it is not package upgrade safe. IMHO, the symlinks 
must be relative (like every other distro) and therefore should not be 
maintained with update-alternatives (postinstall task should use plain 'ln')

> 
> Cheers
> Andrea

David