[ANNOUNCEMENT] dracut-0.3

[Harald Hoyer]

On 07/02/2009 01:09 PM, Daniel Drake wrote:
> Hi Harald,
>
> On Thu, 2009-07-02 at 12:59 +0200, Harald Hoyer wrote:
>> Here it is, dracut-0.3!
>
> Thanks for your efforts, this is excellent.
>
> We've started using it for OLPC's F11 spin, including our own modules to
> implement OLPC features. So much nicer than what we had before!
>
> However, the spec file already pulls in a lot of dependencies, things
> like device-mapper and cryptsetup which we won't need. Especially for
> XO-1 we need to work to keep images small (1GB hard disk).
>
> Is there any chance that this could be split up, and the more exotic
> dependencies moved into subpackages?
>
> Cheers,
> Daniel
>
>

The idea is to pregenerate a generic initrd and package it in an rpm and deliver 
it together with the kernel. There should be no need to generate the initrd on 
an X0-1 itsself.

Read the dracut manpage. You could explicitly set the modules you want to use 
and omit those, you know you will never use.