[ANNOUNCEMENT] dracut-0.3

[Peter Robinson]

>> Hi Harald,
>>
>> On Thu, 2009-07-02 at 12:59 +0200, Harald Hoyer wrote:
>>>
>>> Here it is, dracut-0.3!
>>
>> Thanks for your efforts, this is excellent.
>>
>> We've started using it for OLPC's F11 spin, including our own modules to
>> implement OLPC features. So much nicer than what we had before!
>>
>> However, the spec file already pulls in a lot of dependencies, things
>> like device-mapper and cryptsetup which we won't need. Especially for
>> XO-1 we need to work to keep images small (1GB hard disk).
>>
>> Is there any chance that this could be split up, and the more exotic
>> dependencies moved into subpackages?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Daniel
>>
>>
>
> The idea is to pregenerate a generic initrd and package it in an rpm and
> deliver it together with the kernel. There should be no need to generate the
> initrd on an X0-1 itsself.

How does this work for changing plymouth spash plugins as I seem to
remember these are installed into the initrd?

Peter