On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 7:43 PM, Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 06:57:29PM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote: >> >> that are built at kernel build time? the issue with building it at >> >> build time was making sure we knew exactly what sourcs we needed to >> >> ship to match all the binaries in the initramfs. the initramfs's we >> >> build and ship as part of teh install tree we know exactly what sources >> >> because they match what is in the release tree rather than what was in >> >> the buildroot at build time. >> > Does the kernel source RPM matching the initrd contain the necessary >> > sources? >> What? No. The kernel source RPM contains kernel sources. It has >> nothing to do with the initramfs. It creates a dummy file with the same >> name by dd'ing from /dev/zero and marks that as %ghost. The actual >> initramfs is built by grubby when the kernel package is installed because >> of the call to new-kernel-pkg. > > I kind of feel like you're just jumping in the middle here. The discussion Er... indeed. I was. I thought you were asking a different question. I misread, so apologies. > was about building these at kernel build time, rather than having grubby do > it. Then the above would cease to be true. If we've got binary bits we can't > track back to the source, I can see why legal would be concerned. Yes. Also, that sounds horrible. josh -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
