[ANNOUNCEMENT] dracut-0.3

Harald Hoyer harald at redhat.com
Thu Jul 2 11:37:49 UTC 2009


On 07/02/2009 01:25 PM, Daniel Drake wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-07-02 at 13:14 +0200, Harald Hoyer wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Is it going to work like this in standard Fedora too?
> Or will dracut be invoked like mkinitrd is today, that is at RPM-install
> time on the target system?
>
> Daniel
>
>

My personal target is to deliver the initrd image with the kernel. For 
performance issues or special needs one can install dracut and generate his own 
image, if new kernels are installed.

We will see, if can work that way.




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