Re: dracut now in Gentoo

[Harald Hoyer <harald-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>]

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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