[gentoo-soc] Dracut port - weekly progress - week 4

[gentoo-soc] Dracut port - weekly progress - week 4

[Amadeusz Żołnowski]

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Hello everyone,


Exam period still lasts, but it's starting to be better.

Last week I spend on writing new generic i18n module for Dracut. The
ready install script is posted to mailing list (at vger.kernel.org).
Here's a quote of abstract of this message:

    Different distros have variables holding keyboard settings, fonts
    and so in different files and even under different names. Sometimes
    it's “SYSFONT” in /etc/sysconfig/i18n, sometimes it's “consolefont”
    in /etc/conf.d/consolefont. I came up with idea to hold mappings in
    configuration file (dracut.conf or dracut.conf.d/«distro».conf).
    The script gathers variables and prepares two “unified” files
    inside Dracut overlay.

    The rest of the script is quite the same as redhat-i18n but some
    tweaks. Dracut uses console_init written in C included in
    initscripts RPM, but I'm gonna rewrite it in bash and then i18n
    module will be fully generic.

After i18n will be fully finished (soon :-)), I'll focus on network
stuff.

References:

    * Initramfs mailing list:
      http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-initramfs/
    * My Dracut fork repo: http://github.com/aidecoe/dracut
    * My blog: http://blog.aidecoe.name/


Cheers,
Amadeusz Żołnowski

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