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From: Alexander Tsoy <alexander@××××.me>
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 20:19:19
Message-Id: 1401481429.8057.2.camel@Nokia-N900
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 On Fri May 30 22:30:32 2014 Sven Vermeulen <swift@g.o> wrote:
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
15 > generated initramfs failed on my system, whereas genkernel's still goes
16 > well.
17 >
18
19 Hmm.. You are the second person in this thread who experienced problems with latest dracut. I suspect this is due to hostonly-cmdline option, which is disabled by default. If this is really the case, we should either enable it in gentoo.conf or revert corresponding changes like in fedora [1].
20
21 And where are bug reports? :)
22
23 Sorry for offtop.
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25 [1] http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/dracut.git/commit/?id=2fa76e2882883ea64be6c3210c257cff4e4b641a
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27 > The last Dracut generated initramfs also failed on SELinux systems, but
28 > that isn't something that cannot be worked around...
29 >
30 > Wkr,
31 >     Sven Vermeulen
32 >
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35 Alexander Tsoy