On Wed, Apr 26, 2023 at 12:36:10PM +0000, Jordan Glover wrote: > 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? That is why the topic is up for public discussion. It's unclear to me what the current package maintainers find acceptable/unacceptable. > What are the pros of consolidation? We can move to the systemd hooks and actually support stuff upstream. We can also work on a test suite that would make it easier to ensure we dont introduce regressions and maintain some code quality. -- Morten Linderud PGP: 9C02FF419FECBE16
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