On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 3:09 PM, Tanstaafl <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2013-08-21 2:52 PM, Neil Bothwick <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 17:56:36 +0100, thegeezer wrote: >> >>> anyone have any good pointers to an initramfs interrogator, maybe that >>> takes as argument kernel command line ? >> >> >> I posted a script fragment that compares the contents of the kernel's >> initramfs config file with the live filesystem. Dracut users could use >> the same method by parsing the output from lsinitrd. > > > My question is, why can't portage do this automatically as part of the > update process for these packages? > > Again: support for separate /usr should absolutely NOT be dropped > unless/until this process can be handled properly by portage itself. > > At an absolute bare minimum, the emerge output should advise the user > if/when they need to update their initramfs, but ideally, it should be done > automatically - automation is something that computers are good at. >
It really doesn't matter if your initramfs is out-of-date, so long as it is able to mount your filesystems and pass control along to your real system. Personally, I only update my initramfs when I update my kernel; it works out fine.
