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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Tightly-coupled core distro
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On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Alec Warner <antarus@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> Debian / Ubuntu have a tool that basically does this. Its
> update-initramfs. I believe it is called from..the postinst of
> packages that are supposed to be in the initramfs? honestly I'd have
> to look up how they implemented it.
Not a bad idea, with a corresponding eselect tool to control what kind
of initramfs you have (dracut, genkernel, none,
remind-me-but-I-roll-my-own, etc). The ebuild would just call the
function, and the function would handle it accordingly.
Rich