On 02.09.2015 14:11, Giuseppe Scrivano wrote: > 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 > I think, I'll make it the default. -- 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
