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taggerHarald Hoyer <harald@redhat.com>Tue Feb 16 08:26:41 2021 +0100
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dracut-052

- **dracut:**
  - allow overriding the systemctl command for sysroot with `$SYSTEMCTL` for cross compilation
  - add additional global variables

     Variables like `dbusconfdir` or `systemdnetwork` are now exported
     to the individual modules as global variables. If they are not set
     in the distribution dracut config files, they are set via `pkg-config`

  - A `--no-uefi` option as been added to the CLI options to disable a default `uefi=yes`
    set by a configuration file.

- **kernel-modules:**  add modules from `drivers/memory` for arm
- **network-legacy:**  send dhcp in parallel on all devices via the `single-dhcp` option
- **dbus:**  introduce a meta module for dbus
- **dbus-broker:**  introduce the dbus-broker module
- **dbus-daemon:**  introduce the dbus-daemon module
- **systemd-ask-password:**  introduce the systemd-ask-password module
- **systemd-coredump:**  introduce the systemd-coredump module
- **systemd-modules-load:**  introduce the systemd-modules-load module
- **systemd-repart:**  introduce the systemd-repart module
- **systemd-sysctl:**  introduce the systemd-sysctl module
- **systemd-sysusers:** introduce the systemd-sysuser module

-   first round of shellcheck for all shell scripts
-   revise all module checks to not error out about missing dependencies
-   use the top-level `/efi` path to address the EFI partition
-   correct the squash quirk
-   use `find_binary` instead of other methods, because `find_binary` honors `dracutsysrootdir`
-   quote globbing in module-setup.sh for `inst_multiple`
-   move ldconfig after library workaround
-   do not set cmdline for uefi images unless asked
- **dracut:**  don't override `PATH`, if `dracutsysrootdir` is set
- **dracut-functions.sh:**  check kernel config from `dracutsysrootdir`
- **dracut-init.sh:**  make inst_libdir_file work with `dracutsysrootdir` set
- **dracut-install:**  allow globbing for multiple sources
- **06dbus:**
  -  do not hardcode path to dbus utils
  -  do not hardcode path to systemd unit
- **uefi**  use efivars fs over the deprecated sysfs entries
- **keyring**  adding shared keyring mode to systemd unit `dracut-pre-pivot.service`
- **35network-manager:**  avoid restarting NetworkManager
- **90kernel-modules:**  install generic crypto modules with hostonly unset
- **99squash:**  use kernel config instead of modprobe to check modules
- **dbus-daemon:**  use uid/gid from sysroot if `dracutsysrootdir` is set
- **kernel-modules:**  add reset controllers for arm
- **kernel-network-modules:**  also install modules from mdio subdirectory
- **mdraid:**
  -  remove the `offroot` option (long deprecated)
  -  add the grow continue service `mdadm-grow-continue`
- **network-legacy:**  silent the check for dhcp leaseinfo
- **network-manager:**  allow override network manager version
- **plymouth:**  install binaries with dependencies
- **shutdown:**  add timeout to umount calls
- **watchdog:**  fix dependencies in `module-setup.sh`

- Harald Hoyer <harald@redhat.com>
- Jóhann B. Guðmundsson <johannbg@gmail.com>
- Zoltán Böszörményi <zboszor@pr.hu>
- Alexey Shabalin <shaba@altlinux.org>
- Daniel Molkentin <daniel.molkentin@suse.com>
- Luiz Angelo Daros de Luca <luizluca@gmail.com>
- Mariusz Tkaczyk <mariusz.tkaczyk@linux.intel.com>
- Alexander Tsoy <alexander@tsoy.me>
- Anjali Kulkarni <anjali.k.kulkarni@oracle.com>
- Beniamino Galvani <bgalvani@redhat.com>
- David Tardon <dtardon@redhat.com>
- Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
- Kairui Song <kasong@redhat.com>
- Lukas Nykryn <lnykryn@redhat.com>
- Matthew Thode <mthode@mthode.org>
- Nicolas Chauvet <kwizart@gmail.com>
- Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzjulienne@suse.de>
- Ondrej Mosnacek <omosnace@redhat.com>
- Peter Levine <plevine457@gmail.com>
- Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
- Vladius25 <vkorol2509@icloud.com>
- Yang Liu <50459973+ly4096x@users.noreply.github.com>
- foopub <45460217+foopub@users.noreply.github.com>
- realtime-neil <neil@rtr.ai>
commit3fce68bd1d8857ff35e33a572459c12a5092148a[log] [tgz]
authorHarald Hoyer <harald@redhat.com>Mon Feb 15 15:58:57 2021 +0100
committerHarald Hoyer <harald@hoyer.xyz>Mon Feb 15 17:30:54 2021 +0100
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README.md

dracut

dracut is an event driven initramfs infrastructure.

Contributor Covenant Fedora-32 Fedora-33 Fedora-latest

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.

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: 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 github issue tracker for things which still need to be done and HACKING.md 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