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Hello everyone, |
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Exam period still lasts, but it's starting to be better. |
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Last week I spend on writing new generic i18n module for Dracut. The |
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ready install script is posted to mailing list (at vger.kernel.org). |
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Here's a quote of abstract of this message: |
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Different distros have variables holding keyboard settings, fonts |
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and so in different files and even under different names. Sometimes |
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it's “SYSFONT” in /etc/sysconfig/i18n, sometimes it's “consolefont” |
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in /etc/conf.d/consolefont. I came up with idea to hold mappings in |
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configuration file (dracut.conf or dracut.conf.d/«distro».conf). |
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The script gathers variables and prepares two “unified” files |
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inside Dracut overlay. |
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The rest of the script is quite the same as redhat-i18n but some |
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tweaks. Dracut uses console_init written in C included in |
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initscripts RPM, but I'm gonna rewrite it in bash and then i18n |
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module will be fully generic. |
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After i18n will be fully finished (soon :-)), I'll focus on network |
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stuff. |
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References: |
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* Initramfs mailing list: |
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http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-initramfs/ |
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* My Dracut fork repo: http://github.com/aidecoe/dracut |
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* My blog: http://blog.aidecoe.name/ |
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Cheers, |
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Amadeusz Żołnowski |
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