[Mageia-dev] RFC: Drop mkinitrd completely in favour of dracut.

Fri Dec 2 12:28:04 CET 2011

Hi,
+
+Just a suggestion! Should we move wholesale to dracut?
+
+It's very easy to hack on, and Harald Hoyer has been very helpful and
+has merged some of the patches we carried locally (which I mostly copied
+from Mandriva). Not sure why they were not upstreamed before.
+
+There are still a couple patches we carry locally (soon to be less when
+Harald pushes his git repo and I rebase), but they are pretty trivial,
+understandable and easily maintainable (mostly they will be stylistic
+tweaks and naming variations - i.e. very minor).
+
+Modprobe rules are included even in the initrd so tweaks there follow
+through.
+
+I'm not necessarily against keeping mkinitrd, but I think we should take
+the time from now until the beta phase to obsolte mkinitrd and force
+everyone to use dracut in order to see if there are any issues and then
+make the call before next beta or rc.
+
+WDYT?
+
+Col
+
+
+
+-- 
+
+Colin Guthrie
+colin(at)mageia.org
+http://colin.guthr.ie/
+
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