Re: [PATCH] load dracut.conf.d before dracut.conf

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

Am 08.01.2011 07:41, schrieb Anssi Hannula:
> On 21.07.2010 14:41, Harald Hoyer wrote:
>> On 07/14/2010 02:05 AM, Maarten Vanraes wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Here are some patches, some that were used as patches in the mandriva
>>> builds,
>>> and a first one from me, to fix nfs hostonly on chrooted installs.
>>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>>
>>> Maarten Vanraes
>>
>> Pushed the conffile patch and the bootchartd patch
> 
> The conffile patch causes dracut to load /etc/dracut.conf first and only
> then /etc/dracut.conf.d, allowing the latter to override the former.
> 
> IMO this is backwards. I thought distribution/package default stuff was
> supposed to be put in /etc/dracut.conf.d/*.conf, and /etc/dracut.conf
> was the place for the user to override them if they so wished.
> 
> Is this not the case?
> 
> If I've indeed misunderstood this, what is the recommended way for a
> user to override distribution default settings?
> Create a /etc/dracut.conf.d/zzz-last-user.conf?
> Wouldn't that make /etc/dracut.conf superfluous? Or is that file indeed
> intended for distribution defaults instead?
> 
> Or is there some more important reason to have it this way?
> 
> I've attached a patch which makes the behaviour sensible to me.
> 
> 
> For background, the Mandriva package (again, wrongly IMO) currently uses
> /etc/dracut.conf for distribution defaults and expects any user
> configuration to be in /etc/dracut.conf.d/*.conf, and that was the
> reason for the original patch submission; I'll change this behavior in
> Mandriva (no one was against it on our ml in March) if the attached
> patch gets OK'd.
> 

in Fedora, I put distro specific stuff in /etc/dracut.conf.d/01-dist.conf and I
encourage people to put their config in e.g. /etc/dracut.conf.d/99-myconf.conf