tag	48164e4f732325a4fdbceb5018c1c57aa1dd5995
tagger	Harald Hoyer <harald@redhat.com>	Mon Dec 14 15:42:09 2020 +0100
object	e473057ae1de303340dec297c786c4a701cc61bd

dracut-051

dracut:
- allow running on a cross-compiled rootfs

  dracutsysrootdir is the root directory, file existence checks use it.

  DRACUT_LDCONFIG can override ldconfig with a different one that works
  on the sysroot with foreign binaries.

  DRACUT_LDD can override ldd with a different one that works
  with foreign binaries.

  DRACUT_TESTBIN can override /bin/sh. A cross-compiled sysroot
  may use symlinks that are valid only when running on the target
  so a real file must be provided that exist in the sysroot.

  DRACUT_INSTALL now supports debugging dracut-install in itself
  when run by dracut but without debugging the dracut scripts.
  E.g. DRACUT_INSTALL="valgrind dracut-install or
  DRACUT_INSTALL="dracut-install --debug".

  DRACUT_COMPRESS_BZIP2, DRACUT_COMPRESS_LBZIP2, DRACUT_COMPRESS_LZMA,
  DRACUT_COMPRESS_XZ, DRACUT_COMPRESS_GZIP, DRACUT_COMPRESS_PIGZ,
  DRACUT_COMPRESS_LZOP, DRACUT_COMPRESS_ZSTD, DRACUT_COMPRESS_LZ4,
  DRACUT_COMPRESS_CAT: All of the compression utilities may be
  overridden, to support the native binaries in non-standard places.

  DRACUT_ARCH overrides "uname -m".

  SYSTEMD_VERSION overrides "systemd --version".

  The dracut-install utility was overhauled to support sysroot via
  a new option -r and fixes for clang-analyze. It supports
  cross-compiler-ldd from
  https://gist.github.com/jerome-pouiller/c403786c1394f53f44a3b61214489e6f

  DRACUT_INSTALL_PATH was introduced so dracut-install can work with
  a different PATH. In a cross-compiled environment (e.g. Yocto), PATH
  points to natively built binaries that are not in the host's /bin,
  /usr/bin, etc. dracut-install still needs plain /bin and /usr/bin
  that are relative to the cross-compiled sysroot.

  DRACUT_INSTALL_LOG_TARGET and DRACUT_INSTALL_LOG_LEVEL were
  introduced so dracut-install can use different settings from
  DRACUT_LOG_TARGET and DRACUT_LOG_LEVEL.

- don't call fsfreeze on subvol of root file system
- Use TMPDIR (typically /run/user/$UID) if available
- dracut.sh: add check for invalid configuration files
  Emit a warning about possible misconfigured configuration files, where
  the spaces around values are missing for +=""
- dracut-functions: fix find_binary() to return full path
- dracut.sh: FIPS workaround for openssl-libs on Fedora/RHEL
- dracut.sh: fix early microcode detection logic
- dracut.sh: fix ia32 detection for uefi executables
- dracut.sh: Add --version
- dracut.sh: Add --hostonly-nics option
- EFI Mode: only write kernel cmdline to UEFI binary
- Allow $DRACUT_INSTALL to be not an absolute path
- Don't print when a module is explicitly omitted (by default)
- Remove uses of bash (and bash specific syntax) in runtime scripts
- dracut-init.sh: Add a helper for detect device kernel modules
- dracut-functions.sh: Fix check_block_and_slaves_all
- dracut-functions.sh: add a helper to check if kernel module is available

Documentation
- dracut.cmdline.7.asc: clarify usage of `rd.lvm.vg` and `rd.lvm.lv`
- dracut.conf.5.asc: document how to config --no-compress in the config
- fix CI badges in README.md and fix dracut description
- dracut.modules.7.asc: fix typos
- dracut.modules.7.asc: fix reference to insmodpost module
- Add --version to man page
- Adding code of conduct
- Document initqueue/online hook

dracut-install:
- install: also install post weak dependencies of kernel modules
- install: Globbing support for resolving "firmware:"

mkinitrd:
- use vmlinux regex for ppc*, vmlinuz for i686

mkinitrd-suse:
- fix i586 platform detection

modules:

00systemd:
- skip dependency add for non-existent units
- add missing cryptsetup-related targets

05busybox:
- simplify listing of supported utilities

06rngd:
- install dependant libs too
- Do not start inside container

10i18n:
- i18n: Always install /etc/vconsole.conf

35network-legacy:
- dhclient-script: Fix typo in output of  BOUND & BOUND6 cases
- simplify fallback dhcp setup

35network-manager:
- ensure that nm-run.sh is executed when needed
- install libnss DNS and mDNS plugins
- always pull in machinery to read ifcfg files
- set kernel hostname from the command line
- move connection generation to a lib file

40network:
- fix glob matching ipv6 addresses
- net-lib.sh: support infiniband network mac addresses

45url-lib:
- drop NSS if it's not in curl --version

80cms:
- regenerate NetworkManager connections

90btrfs:
- force preload btrfs module
- Install crypto modules in 90kernel-modules

90crypt:
- cryptroot-ask: no warn if /run/cryptsetup exist
- install crypto modules in 90kernel-modules
- try to catch kernel config changes
- fix force on multiple lines
- pull in remote-cryptsetup.target enablement
- cryptroot-ask: unify /etc/crypttab and rd.luks.key

90dmsquash-live:
- iso-scan.sh: Provide an easy reference to iso-scan device

90kernel-modules:
- remove nfit from static module list (see nvdimm module)
- install crypto modules in 90kernel-modules
- add sg kernel module
- add pci_hyperv
- install block drivers more strictly
- install less modules for hostonly mode
- arm: add drivers/hwmon for arm/arm64

90kernel-network-modules
- on't install iscsi related module (use 95iscsi)

90lvm:
- remove unnecessary ${initdir} from lvm_scan.sh
- fix removal of pvscan from udev rules
- do not add newline to cmdline

90multipath:
- add automatic configuration for multipath
  (adds 'rd.multipath=default' to use the default config)
- install kpartx's 11-dm-parts.rules

90nvdimm:
- new module for NVDIMM support

90ppcmac:
- respect DRACUT_ARCH, don't exclude ppcle

90qemu-net:
- in hostonly mode, only install if network is needed
- install less module for strict hostonly mode

91zipl:
- parse-zipl.sh: honor SYSTEMD_READY

95cifs:
- pass rootflags to mount
- install new softdeps (sha512, gcm, ccm, aead2)

95dasd:
- only install /etc/dasd.conf if present

95dcssblk:
- fix script permissions

95fcoe:
- fix pre-trigger stage by replacing exit with return in lldpad.sh
- default rd.nofcoe to false
- don't install if there is no FCoE hostonly devices

95iscsi:
- fix missing space when compiling cmdline args
- fix ipv6 target discovery

95nfs:
- only install rpc services for NFS < 4 when hostonly is strict
- Change the order of NFS servers during the boot
  (next-server option has higher priority than DHCP-server itself)
- install less module if hostonly mode is strict

95nvmf:
- add module for NVMe-oF
- add NVMe over TCP support

95resume:
- do not resume on iSCSI, FCoE or NBD

95rootfs-block:
- mount-root.sh: fix writing fstab file with missing fsck flag
- only write root argument for block device

95zfcp:
- match simplified rd.zfcp format too

95zfcp_rules:
- parse-zfcp.sh: remove rule existence check

95znet:
- add a rd.znet_ifname= option

98dracut-systemd:
- remove memtrace-ko and rd.memdebug=4 support in dracut
- remove cleanup_trace_mem calls
- dracut-initqueue: Print more useful info in case of timeout
- as of v246 of systemd "syslog" and "syslog-console" switches have been deprecated
- don't wait for root device if remote cryptsetup active

99base:
- dracut-lib.sh: quote variables in parameter expansion patterns
- remove memtrace-ko and rd.memdebug=4 support in dracut
- remove cleanup_trace_mem calls
- see new module 99memstrack
- prevent creating unexpected files on the host when running dracut

99memstrack:
- memstrack is a new tool to track the overall memory usage and
  allocation, which can help off load the improve the builtin module
  memory tracing function in dracut.

