On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Alec Warner <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 8:25 PM, Michael Mol <[email protected]> wrote:
[snip] >> To me, it looks a lot like what once was / is now expected to be an >> initramfs, which I find extraordinarily problematic, for the following >> reasons: >> >> 1) There are no truly mature tools for automatically generating and >> installing an initramfs based on system requirements. Canek likes to >> recommend dracut, which still isn't marked stable. I've gotten stable >> genkernel to work reasonably, but its error reporting is terrible. >> 2) There's no good means for applying software and security updates to >> an initramfs. If having an initramfs is to be considered the new >> normal, there should be some means of updating it as part of routine >> system updates. > > Debian uses initramfs-tools... AFAIK, neither genkernel nor dracut were expected to get tied to the Gentoo update process. Has that changed? -- :wq
