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On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Alec Warner <antarus@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 8:25 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> To me, it looks a lot like what once was / is now expected to be an |
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>> initramfs, which I find extraordinarily problematic, for the following |
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>> reasons: |
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>> 1) There are no truly mature tools for automatically generating and |
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>> installing an initramfs based on system requirements. Canek likes to |
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>> recommend dracut, which still isn't marked stable. I've gotten stable |
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>> genkernel to work reasonably, but its error reporting is terrible. |
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>> 2) There's no good means for applying software and security updates to |
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>> an initramfs. If having an initramfs is to be considered the new |
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>> normal, there should be some means of updating it as part of routine |
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>> system updates. |
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> Debian uses initramfs-tools... |
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AFAIK, neither genkernel nor dracut were expected to get tied to the |
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Gentoo update process. Has that changed? |
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:wq |
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