Re: [PATCH] dracut: Update to 056

[alf@i100.no]

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Hi

Regarding the new modules that have been added to dracut after v38, and 
the possible
systemd dependencies, I wonder a bit about this line in the Makefile of 
dracut in ipfire

https://github.com/ipfire/ipfire-2.x/blob/master/lfs/dracut#L79
rm -rf 
/usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/*{biosdevname,bootchart,dash,fips*,modsign,busybox,convertfs,network,ifcfg,url-lib,gensplash,cms,plymouth,btrfs,crypt*,dm,dmraid,dmsquash-live,livenet,lvm,multipath,qemu*,cifs,dasd*,fcoe*,iscsi,nbd,nfs,resume,ssh-client,zfcp*,systemd*,znet,securityfs,masterkey,selinux,usrmount,uefi-lib}

I am assuming that is removing dracut modules that one for certain do 
not need.
I guess some of the new modules introduced between v38 and v56(current) 
of dracut
should also be but on that "rm" list ?
I.e some new dracut modules depends on systemd, and some are for s390, 
for example.


I was playing a bit with grep'ing the module-setup.sh files of dracut, 
to find modules
that depends on systemd for example.
I.e. some way of finding the modules that "at least" should be put on 
the "rm" list.
I'm unsure if you have any semi automatic way of doing that, or are 
fully manually needing
to review the modules.

 From what I can see, dracut should fully support being used without 
systemd, since the modules
are signalling dependencies on systemd.
But modules that are only for s390 for example, needs to be detected 
manually I think.


The dracut.conf file also has the possibility to omit modules, by the
omit_dracutmodules variable, but that does not seem to be used currently 
by ipfire.

Regards
Alf