Hi all,
This set of patches adds a bunch of "libraries" to dracut:
- net-lib adds some utility functions to module 40network
- nfs-lib provides the special nfs handling that was in 95nfs/nfsroot
- url-lib is a new module for handling http{s}/ftp URLs with curl
- img-lib is a new module for dealing with archives & fs images.
They might need tweaking for style/GPL headers/etc - just let me know and
I'll fix up the patches.
Only patch 3 and 5 change existing code - the rest should be very low-risk.
Patch 3 ports the existing nfsroot to nfs-lib. This is kind of a
proof-of-concept (look how short it is! whee!) but it *has not been tested*.
Feel free to take or leave that patch - but if someone could apply it and
help test it, I would be *very* thankful!
Patch 5 moves 90livenet to url-lib, and I *have* tested this to confirm that
it works.
If these are accepted, some next steps might be:
- move things out of dracut-lib.sh to net-lib or nfs-lib
(wait_for_if_up, nfs_root_to_var, ip_to_var, etc.)
- add rpm/deb support to img-lib
(is there a way to do optional dependencies, specified in dracut.conf?)
- add support for live "updates" images to livenet
Thanks for looking these over,
-w
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