99squash:
- don't hardcode the squash sub directories
- improve pre-requirements check
- check require module earlier, and properly

new modules:
- nvmf
- watchdog-modules
- dbus
- network-wicked

removed modules:
- stratis

test suite:
- use dd from /dev/zero, instead of creating files with a hole
- TEST-03-USR-MOUNT/test.sh: increase loglevel
- TEST-12-RAID-DEG/create-root.sh: more udevadm settle
- TEST-35-ISCSI-MULTI: bump disk space
- TEST-41-NBD-NM/Makefile: should be based on TEST-40-NBD not TEST-20-NFS
- TEST-99: exclude /etc/dnf/* from check

commit	e473057ae1de303340dec297c786c4a701cc61bd	[log] [tgz]
author	Daniel Molkentin <dmolkentin@suse.com>	Wed Aug 05 17:27:16 2020 +0200
committer	Harald Hoyer <harald@hoyer.xyz>	Mon Dec 14 15:34:35 2020 +0100
tree	88ce2a134c95387dd1ff17250c716c830ddcfca0
parent	b3e55bde30b8d34c7ed888794ef3f5e9f028b267 [diff]

Update AUTHORS, NEWS

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README.md

dracut

dracut is an event driven initramfs infrastructure.

dracut (the tool) is used to create an initramfs image by copying tools and files from an installed system and combining it with the dracut framework, usually found in /usr/lib/dracut/modules.d.

Unlike other implementations, dracut hard-codes as little as possible into the initramfs. The initramfs has (basically) one purpose in life -- getting the rootfs mounted so that we can transition to the real rootfs. This is all driven off of device availability. Therefore, instead of scripts hard-coded to do various things, we depend on udev to create device nodes for us and then when we have the rootfs‘s device node, we mount and carry on. This helps to keep the time required in the initramfs as little as possible so that things like a 5 second boot aren’t made impossible as a result of the very existence of an initramfs.

Most of the initramfs generation functionality in dracut is provided by a bunch of generator modules that are sourced by the main dracut script to install specific functionality into the initramfs. They live in the modules.d subdirectory, and use functionality provided by dracut-functions to do their work.

Some general rules for writing modules:

Use one of the inst family of functions to actually install files on to the initramfs. They handle mangling the pathnames and (for binaries, scripts, and kernel modules) installing dependencies as appropriate so you do not have to.
Scripts that end up on the initramfs should be POSIX compliant. dracut will try to use /bin/dash as /bin/sh for the initramfs if it is available, so you should install it on your system -- dash aims for strict POSIX compliance to the extent possible.
Hooks MUST be POSIX compliant -- they are sourced by the init script, and having a bashism break your user's ability to boot really sucks.
Generator modules should have a two digit numeric prefix -- they run in ascending sort order. Anything in the 90-99 range is stuff that dracut relies on, so try not to break those hooks.
Hooks must have a .sh extension.
Generator modules are described in more detail in README.modules.
We have some breakpoints for debugging your hooks. If you pass ‘rdbreak’ as a kernel parameter, the initramfs will drop to a shell just before switching to a new root. You can pass ‘rdbreak=hookpoint’, and the initramfs will break just before hooks in that hookpoint run.

Also, there is an attempt to keep things as distribution-agnostic as possible. Every distribution has their own tool here and it's not something which is really interesting to have separate across them. So contributions to help decrease the distro-dependencies are welcome.

Currently dracut lives on github.com and kernel.org.

The tarballs can be found here: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/dracut/ ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/dracut/

Git: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/boot/dracut/dracut.git http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/boot/dracut/dracut.git https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/boot/dracut/dracut.git

git@github.com:dracutdevs/dracut.git

Git Web: https://github.com/dracutdevs/dracut.git

    http://git.kernel.org/?p=boot/dracut/dracut.git

Project Documentation: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/dracut/dracut.html

Project Wiki: http://dracut.wiki.kernel.org

See the TODO file for things which still need to be done and HACKING for some instructions on how to get started. There is also a mailing list that is being used for the discussion -- initramfs@vger.kernel.org. It is a typical vger list, send mail to majordomo@vger.kernel.org with body of ‘subscribe initramfs email@host.com’

Licensed under the GPLv2