Olaf Hering wrote:
On Thu, Oct 17, Michal Vyskocil wrote:
there is a new request [1] for mkinitrd fixing few bugs for openSUSE Factory. However there was a big effort to replace dracut as a default initrd tool, which seems to be turned on in Factory (see This will replace mkinitrd with dracut as the default initrd generator. in dracut.changes).
Now that I see what you mean with the last sentence, here are my thoughts about the switch:
Rather than pretend to be mkinitrd, dracut should just be what it is: dracut. As such it should create the filenames it creates per default (initramfs instead of initrd), and it should be called by its name (dracut instead of mkinitrd). That means at some point, when dracut is ready, the places where mkinitrd is called should be changed to call dracut instead. And where code looks for /boot/initrd* it should look for /boot/initramfs*. At rpm packaging level the Requires should be adjusted to point to dracut, perhaps also something like a Conflict: perl-Bootloader < $oldversion should be added as needed. I think mmarek has a better understanding about what places need adjustments.
If its done in such a way then mkinitrd can be used in parallel and no fileconflicts in /boot would occur.
That would be very nice. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (15.2°C) http://www.hostsuisse.com/ - dedicated server rental in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org