On Fri, 2015-01-23 at 00:58 -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
Adam Williamson composed on 2015-01-22 18:39 (UTC-0800):
> On Thu, 2015-01-22 at 21:21 -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
> > Not mounting as boot a partition containing kernels and/or
> > initrds in its
> > root I could understand and agree with, but not forced
> > reformatting.
> As things stand anaconda just doesn't have this degree of
> precision. I think I'm right in saying nothing in anaconda looks
> at the actual contents of existing partitions at all. It just
> knows whether there's already a filesystem on the device, and
> whether you're reformatting it.
Even so, I don't understand what the problem is that dracut can't be
limited
to producing images based on /lib/modules, name matches to the
installing
arch, whatever is in the list of packages Anaconda has selected to
install,
or some other kind of matching.
None of the easy ones are entirely reliable, and none of the reliable
ones are particularly easy. anaconda does not in fact have a concept
of 'all the files I am installing', except in live installs. Well, it
could theoretically do a sort of 'rpm -ql' on every package it had
installed, but that's unwieldy and extremely slow. We went through all
the others in #anaconda yesterday, for all of them there's either a
reason it's not easy to do or a use case it doesn't cover...there are
some candidates that might be 'good enough', but it was one of those
things where everything was sufficiently annoying/difficult that it
triggered someone's 'why do we let this happen in the first place'
reflex.
Right, but I recall nothing in FHS that says an admin should have no
right
I really hate this phrasing of things in terms of 'rights', we're not
talking about rights, we're talking about the behaviour of software.
No-one's inflicting on anyone else's human rights, here. We're just
trying to make software that works as well as possible.
FWIW, something is putting "theme" files in /boot even though what
the theme
is for is not installed. Why aren't theme files for the bootloader
among the
places other things that use themes expect to find them?
I've no idea what you're talking about here, I'm afraid...
But, I
do on
occasion have use for the content I put on it both before and after
the first
OS installation, as well as while the first is the only, regardless
of where
it's mounted.
OK, so the case for you is that you have a process where you stick
some bits in a partition that you then want to mount as /boot...they
don't really *have* to be there, but it's a configuration you're
accustomed to using?
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