On Wed, 2009-09-09 at 11:22 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Jon Masters (jcm@xxxxxxxxxx) said: > > On Wed, 2009-09-09 at 11:14 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: > > > Hans de Goede (hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx) said: > > > > We're moving back to %post generation of dracut initrd's due to > > > > GPL concerns about shipping pre build initrd's. This means the initrd > > > > will no longer be truely generic. To reflect this and make clear it is > > > > not an mkinitrd initrd, the name was changes to simply dracut.img. > > > > > > Even with regeneration in %post, it can still be generic, yes? > > > > I think what Hans means is that it'll be "generic" in the sense of > > including more drivers than you are necessarily using, but it will only > > include what is installed at the time it is generated - i.e. not some > > weird firmware file that you don't already have around. > > That's a matter of reqiurements in the dracut package, though. Yes, it is, but I suppose the argument will be that this could add a lot of additional dependencies some users will complain about. I don't personally have a problem with it - I would rather they were all around and available to generate a generic image, but I'm just thinking aloud. Jon. _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
