Proposed F19 Feature: Dracut HostOnly

[drago01]

On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 1:25 AM, Matthew Garrett <mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 05:22:00PM -0600, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
>> On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 16:32:12 +0000
>> Matthew Garrett <mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org> wrote:
>> > On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 09:53:32AM -0600, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
>> > > as legal has said we cannot pregenerate initramfses i think this
>> > > should be a non-starter.
>> >
>> > 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.
>
> Yeah ok that case is a problem.

Not really. We use a chroot for builds you can look at root.log to see
which packages where present at buildtime so we know the sources that
are needed.
Does not really sound like a hard problem to me.