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From: Ian Stakenvicius <axs@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr
Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2012 16:20:17
Message-Id: 4F032A3D.4010601@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: locations of binaries and separate /usr by William Hubbs
1 On 02/01/12 12:54 PM, William Hubbs wrote:
2
3 > The one thing I
4 > haven't figured out yet is whether it is possible to create an
5 > initramfs that doesn't have to be updated with every kernel upgrade.
6
7 I'm not sure if there is dracut-specific issues that would relate to
8 this, but the genkernel initramfs (as long as it didn't include any
9 kernel modules) used to work fine when used against a newer-built
10 kernel--note though that this was probably not 'supported' behaviour.
11 So I expect this to be the case with dracut as well.