[ANNOUNCEMENT] dracut-0.3

[Harald Hoyer]

On 07/02/2009 03:26 PM, Peter Robinson 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.
>
> How does this work for changing plymouth spash plugins as I seem to
> remember these are installed into the initrd?
>
> Peter
>

Right, didn't think of that one.. ah well.. maybe package all plugins and make 
the theme selectable on the command line.