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On Sun, 2012-01-01 at 08:53 +0000, Sven Vermeulen wrote: |
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> On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 07:59:47PM -0600, William Hubbs wrote: |
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> > 1) Start migrating packages along with upstream and have everyone who |
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> > has a separate /usr (including me by the way) start using an initramfs |
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> > of some kind, either dracut or one that we generate specifically for |
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> > gentoo. The reason I suggest the initramfs, is, unfortunately if we |
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> > migrate everything, nothing else would work. |
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> I use a separate /usr with LVM on all my systems. My root partition uses |
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> RAID1. And I never had the need for an initramfs of any kind. Also, there |
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> are some major hurdles to take when it comes to getting an initramfs working |
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> with SELinux. Most initramfs implementations I saw are not SELinux aware, so |
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> all changes they make to the system either result in failures when they try, |
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> or failures when the root-switch occurs. |
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dracut fully supports SELinux (it's used in Fedora which has this |
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SELinux horror on by default). |
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> > 3) Try to maintain things the way they are as long as possible. |
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> I'm all for this one. |
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> But if people really want to focus on initramfs, I'd appreciate some |
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> documentation help on it. Not only on how to create one, but also why it is |
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> necessary, how to manage initramfs'es, the concepts underlying, etc. |
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Short version: use dracut. |
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Olivier CrĂȘte |
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tester@g.o |
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Gentoo Developer |