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On 18/07/12 04:05 PM, Alec Warner wrote: |
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> [...] However lets say I have coreutils in / and coreutils in my |
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> initramfs. I upgrade coreutils from v1 to v2. Are you saying that |
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> you are too afraid to update coreutils in / and then also update it |
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> in the initramfs (probably by running $TOOL to copy coreutils from |
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> / to initramfs-root.) |
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> I'm not suggesting that we necessarily do this automatically, just |
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> that people claim 'the tools do not exist to do this now' when in |
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> fact it seems fairly straightforward to do. |
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> I mean presumably you used $TOOL to build the initramfs once, so |
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> running $TOOL again to generate a new initramfs probably should |
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> not screw you, provided you have control over the configuration of |
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> $TOOL. |
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IIRC, and unless this has changed recently (ie within the last year or |
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two), a genkernel-generated initramfs is built on specific versions of |
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all the tools that genkernel itself ensures is downloaded, ie, *NOT* |
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the same versions as are installed in your / , and often are actually |
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older. |
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You can, of course, change this via /etc/genkernel.conf for each tool. |
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..so in that particular case, one would want their initramfs |
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regenerated when genkernel gets upgraded (but after |
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/etc/genkernel.conf is etc-update'd) |
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If I remember my hearsay correctly, dracut does build the initramfs |
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from tools on / , though...? |
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