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On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 12:50 PM, Tom Wijsman <TomWij@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Fri, 30 May 2014 19:26:38 +0300 |
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> Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o> wrote: |
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>> I have no plans in inserting my name to genkernel's ChangeLog, |
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>> and I've done my best to contact people (nobody cares) |
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>> Only initramfs tool I care and can warmly recommend to anyone is |
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>> dracut. |
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> I do have such plans for my favorite initramfs tool which is genkernel. |
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While all this bickering is nice to read, what is really needed is: |
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1. Somebody needs to step up and actually fix genkernel. |
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2. Somebody needs to update the handbook to document how to use |
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dracut and a list of standard working kernel configs that go along |
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with it. |
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Getting into "the official tool is foo" and "foo doesn't work for bar" |
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really isn't terribly useful. Those who like foo should make it work, |
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and those who like the alternatives should help make them |
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better-supported. |
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Personally I like dracut, but I'm not terribly happy that the last |
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dracut upgrade on my PXE+nfs-root box now takes 90 seconds to run DHCP |
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with the latest upgrade. But it does look like it will support |
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mounting that nfs share over an IPv6 tunnel broker. Whatever - it is |
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the price of living on the edge, and I haven't gotten around to filing |
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a bug so it obviously isn't that bad... :) |
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Rich |
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