Re: [gentoo-genkernel] Genkernel and Dracut integration

[Sebastian Pipping]

Hello Amadeusz,


On 09/01/2012 01:46 PM, Amadeusz Żołnowski wrote:
> I propose to extract the initramfs generator from Genkernel and
> make it a standalone project.

Any ideas how that could be done best on a technical level?


> The rest of the Genkernel could be rewritten to support both
> Gentoo's initramfs generator, Dracut and maybe some other in the
> future.  Of course this would be my job to do so and I'm only
> asking for acceptance from you.
>
> Another problem arisen is the name and versioning.  Solutions:
>
> 1) The framework integrating old Genkernel and Dracut could be
> just bumped to:
>
> a) 4 - because there's no official 4.x release, b) 5 - because
> there's an unofficial and dead 4.x:
> https://github.com/eedgar/genkernel4

Either would be fine by me.


> 2) The framework could be named genboot, because it actually takes
> care of kernel, initramfs and boot manager entries.  Although we're
> losing old good name.
>
> I am definitely for (1).  The extracted old internal Genkernel
> initramfs generator would need to be named differently for either
> case, for example: geninitrd, geninitramfs, genifs, genird or
> geninitfs.

Out of those "geninitramfs" seems best to me.  The "gen" prefix can be
read as "generate" rather than "Gentoo" but "genkernel" has always had
that problem, too.

Best,



Sebastian