Proposed F19 Feature: Dracut HostOnly

[Josh Boyer]

On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 7:43 PM, Matthew Miller
<mattdm at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 06:57:29PM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
>> >> 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?
>> What?  No.  The kernel source RPM contains kernel sources.  It has
>> nothing to do with the initramfs.  It creates a dummy file with the same
>> name by dd'ing from /dev/zero and marks that as %ghost.  The actual
>> initramfs is built by grubby when the kernel package is installed because
>> of the call to new-kernel-pkg.
>
> I kind of feel like you're just jumping in the middle here. The discussion

Er... indeed.  I was.  I thought you were asking a different question.  I
misread, so apologies.

> was about building these at kernel build time, rather than having grubby do
> it. Then the above would cease to be true. If we've got binary bits we can't
> track back to the source, I can see why legal would be concerned.

Yes.  Also, that sounds horrible.

josh