Re: [arch-dev-public] Mkinitcpio replacement with Dracut

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On Thu, 22 Aug 2019 at 21:36, Giancarlo Razzolini <grazzolini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Em agosto 22, 2019 16:29 Damjan Georgievski via arch-general escreveu:
> > Are there any news/updates on this front?
> >
> > I have dracut installed in one test VM, but I have to run it manually
> after
> > each kernel update. The wiki page [1] is still empty, so
> > how do I configure proper hooks to build the initramfs (and possibly also
> > disable the mkinitcpio ones)?
> >
>
> Yes. I have been working on pacman hooks for this. There are a few things
> I need
> to iron out before releasing it though. There's a need to change all
> kernels as
> well, because the hooks are deployed with them currently, this has to
> change.
>

Just in case, I'll mention kernel-install [1] once again, it's a nice
central hub where initramfs creators, bootloaders (and optionally signing
of uefi images) can hook into, and then any kernel install can call all the
users hooks with a single command.



[1]
https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/kernel-install.html


-- 
damjan



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