On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 1:25 AM, Matthew Garrett <mjg59(a)srcf.ucam.org> wrote:
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 05:22:00PM -0600, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 16:32:12 +0000
> Matthew Garrett <mjg59(a)srcf.ucam.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 09:53:32AM -0600, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> > > as legal has said we cannot pregenerate initramfses i think this
> > > should be a non-starter.
> >
> > We already ship several pre-generated initramfses.
> >
>
> that are built at kernel build time? the issue with building it at
> build time was making sure we knew exactly what sourcs we needed to
> ship to match all the binaries in the initramfs. the initramfs's we
> build and ship as part of teh install tree we know exactly what sources
> because they match what is in the release tree rather than what was in
> the buildroot at build time.
Yeah ok that case is a problem.
Not really. We use a chroot for builds you can look at root.log to see
which packages where present at buildtime so we know the sources that
are needed.
Does not really sound like a hard problem to me.