Bug#720081: Install file trigger for /usr/share/initramfs-tools

Hi Michael, the status is unchanged. Since I never did anything using triggers, I do not feel competent writing it for dracut. So, this is a request for help. And I'm happy to include a patch. Maybe Ben has an idea how to do this properly. -- regards Thomas

Bug#720081: Install file trigger for /usr/share/initramfs-tools

On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 15:40:42 +0200 Thomas Lange wrote: > > On Sun, 18 Aug 2013 13:04:18 +0200, Michael Biebl > > said: > > > That's why I suggest to install a dpkg file trigger for > > /usr/share/initramfs-tools and update the

Bug#720081: Install file trigger for /usr/share/initramfs-tools

On Sun, 2015-08-30 at 16:23 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: Control: retitle -1 Add support for dpkg triggers Control: block 739464 by -1 Am 21.08.2013 um 15:40 schrieb Thomas Lange: On Sun, 18 Aug 2013 13:04:18 +0200, Michael Biebl bi...@debian.org said: That's why I

Bug#720081: Install file trigger for /usr/share/initramfs-tools

Control: retitle -1 Add support for dpkg triggers Control: block 739464 by -1 Am 21.08.2013 um 15:40 schrieb Thomas Lange: On Sun, 18 Aug 2013 13:04:18 +0200, Michael Biebl bi...@debian.org said: That's why I suggest to install a dpkg file trigger for /usr/share/initramfs-tools

Bug#720081: Install file trigger for /usr/share/initramfs-tools

Am 30.08.2015 um 16:38 schrieb Ben Hutchings: On Sun, 2015-08-30 at 16:23 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: initramfs-tools has the same problem. Right now, individual packages update the initramfs by calling update-initramfs -u in their maintainer scipts. I think it would be preferable, if

Bug#720081: Install file trigger for /usr/share/initramfs-tools

Thomas Lange la...@informatik.uni-koeln.de wrote: I think the proper way is to add a dracut trigger to all packages that may add some stuff to initrd whether this is generated by initramfs-tools or dracut. How would such a trigger look like? The default dracut command without arguments won't

Bug#720081: Install file trigger for /usr/share/initramfs-tools

Am 21.08.2013 15:40, schrieb Thomas Lange: On Sun, 18 Aug 2013 13:04:18 +0200, Michael Biebl bi...@debian.org said: That's why I suggest to install a dpkg file trigger for /usr/share/initramfs-tools and update the initramfs whenever a package drops a initramfs-tools hook in

Bug#720081: Install file trigger for /usr/share/initramfs-tools

On Sun, 18 Aug 2013 13:04:18 +0200, Michael Biebl bi...@debian.org said: That's why I suggest to install a dpkg file trigger for /usr/share/initramfs-tools and update the initramfs whenever a package drops a initramfs-tools hook in there. I think the proper way is to add a dracut

Bug#720081: Install file trigger for /usr/share/initramfs-tools

On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 15:56:16 +0200, Michael Biebl bi...@debian.org said: How would a third party package know that it needs to trigger dracut (to update the initramfs)? I think the same way it does this for initramfs-tools. Those packages must add dracut support. That said, you

Bug#720081: Install file trigger for /usr/share/initramfs-tools

Package: dracut Version: 031-2 Severity: normal Hi, dracut uses a different approach then initramfs-tools and bundles most of its functionality in dracut itself while initramfs-tools moves the logic into the separate packages, like e.g. lvm2 or mdadm. When I install dracut, dracut wants to