Hi, On 02/08/2024 17.05, Björn Bidar wrote:

Antonio Feijoo via openSUSE Factory <factory@lists.opensuse.org> writes:

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Why is it interesting and different from other initrd generators? Mainly, because it builds the initrd from distro packages instead of picking everything from your local host.

How is this supposed to work in practice when the distribution could already have moved further than the local installation? E.g. when rebuilding initramfs in TW without updating the rest of the OS. Picking everything from local host has the advantage that it assures that the components match the ones used on the host.

It's not supposed to work in that case, if a critical package involved bumps its version (e.g. systemd). But this way of working will be useful for other use cases. E.g., think about transactional systems, where the user cares more about guest container workloads and the host system is automatically updated. -- Antonio Álvarez Feijoo System Boot and Init SUSE