On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 1:53 PM, Michael Mol <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Alec Warner <[email protected]> wrote: [snip] >> Debian uses initramfs-tools... > > AFAIK, neither genkernel nor dracut were expected to get tied to the > Gentoo update process. Has that changed?
The kernel you are running (if you update your machine) is not tied to the Gentoo update process. The *source code* gets installed, but the kernel source remains unchanged in /usr/src/whatever. It's the user responsibility to configure, compile, and install the kernel (and then update LILO, grub-legacy or GRUB2). It can be automated with (ta-da) genkernel, but it's not "tied to the Gentoo update process". I really don't see that much difference with needing to also update the initramfs, if needed. Because, besides, if your /usr is not in a different partition, you don't even *need* an initramfs. In that case not using an initramfs is supported by all upstreams. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
