Re: [PATCH 1/1] Final fixups to make the full testsuite work.

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

On 05/26/2009 02:15 PM, Victor Lowther wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-05-26 at 11:26 +0200, Harald Hoyer wrote:
>> On 05/26/2009 04:57 AM, Victor Lowther wrote:
>>> test-10 now completes sucessfully.  What has changed:
>> hmm, it completed sucessfully on Fedora 11 without any problems..
>
> Ah, distro issues.  I have been doing all my recent work using Ubuntu
> 9.04 x86_64.
>
> I suppose that brings up another rather fundamental question -- what
> degree of cross-distro compatibility should we be building into dracut
> from the beginning?  I try to write things so that dracut will work on
> anything whose udev rules are reasonably in line with upstream -
> everything but Debian, these days
>
> Is anyone besides me testing dracut on something that isn't Fedora?
>

Hmm, we should specify a minimum version requirement for the tools we use. Other 
distributions will catch up at some point.
I think we should not write too many workarounds for outdated distributions/tools.
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