dracut now in Gentoo
I recently attended Linux Plumbers Conf and saw Harald's talk on dracut which got me interested in getting it into Gentoo. I just committed a working ebuild for the latest version into the tree [1]. We had to make a few patches in order to get it to work for us, so I created a branch of the patches on github [2] for you guys to look at. If you prefer, I can send the patches directly here. I wasn't the original author for some of the patches, but you can see the discussion in the original bug [3]. Specifically 3649a19207 needs some more work to make it more distro agnostic.
I tested an image on a Gentoo machine and it worked but I haven't fully tested all of the capabilities yet (I'm planning on doing that soon). If you have any comments or suggestions for the Gentoo package, please direct them to me since I'm the new maintainer.
Cheers-
[1] http://packages.gentoo.org/package/sys-kernel/dracut
[2] http://github.com/ramereth/dracut/tree/gentoo-002
[3] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=278442
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Quoted 15 lines · Lance Albertson
I recently attended Linux Plumbers Conf and saw Harald's talk on dracut which got me interested in getting it into Gentoo. I just committed a working ebuild for the latest version into the tree [1]. We had to make a few patches in order to get it to work for us, so I created a branch of the patches on github [2] for you guys to look at. If you prefer, I can send the patches directly here. I wasn't the original author for some of the patches, but you can see the discussion in the original bug [3]. Specifically
3649a19207needs some more work to make it more distro agnostic.I tested an image on a Gentoo machine and it worked but I haven't fully tested all of the capabilities yet (I'm planning on doing that soon). If you have any comments or suggestions for the Gentoo package, please direct them to me since I'm the new maintainer.
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Cheers-
[1] http://packages.gentoo.org/package/sys-kernel/dracut
[2] http://github.com/ramereth/dracut/tree/gentoo-002
[3] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=278442
Very nice, I will try merge your changes from the git :)
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Quoted 15 lines · Lance Albertson
I recently attended Linux Plumbers Conf and saw Harald's talk on dracut which got me interested in getting it into Gentoo. I just committed a working ebuild for the latest version into the tree [1]. We had to make a few patches in order to get it to work for us, so I created a branch of the patches on github [2] for you guys to look at. If you prefer, I can send the patches directly here. I wasn't the original author for some of the patches, but you can see the discussion in the original bug [3]. Specifically
3649a19207needs some more work to make it more distro agnostic.I tested an image on a Gentoo machine and it worked but I haven't fully tested all of the capabilities yet (I'm planning on doing that soon). If you have any comments or suggestions for the Gentoo package, please direct them to me since I'm the new maintainer.
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Cheers-
[1] http://packages.gentoo.org/package/sys-kernel/dracut
[2] http://github.com/ramereth/dracut/tree/gentoo-002
[3] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=278442Very nice, I will try merge your changes from the git :)
Ok, pushed the changes.
Btw, switch_root is now in util-linux-ng.
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Very nice, I will try merge your changes from the git :)
Ok, pushed the changes.
Outstanding, thanks!
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Btw,
switch_rootis now in util-linux-ng.
Ah, looks like sys-apps/util-linux in Gentoo is actually util-linux-ng. I'll fix package so that it deals with this correctly. I missed catching that during the testing phase. I also plan on making a "git" ebuild so that folks can test dracut easily on Gentoo from the git checkout.
I'm going to look into seeing about getting dracut support in genkernel (Gentoo's kernel & initramfs builder) down the road. Having the option for using it would be great. I'll also see if there are any features that Gentoo needs specifically in dracut before we can use it more.
Cheers-
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