dracut now in Gentoo

dracut now in Gentoo

[Lance Albertson]

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I recently attended Linux Plumbers Conf and saw Harald's talk on dracut
which got me interested in getting it into Gentoo. I just committed a
working ebuild for the latest version into the tree [1]. We had to make
a few patches in order to get it to work for us, so I created a branch
of the patches on github [2] for you guys to look at. If you prefer, I
can send the patches directly here. I wasn't the original author for
some of the patches, but you can see the discussion in the original bug
[3]. Specifically 3649a19207 needs some more work to make it more distro
agnostic.

I tested an image on a Gentoo machine and it worked but I haven't fully
tested all of the capabilities yet (I'm planning on doing that soon). If
you have any comments or suggestions for the Gentoo package, please
direct them to me since I'm the new maintainer.

Cheers-

[1] http://packages.gentoo.org/package/sys-kernel/dracut
[2] http://github.com/ramereth/dracut/tree/gentoo-002
[3] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=278442

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Re: dracut now in Gentoo

[Harald Hoyer]

On 09/29/2009 06:36 PM, Lance Albertson wrote:
> I recently attended Linux Plumbers Conf and saw Harald's talk on dracut
> which got me interested in getting it into Gentoo. I just committed a
> working ebuild for the latest version into the tree [1]. We had to make
> a few patches in order to get it to work for us, so I created a branch
> of the patches on github [2] for you guys to look at. If you prefer, I
> can send the patches directly here. I wasn't the original author for
> some of the patches, but you can see the discussion in the original bug
> [3]. Specifically 3649a19207 needs some more work to make it more distro
> agnostic.
>
> I tested an image on a Gentoo machine and it worked but I haven't fully
> tested all of the capabilities yet (I'm planning on doing that soon). If
> you have any comments or suggestions for the Gentoo package, please
> direct them to me since I'm the new maintainer.
>
> Cheers-
>
> [1] http://packages.gentoo.org/package/sys-kernel/dracut
> [2] http://github.com/ramereth/dracut/tree/gentoo-002
> [3] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=278442
>

Very nice, I will try merge your changes from the git :)
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Re: dracut now in Gentoo

[Harald Hoyer]

On 09/29/2009 07:29 PM, Harald Hoyer wrote:
> On 09/29/2009 06:36 PM, Lance Albertson wrote:
>> I recently attended Linux Plumbers Conf and saw Harald's talk on dracut
>> which got me interested in getting it into Gentoo. I just committed a
>> working ebuild for the latest version into the tree [1]. We had to make
>> a few patches in order to get it to work for us, so I created a branch
>> of the patches on github [2] for you guys to look at. If you prefer, I
>> can send the patches directly here. I wasn't the original author for
>> some of the patches, but you can see the discussion in the original bug
>> [3]. Specifically 3649a19207 needs some more work to make it more distro
>> agnostic.
>>
>> I tested an image on a Gentoo machine and it worked but I haven't fully
>> tested all of the capabilities yet (I'm planning on doing that soon). If
>> you have any comments or suggestions for the Gentoo package, please
>> direct them to me since I'm the new maintainer.
>>
>> Cheers-
>>
>> [1] http://packages.gentoo.org/package/sys-kernel/dracut
>> [2] http://github.com/ramereth/dracut/tree/gentoo-002
>> [3] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=278442
>>
>
> Very nice, I will try merge your changes from the git :)

Ok, pushed the changes.

Btw, switch_root is now in util-linux-ng.
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Re: dracut now in Gentoo

[Lance Albertson]

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On 09/29/2009 10:31 AM, Harald Hoyer wrote:
> On 09/29/2009 07:29 PM, Harald Hoyer wrote:

>> Very nice, I will try merge your changes from the git :)
> 
> Ok, pushed the changes.

Outstanding, thanks!

> Btw, switch_root is now in util-linux-ng.

Ah, looks like sys-apps/util-linux in Gentoo is actually util-linux-ng.
I'll fix package so that it deals with this correctly. I missed catching
that during the testing phase. I also plan on making a "git" ebuild so
that folks can test dracut easily on Gentoo from the git checkout.

I'm going to look into seeing about getting dracut support in genkernel
(Gentoo's kernel & initramfs builder) down the road. Having the option
for using it would be great. I'll also see if there are any features
that Gentoo needs specifically in dracut before we can use it more.

Cheers-

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Lance Albertson                                    lance <at> osuosl.org
Systems Administrator / Architect                        Open Source Lab
Network Services                                 Oregon State University
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