[ANNOUNCE] yaird 0.0.7, a mkinitrd based on hotplug concepts

[ANNOUNCE] yaird 0.0.7, a mkinitrd based on hotplug concepts

[Erik van Konijnenburg]

Version 0.0.7 of yaird is now available at:
	http://www.xs4all.nl/~ekonijn/yaird/yaird-0.0.7.tar.gz

Yaird is a proof of concept perl rewrite of mkinitrd.  It aims to
reliably identify the necessary modules by using the same algorithms
as hotplug, and comes with a template system to to tune the tool for
different distributions and experiment with different image layouts.
It requires a 2.6 kernel with hotplug.  There is a paper discussing it at:

	http://www.xs4all.nl/~ekonijn/yaird/yaird.html

Summary of user visible changes:
     * Support cryptsetup-luks (Based on a patch by Dick Middleton)
     * Bugfixes
       - cryptsetup, handle multiple hard links to same block special dev
       - cryptsetup, recognise keyword 'none' in /etc/crypttab
       - cryptsetup, keyfile check now for both luks and plain
       - cryptsetup, missing module for aes-cbc-essiv:sha256
       - Fedora template: dash was used instead of ash

On top of the todo list are now:
     * support NFS devices
     * support loopback devices

Regards,
Erik


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