From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Harald Hoyer Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Final fixups to make the full testsuite work. Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 15:27:27 +0200 Message-ID: <4A1BEE3F.1010307@redhat.com> References: <151d32e89583815962af8d721b17d0b320f80a2f.1243306326.git.victor.lowther@gmail.com> <4A1BB5DE.3090206@redhat.com> <1243340142.4005.8.camel@sentry-no.us.dell.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1243340142.4005.8.camel-76q0VzFBGGqhmyxYjSZgiRL4W9x8LtSr@public.gmane.org> Sender: initramfs-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Victor Lowther Cc: initramfs-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@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 I think we should not write too many workarounds for outdated distributions/tools. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe initramfs" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html