On 18.02.2011 12:15, Harald Hoyer wrote: > Am 08.01.2011 07:41, schrieb Anssi Hannula: >> 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 What's the purpose of /etc/dracut.conf then? If you don't think my previous patch was reasonable, I suggest removing it completely :) -- Anssi Hannula -- 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
