Re: [PATCH] initrd-generic.img -> dracut.img

[Jon Masters <jcm redhat com>]

On Wed, 2009-09-09 at 19:38 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 09/09/2009 05:14 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > Hans de Goede (hdegoede redhat com) said:
> >> We're moving back to %post generation of dracut initrd's due to
> >> GPL concerns about shipping pre build initrd's. This means the initrd
> >> will no longer be truely generic. To reflect this and make clear it is
> >> not an mkinitrd initrd, the name was changes to simply dracut.img.
> >
> > Even with regeneration in %post, it can still be generic, yes?
> >
> 
> Yes and it will be, but dracut was split in dracut and dracut-network,
> and the normal generated initrd will be able to boot anything except
> for things like iscsi FCoE or / on nfs, that requires having dracut-network
> installed when the initrd is generated, so it is less generic then it
> was, but still may more generic then mkinitrd generated initrd's
> (this saves dragging in quite a few deps, as we now need dracut
>   runtime, and also is a nice safe on the initrd image size)

We still get two images generated, right? Or is it now just one larger
initrd that is also "generic"?

Jon.