Harald Hoyer <harald@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On 25.08.2015 15:51, Giuseppe Scrivano wrote: >> ping? >> >> Giuseppe Scrivano <gscrivan@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> We are currently considering to feed Dracut with --reproducible in the >>> rpm-ostree[1] project when creating a new OStree[2] tree image. In this >>> way there won't be need to store an additional file when the new initrd >>> file matches an older one. Everything works very well (except the >>> additional step of providing a patched GNU cpio for now). >>> >>> Reproducible images seem to make a lot of sense, also for users that >>> don't know about the --reproducible option. Is there any reason why >>> this is not done by default? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Giuseppe >>> >>> 1) https://github.com/projectatomic/rpm-ostree >>> 2) https://github.com/GNOME/ostree/ > > No significant reason, except the penalty of the extra step, which fixes all > the timestamps. do you think it makes sense to make --reproducible the default, or do you expect Dracut users, rpm-ostree in this case, to explicitly use it? Thanks, Giuseppe -- 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
