Proposed F19 Feature: Dracut HostOnly

Dennis Gilmore dennis at ausil.us
Tue Jan 29 23:59:03 UTC 2013


On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 18:53:00 -0500
Matthew Miller <mattdm at fedoraproject.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 05:22:00PM -0600, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> > > We already ship several pre-generated initramfses.
> > that are built at kernel build time? the issue with building it at
> > build time was making sure we knew exactly what sourcs we needed to
> > ship to match all the binaries in the initramfs. the initramfs's we
> > build and ship as part of teh install tree we know exactly what
> > sources because they match what is in the release tree rather than
> > what was in the buildroot at build time.
> 
> Does the kernel source RPM matching the initrd contain the necessary
> sources?

not for every binary in the initramfs  its much more than just the
kernel and its modules.

Dennis


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