But we cannot do this with Dracut itself, if Mr Dash Four was asking
about it. We need to compile all binaries we're including for specified
architecture. Similar tool has such a feature - Gentoo's Genkernel.
But it uses sources and compilies them specially for initramfs with
hardcoded instructions.
That would be my preference too!
Relying on what is currently installed on client's desktop machines is
NOT a good idea as I found out to my cost - most of the 'standard' and
already-compiled smartcard core libraries will NOT work on initramfs at
all and need to be pre-compiled with certain options in order to strip
down the dependencies to the bare minimum and allow them to function in
initramfs environment.
As I already pointed out in my previous post just picking up those
libraries from the client desktop machines will NOT work. I spent two
days tearing my hair apart to come to this conclusion, but the good news
is that I made the smartcard module WORK, so I am currently fine-tuning
it and stripping the dependencies even further, though this module will
have to be architecture (and therefore kernel) dependent!
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