dracut: Update to v103 and add patches #199
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Switch to the dracut-ng fork which is maintained. Add several patches of note: - Invalidate depmod index module. Used for initrd extension - Skip firmware installation in initrd. Used for linux-firmware initrd extension - Skip hwcaps directories when processing libs. Ensures that built initrds are usable on machines with a lower ISA than supported by hwcaps - Stateless ldconfig configuration - De-compress kbd files prior to initrd creation. Improves initrd compression ratio Signed-off-by: Reilly Brogan <[email protected]>
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| - binary(cpio) | |||
| - terminus-font | |||
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| %patch %(pkgdir)/patches/downstream/0001-Add-module-to-invalidate-depmod-index.patch | |||
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This seems Solus specific not sure where/how it integrates into Serpent atm. Any upstream tracking bug for this in dracut-ng?
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This provides the functionality that we talked about where depmod is ran in the initrd when an initrd extension is present with kernel modules. Without this the addon kernel modules will not be available which defeats the purpose of having initrd modules in the first place.
| %patch %(pkgdir)/patches/downstream/0001-Support-stateless-glibc-ldconfig-configuration.patch | ||
| %patch %(pkgdir)/patches/downstream/0003-Exclude-unwanted-paths-from-initrd-creation.patch | ||
| %patch %(pkgdir)/patches/downstream/0004-Downstream-De-compress-kbd-files.patch | ||
| %patch %(pkgdir)/patches/downstream/0001-Allow-for-skipping-firmware-installation.patch |
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Also seems Solus specific, would be nice to get an upstream bug in dracut-ng to track progress
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Not really a point tbh I'm not sure of any distro that is taking this approach with the initrd.
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I'm quite nervous about this patch in particular. Note strncat is preferred and errors checked.
Also note strstr returns a pointer within existing memory whether allocated or not. This one is returning existing memory or newly allocated memory which seems like its going to explode or cause leaks.
Switch to the dracut-ng fork which is maintained. Add several patches of note: