Am 08.01.2011 07:41, schrieb Anssi Hannula: > On 21.07.2010 14:41, Harald Hoyer wrote: >> On 07/14/2010 02:05 AM, Maarten Vanraes wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Here are some patches, some that were used as patches in the mandriva >>> builds, >>> and a first one from me, to fix nfs hostonly on chrooted installs. >>> >>> Kind regards, >>> >>> Maarten Vanraes >> >> Pushed the conffile patch and the bootchartd patch > > The conffile patch causes dracut to load /etc/dracut.conf first and only > then /etc/dracut.conf.d, allowing the latter to override the former. > > IMO this is backwards. I thought distribution/package default stuff was > supposed to be put in /etc/dracut.conf.d/*.conf, and /etc/dracut.conf > was the place for the user to override them if they so wished. > > Is this not the case? > > If I've indeed misunderstood this, what is the recommended way for a > user to override distribution default settings? > Create a /etc/dracut.conf.d/zzz-last-user.conf? > Wouldn't that make /etc/dracut.conf superfluous? Or is that file indeed > intended for distribution defaults instead? > > Or is there some more important reason to have it this way? > > I've attached a patch which makes the behaviour sensible to me. > > > For background, the Mandriva package (again, wrongly IMO) currently uses > /etc/dracut.conf for distribution defaults and expects any user > configuration to be in /etc/dracut.conf.d/*.conf, and that was the > reason for the original patch submission; I'll change this behavior in > Mandriva (no one was against it on our ml in March) if the attached > patch gets OK'd. > in Fedora, I put distro specific stuff in /etc/dracut.conf.d/01-dist.conf and I encourage people to put their config in e.g. /etc/dracut.conf.d/99-myconf.conf -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe initramfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
