Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Dracut HostOnly

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Am 30.01.2013 00:22, schrieb Dennis Gilmore:
> On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 16:32:12 +0000
> Matthew Garrett <mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 09:53:32AM -0600, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
>>> as legal has said we cannot pregenerate initramfses i think this
>>> should be a non-starter.
>>
>> We already ship several pre-generated initramfses.
>>
> 
> 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.
> 
> Dennis
> 

The problem with kernel modules is, that the system can have/need non-kernel.rpm
modules and you would have to stack several initramfs images then and that leads
to the problem with depmod generated files.
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