On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 6:22 PM, Dennis Gilmore <den...@ausil.us> wrote: > that are built at kernel build time? the issue with building it at > build time was making sure we knew exactly what sourcs we needed to > ship to match all the binaries in the initramfs. the initramfs's we > build and ship as part of teh install tree we know exactly what sources > because they match what is in the release tree rather than what was in > the buildroot at build time.
That _is_ a missing piece of the dracut/initramfs toolchain: we need something in dracut that scans what files have been included from the buildhost, finds what rpm they belong to and writes down the NEVRA into a file that goes _into_ the initramfs. Right now, it is impossible to trace back the origin of an arbitrary initramfs built by dracut. Unless you find the build host (and it hasn't changed!). At OLPC we've had a few incidents of "where the hell did you build this initramfs?" and "how can I respin this initramfs with only this patch applied, no other changes whatsoever?". cheers, m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- Software Architect - OLPC - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
