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From: hasufell <hasufell@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Anyone with access to genkernel repository? Or should genkernel be p.masked on amd64 profiles?
Date: Fri, 30 May 2014 19:20:19
Message-Id: 5388D9E6.9020901@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Anyone with access to genkernel repository? Or should genkernel be p.masked on amd64 profiles? by Sven Vermeulen
1 Sven Vermeulen:
2 > On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 04:34:09PM +0000, hasufell wrote:
3 >> Tom Wijsman:
4 >>>
5 >>> Please no p.mask for a single line being wrong...
6 >>>
7 >>
8 >> That's nonsense. The amount of wrong lines doesn't matter. A single
9 >> wrong line in the kernel can break your whole system as well.
10 >>
11 >> Please p.mask (or patch) immediately. There is no point in waiting.
12 >
13 > I'd appreciate any patch on the Gentoo Handbook to use another tool for
14 > initramfs. I have some experience with dracut, but the last dracut generated
15 > initramfs failed on my system, whereas genkernel's still goes well.
16 >
17 > The last Dracut generated initramfs also failed on SELinux systems, but that
18 > isn't something that cannot be worked around...
19 >
20 > Wkr,
21 > Sven Vermeulen
22 >
23
24 I have never used any of them. I am a bit confused why this is the
25 standard gentoo way, but I don't really care what is. A lot of gentoo
26 standards don't make any sense, so...
27
28 If you need help with manual initramfs configuration, feel free to ping
29 me. The only thing that was a bit more complicated was zfs support.