On 21/05/2019 04:41, Giancarlo Razzolini via arch-dev-public wrote: > Hi All, > > Recently, Dave announced his intention to step down as mkinitcpio > maintainer. I have been > handling a few things on it, made some small changes to our > mkinitcpio-busybox [0], closed a few old > bugs, while also made sure some of the other bug reports are still > valid. [1] > > I have been testing a few patches to mkinitcpio for a while to fix those > bugs, but last week Dave > and I had a discussion on IRC and we agreed that we could spend better > time contributing somewhere > else than keeping working with mkinitcpio. > > Currently mkinitcpio cannot boot from NFS properly, mknitcpio-nfs-utils > [2] uses very old code. Even > though ipconfig works, it has several drawbacks compared to using more > modern tools. Not to mention that > we have two use cases for mkinitcpio, which are base and systemd enabled > initramfs. Even though we use > by default our base enabled initramfs, we have to support systemd > related issues and we have to keep > developing our systemd hooks. > > I have been looking into dracut for some time now, I copied some stuff > from them on a few of my own > scripts and they also have an actual test suite, that we currently can't > use on Arch, but I plan to > change that. > > With this in mind, I have packaged dracut for Arch and put it on Extra > [3]. I have been using a dracut > initramfs for a while now to boot my encrypted partition. Surprisingly, > I only had to create a small patch > to one of the dm-crypt module scripts [4] > > In this initial phase I want to ask as many of you to test this as a > replacement to mkinitcpio in your setups, > as many as possible, and in as many scenarios as possible. We will > probably have to keep both packages on > our repos for a long time, but once we are confident it's a good fit, we > can replace mkinitcpio on our iso and base, > so new installs get dracut by default. > > Please, drop in your comments as well. > > Regards, > Giancarlo Razzolini > > [0] > https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/commit/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=packages/mkinitcpio-busybox&id=489fbd6f2ed1defd1c7f1b57e7d6edd25185e6d8 > > [1] https://bugs.archlinux.org/index.php?string=mkinitcpio&project=0 > [2] https://git.archlinux.org/mkinitcpio-nfs-utils.git/ > [3] https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/dracut/ > [4] > https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk/0001-90crypt-Change-the-module-setup.sh-to-use-uname-r-in.patch?h=packages/dracut >
Without looking at dracut yet, I have a few questions: - Is there a description how to move from mkinitcpio to dracut? - Does dracut support what mkinitcpio has? all the hooks and stuff - did you already add pacman hooks for dracut as we need for mkinitcpio, or is that not needed? When I have some time to spare I certainly will try it out.
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