[Mageia-dev] New Dracut: Please test

Tue Feb 21 17:07:23 CET 2012

On 21 February 2012 15:26, Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
+> Possibly just that sound-scripts actually needs a require on
+> libalsa-data which at very least provides the alsa sound profile which
+> would make that snd-oss.conf symlink exist....
+>
+> I'd guess that the link to the "current" sound profile symlink is
+> missing and thus that file goes nowhere.... Can you check the ordering
+> to see when libalsa-data was installed - I'm guessing later than 224...
+
+There's no libalsa* when testing basesystem + kernel with no suggests
+(actually even with suggests it's not pulled in)
+
+> Also not sure about makedev... how important is that these days with
+> udev and the like? Is it just for the /dev/mem issue? If so can we find
+> where it's used and factor it out if it's not available? AFAICT it's not
+> in dracut, so I'm guessing somewhere in out bootloader scripts?
+
+Well it's cheap (small & fast).
+It's used as in "required by basesystem-minimal (and also a couple
+other packages) and automagically creating /dev/* nodes in %post)"
+
+>   224/273: kernel-desktop-3.2.6-3.mga2
+>>                                  #############################################
+>> Cannot find a boot loader installed. Only taking care of initrd
+>> /dev/mem: No such file or directory
+>
+> I guess this is why makedev is wanted?
+
+yep.
+Though this is not an issue within drakx (see below).
+Just when playing with urpmi --urpmi-root which is seldom
+used for real live systems
+
+>> grep: /etc/sysconfig/keyboard: No such file or directory
+>> grep: /etc/sysconfig/keyboard: No such file or directory
+>> E: No KEYMAP.
+>
+> Hmmm, looks like it's missing some -f checks here...
+
+Indeed since this one won't exist until someone run keyboardrake
+(within drakx, this is not an issue of course as drakx takes care of
+creating the devices prior installing packages)
+Now that we use udev, we could even just bind mounting /dev
+on /mnt/dev in drakx.
+
+But for consistency, we should install makedev prior to the kernel...
+