On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 6:53 PM, Matthew Miller
<mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 05:22:00PM -0600, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> > 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.
Does the kernel source RPM matching the initrd contain the necessary
sources?
What? No. The kernel source RPM contains kernel sources. It has
nothing to do with the initramfs. It creates a dummy file with the same
name by dd'ing from /dev/zero and marks that as %ghost. The actual
initramfs is built by grubby when the kernel package is installed because
of the call to new-kernel-pkg.
josh