http://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1123721 Bug ID: 1123721 Summary: suse-module-tools must not depend on mkintird / dracut Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE Tumbleweed Version: Current Hardware: Other OS: Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Basesystem Assignee: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com Reporter: martin.wilck@suse.com QA Contact: qa-bugs@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- Discussion on https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/657402 and via email. Email from Dominique Leuenberger, 2019-01-24 ------------- Some more thinking and tinkering around the problems with suse-module- tools - and your https://github.com/openSUSE/rpm-config-SUSE/pull/6 Adding a runtime dependency from suse-module-tools to dracut is a bad thing (with the current setup), as you already know: * coreutils buildrequires suse-module-tools in order to get the initrd macros in place. * coreutils is part of the distro bootstrap cycle (which is already large/too large). Adding dracut (plus dependency chain) into this cycle will make it close to impossible to bootstrap any new distro, namely SLE16 This shall not mean that dracut as a dependency on suse-module-tools is wrong per se, and as you did in the last weeks, we should try to find a solution for this issue, and I think the started path is not the worst: * we remove the macro to rebuild the initrd from suse-module-tools, and move that to a common place (rpm-config-SUSE comes to mind, it already contains commonly used macros) * With this, coreutils could completely give up on the dependency on suse-module-tools, which means s-module-tools could be downgraded from a ring0 to a ring1 package. The macro is already smart enough to skipt over the execution of /usr/lib/module-init-tools/regenerate-initrd- posttrans if it does not exist * An additional problem will show up though: dracut requires suse- module-tools, and suse-module-tools will require dracut. To break that cycle in OBS you will have to add a "#!BuildIgnore: suse-module-tools" to suse-module-tools.spec. This way forward would solve the technical difficulties we have around building a self-contained distro, without making it harder on the distro maintainers AND will allow us to add a dependency to s-m-t that is being interpreted by OBS (or we could even add a fileprovides then - once coreutils no longer cares for it) If any mail recipient has a valid reason AGAINST this plan, please speak up - but please also offer alternative solutions. Otherwise, let's get things moving. There are still two ring0 packages that will need touching (rpm-config-SUSE and coreutils) - and ring0 packages are 'tough' as they put a high load onto the distro build, meaning stagins willing to take them are scarse. ------------- https://github.com/openSUSE/rpm-config-SUSE/pull/6 has been accepted for rpm-config-SUSE. The initrd-related macros have _not_ been removed from suse-module-tools yet (15.0.20). The dependency on mkinitrd has been replaced by a weak "recommends". -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.