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From: Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] what about dracut and systemd?
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2017 01:13:31
Message-Id: CAGfcS_kEQJK8__dAh3-4xxVRG_Y5FT1Ogy55+ix5XFKDH0tfSQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] what about dracut and systemd? by John Covici
1 On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 9:04 PM, John Covici <covici@××××××××××.com> wrote:
2 > On Fri, 28 Jul 2017 21:00:50 -0400,
3 > Rich Freeman wrote:
4 >>
5 >> On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 8:52 PM, John Covici <covici@××××××××××.com> wrote:
6 >> > I have not done a world update in a few weeks and I like to check
7 >> > things out first before doing this. I am seeing that the latest
8 >> > update of dracut has the -systemd as a mandatory flag. So, since I
9 >> > have to use systemd, does this mean I can no longer use dracut -- I
10 >> > have found dracut very nice and would be sad to give it up.
11 >> >
12 >> > Any ideas on what is happening here?
13 >>
14 >> I'm not running 045 but it looks to me that systemd is just supported
15 >> automatically if it is installed. The USE flag was removed, but
16 >> support was not.
17 >
18 > OK, thanks a lot, I wish they would have news items for such things,
19 > or at least a changelog which seems to be missing in that directory.
20 >
21
22 I have no idea why you don't have a changelog - those are
23 system-generated from the git logs and maintainers have nothing to do
24 with them.
25
26 The relevant commit message seems to be:
27 commit 90bb5611b5aa9279ff3b0d4f5c25240bf4b0f9db
28 Author: Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o>
29 Date: Sun Jul 2 19:06:08 2017 -0400
30
31 sys-kernel/dracut: bump to 045
32
33 - Clean up ebuild code in general
34 - Remove unnecessary version setting
35 - Simplify gentoo.conf config file
36 - Depend on >=sys-apps/kmod-15 for libkmod
37 - Stop removing systemd and other modules
38 - Drop systemd USE flag
39 - Depend on sys-apps/coreutils[xattr] (bug 613516)
40
41 Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/615898
42 Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/613516
43 Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.6_p9, Repoman-2.3.2_p77
44
45 :100644 100644 6525882cc17... 04a511a44f1... M sys-kernel/dracut/Manifest
46 :000000 100644 00000000000... 86fddcc57bb... A
47 sys-kernel/dracut/dracut-045.ebuild
48
49
50 --
51 Rich

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