Re: [gentoo-dev] initrd

[Chris PeBenito <pebenito@gentoo.org>]

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Well I've been playing with initrd all day, and I came to the conclusion
that its not worth the effort try to create an in-house mkinitrd (at
least for me to do it).  So I'll put it in as sys-apps/mkinitrd, and add
an optional selinux patch to it.  I pulled it myself from the rawhide
src rpm I got from rpmfind.net.  What is the preferred/correct way of
handling this?  Should I have the ebuild pull the src.rpm and do the
rpm2targz magic in src_unpack, or should I just extract the tarball from
it myself, and put it on distfiles?

On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 12:12, Robin H.Johnson wrote:
> I started on some of this before, when I almost needed an initrd for
> some boxes (due to crappy hardware, i ended up buying some 3ware raid
> controllers instead).
> 
> Based on how redhat packages it, I'd suggest a mkinitrd package that
> pulls in their srpm (from their RawHide sources as the latest contains a
> number of fixed wrt lvm and other things), and builds /sbin/mkinitrd,
> /sbin/nash, /sbin/grubby.
> 
> As you note that you are not willing to maintain the mkinitrd ebuild, if
> you do put it in, I'm willing to maintain it.
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Chris PeBenito
<pebenito@gentoo.org>
Developer, SELinux
Hardened Gentoo Linux
 
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