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On 23:26 Sat 03 Apr , Amadeusz Żołnowski wrote: |
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> I'd like to work on Dracut port to Gentoo. |
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Great! |
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> I've got a bit experience with initramfs. Have root in encrypted LVM |
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> PV. Standard genkernel initramfs' init needed a bit of modification for |
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> that. Later I wrote my own with support for uswsusp plus custom |
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> configuration of BusyBox. I've got a bit fun with that therefore Dracut |
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> idea attracted my attention. |
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It sounds like you have some experience writing in shell, then, which is |
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good. |
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> I've looked a bit in the latest Dracut sources. Basic image builds well, |
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> but there're are problems with tests. Paths needs fixes for Gentoo, but |
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> instead of a fork better would be to create separate config which would |
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> give ease to customize Dracut for other distros. Just for example, |
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> script for uswsusp assumes that resume is in /usr/sbin/ since in Gentoo |
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> it's in /usr/lib/suspend/. Unfortunately path is hardcoded there. |
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Have you contacted any upstream Dracut developers to discuss your idea |
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with them? It is critical that we do things that can go upstream. |
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Another option is along the lines of how things work in LTSP. There's a |
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set of generic task scripts that can be overridden by distro-specific |
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ones named identically but in separate directories. |
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> When Dracut is fully brought to life with Gentoo, next steps would be |
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> create ebuild and finally integrate with genkernel. |
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Agreed -- genkernel integration is key so this will get into our |
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LiveCDs. Another place that may require modifications if Dracut isn't a |
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perfect drop-in replacement for existing genkernel code is Catalyst, our |
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LiveCD generator. Our current initrds accept quite a few boot-time |
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options that will need to somehow be handled. |
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Thanks, |
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Donnie |
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Donnie Berkholz |
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Admin, Summer of Code |
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Gentoo Linux |
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Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com |
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