https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1189772 https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1189772#c7 Martin Wilck changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |kukuk@suse.com, | |lnussel@suse.com Flags| |needinfo?(kukuk@suse.com), | |needinfo?(lnussel@suse.com) --- Comment #7 from Martin Wilck --- (In reply to Felix Miata from comment #6)

FWIW, on Debians there's been this since forever: # Configuration file for update-initramfs(8)

This isn't very helpful, because you know pretty well that openSUSE isn't using initramfs-tools. We use dracut, and even small deviations from upstream dracut are being frowned upon by some.

IMO, openSUSE should also have an admin option not to rebuild, regardless of use case. What I do on openSUSE is set immutable flag on initrds. It doesn't stop the rebuild waste of CPU cycles and SSD writes, but I get the result I want.

Fair enough. Please open a feature request. Comments on closed bugs aren't well suited for tracking progress. Continuing nonetheless: My latest "playground" version of suse-module-tools postpones initramfs generation to the %posttrans stage in general, if INITRD_IN_POSTTRANS is set in the environment (currently this variable is set by some packages, in particular kernel module packages/KMPs, during the installation process). I see no issue with adding support for another environment variable, or some other sort of configuration avoiding building the initramfs entirely. And this is precisely the problem - I am unsure were such generic configuration options should live. In the past we would have used some file in /etc/sysconfig, but that's pretty much out of fashion these days. Global environment variables, set e.g. via /etc/environment, would work. This has the advantage that they can be easily set temporarily (an admin could simply set the env var before calling zypper), and that almost every Linux user has some basic mental concept of environment variables. The alternative wold be some (new?) configuration file somewhere under /etc, and/or a flag under /run for one-time disabling. Thorsten, Ludwig, what would be your take on this? -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.