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Hello everyone, |
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First of all new version of Dracut was released — 007 — the James Bond |
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release. ;-) The new version includes all changes I've made in Dracut. |
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In past week I've made a few fixes and docs updates, sent gensplash |
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(framebuffer splash) into upstream and Harald updated man page with my |
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surname as one of developers what makes me very happy. :-) The ebuild |
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for 007 is attached to bug #331903 [0]. |
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I've made following changes in previous patch for Genkernel: |
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* gen_dracut.sh - refactorized |
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* updated to dracut-007 |
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* more verbose |
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* final info for user about kernel args |
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* params for gensplash module may be passed by genkernel args |
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(previously only by /etc/conf.d/splash was possible) |
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* minor fixes |
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New patch is attached to the same bug #330127 [1] as previous. |
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For Catalyst I made just a tiny patch: |
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* for Catalyst we'd like to have generic image |
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* warning for old generator specific options |
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* for netboot target use old genkernel generator |
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To include new features we just have to provide Genkernel arguments to |
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gk_mainargs. There's no much to do with Catalyst. If something would be |
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wrong with initramfs in Catalyst it should be fixed in Genkernel. For |
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bad news I couldn't test Catalyst. It's really hard using it, |
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especially with 8 years old computer and bandwidth about 16 KiB/s with |
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1 GiB upload limit… Spend almost week trying to play with it but with |
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no much success. Although changes are tiny, so there should be no |
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problem. In case sth goes wrong I'm always reachable via e-mail, XMPP |
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and IRC. |
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My Questions |
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* What about using DocBook for Genkernel man pages? XML is much |
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nicer than troff. Dracut just moved to DocBook and would be nice |
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if Genkernel too. There's tool for convertion man page → DocBook |
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— doclifter [3]. |
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* What about Genkernel's old internal initramfs generator? I'd like |
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to remove it. It would make Genkernel's code, ebuild, help and |
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man page much simpler. But on the other hand there two things not |
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yet supported in Dracut: busybox and netboot in exact way. |
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Netboot is some kind of rescue image. With Dracut we can have |
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rescue too — with debug and nfs modules we have quite much handy |
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tools. Then just go into shell with rdshell kernel argument. For |
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me would be sufficient, but not sure what is really expected from |
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netboot. |
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Plans for this week |
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* update Genkernel man pages (either with really ugly troff or less |
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ugly XML or maybe you might suggest something even better?) |
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* clean old generator code if it would be OK |
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* maybe handle netboot stuff after gathered remarks |
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Off-topic question |
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Why we use by default old sys-apps/man-1.6f while there's a better |
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replacement: sys-apps/man-db? At least it handles UTF-8 better. |
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References: |
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* [0] Dracut ebuild: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=331903 |
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* [1] Genkernel patch: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=330127 |
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* [2] Catalyst patch: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=331923 |
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* [3] doclifter: http://www.catb.org/~esr/doclifter/ |
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* my forks of Dracut, Genkernel, Catalyst and also my overlay: |
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http://github.com/aidecoe/ |
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* my blog: http://blog.aidecoe.name |
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Cheers, |
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Amadeusz Żołnowski |
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