Re: Consolidating our mkinitcpio hooks

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On Tuesday, April 25th, 2023 at 4:31 PM, Morten Linderud <foxboron@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Currently we have a lot of our mkinitcpio hooks in several packages which has
> never been consolidated. This makes it confusing where stuff belong and what is
> provided where, and I really want to consolidate everything.
> 
> It would help keeping up the development of the hooks, patch everything and
> ultimately write a test suite for mkinitcpio.
> 
> I also have long term plans on moving the default hooks from busybox to systemd,
> but this will happen at a later point.
> 
> Initially I really want to move the hooks from `cryptsetup` and `systemd`:
> 
> * encrypt and sd-encrypt from core/cryptsetup
> * systemd and udev from core/systemd

What if new cryptsetup release will need some changes in the hook? How would you ensure mkinitcpio hook and cryptsetup (or any other package requiring a hook) are kept in sync?
 
What are the pros of consolidation?
 
Jordan




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