Re: [gentoo-dev] Anyone with access to genkernel repository? Or should genkernel be p.masked on amd64 profiles?

[Alexander Tsoy <alexander@tsoy.me>]

On Fri May 30 22:30:32 2014 Sven Vermeulen <swift@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 04:34:09PM +0000, hasufell wrote:
> > Tom Wijsman:
> > > 
> > > Please no p.mask for a single line being wrong...
> > > 
> > 
> > That's nonsense. The amount of wrong lines doesn't matter. A single
> > wrong line in the kernel can break your whole system as well.
> > 
> > Please p.mask (or patch) immediately. There is no point in waiting.
> 
> I'd appreciate any patch on the Gentoo Handbook to use another tool for
> initramfs. I have some experience with dracut, but the last dracut
> generated initramfs failed on my system, whereas genkernel's still goes
> well.
> 

Hmm.. You are the second person in this thread who experienced problems with latest dracut. I suspect this is due to hostonly-cmdline option, which is disabled by default. If this is really the case, we should either enable it in gentoo.conf or revert corresponding changes like in fedora [1].

And where are bug reports? :)

Sorry for offtop.

[1] http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/dracut.git/commit/?id=2fa76e2882883ea64be6c3210c257cff4e4b641a

> The last Dracut generated initramfs also failed on SELinux systems, but
> that isn't something that cannot be worked around...
> 
> Wkr,
>     Sven Vermeulen
> 

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Alexander Tsoy