On Sun, 2020-01-05 at 07:30 +0000, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > On Sun, Jan 05, 2020 at 07:27:38AM +0100, Michał Górny wrote: > > Introduce a new eclass that contains common logic needed to test > > and install distribution kernels. This is the eclass common both > > to kernels built from source and installed from binary packages. > I'm 100% in favour of the concept here, but I have some implementation > concerns. > > For the (public) record, Infra has been wrapping genkernel to build > binary kernel + initramfs for internal usage for 5 years now. > > Conceptually, can you clarify why you are depending on dracut here, > rather than using genkernel's initramfs mode?
For a start, because dracut is not bundling all its dependencies. It's also tested outside Gentoo, so it has much wider testing than genkernel, and doesn't suffer from intermediate deaths, -next forks and total confusion over which version should be used. > I'm not sure you're going to get correct build output in cases like > x86_64 -> x86 cross-compiles. Cross-compile support is untested, and provided merely where it was clear how to do it. I'm happy to fix it later, when someone figures it out. > Why not call genkernel from the ebuild instead of re-inventing the > wheel to compile the kernel yourself. Have you read the logic and found a way to achieve all that from genkernel, without 1) losing advantages of my approach, 2) adding a huge dependency to replace 5 lines of code? -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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