[Bug 506939] Review Request: dracut - a generic initramfs generator

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--- Comment #5 from Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com>  2009-06-19 15:28:05 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #4)
> > - Package needs ExcludeArch - ***
> > The 'generic' package really should be some sort of Suggests/Enhances on the
> > main package. Alas, we can't do that yet. (Requiring to pull in nbd seems
> > wrong.)
> 
> ok, then I rename it to dracut-buildall?

Well, I'm not sure it needs to exist. More below.

> > That being said, if we don't have some sort of requirements on lvm2, raid, etc.
> > tools in the main package, the ordering won't be right on kernel installs, and
> > it will try to build a non-generic initramfs when the tools haven't yet been
> > installed that may be needed for that system. This needs solved before we ship
> > it.
> 
> if the tools haven't been installed.. so you mean running a lvm / crypto / raid
> root without the tools ?

anaconda never runs mkinitrd; it simply relies on the kernel %post script to
run it to make a working initramfs. If you're doing an install to a RAID
device, or LVM, or encrypted FS, etc., those tools need to be on the installed
system when the kernel package is installed and mkinitrd/dracut is run.

Without Requires: in the mkinitrd/dracut package, there's no guarantee that
this is the case. (We had to respin mkinitrd to require kbd for F-11 because of
this, as it wasn't getting the proper keymaps for the user to enter passwords.)

So, we likely just need all these requires in the main package itself.

> > Other notes:
> > - dracut modules live in /usr. Do we need to be able to rebuild the initramfs
> > when /usr isn't present?  
> 
> good point! and plymouth?  

Hm, when you put it that way, maybe it's not such a big deal.

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