Re: dracut-ng

[Adolf Belka <adolf.belka@ipfire.org>]

Hi Michael & all,

On 02/09/2025 16:00, Michael Tremer wrote:
> Hello Adolf,
> 
> Yes, I would be happy for you to give this a try.
> 
> Since Harald Hoyer has left RedHat, it seems that dracut has effectively been abandoned and dracut-ng is the successor with pretty much the same people contributing to it.
> 
> I did not find any breaking changes in the change log (although it seems quite extensive), so we might have a very good chance to indeed ship it as a drop-in.
> 
> Let us know what you find out during testing it :)

So I tested dracut-ng using the newest version 108. When I installed IPFire, it built my raid system, it partitioned the disk, created the filesystem, mounted them and installed the system.

Then it failed with the message Unable to install the language cache.

So I then built version 100 and it did exactly the same.

Then I thought, maybe I had commented out something in the rootfile that was needed so I did a build with all the rootfile lines uncommented.

It still failed exactly the same.

Any help or suggestions on how I can debug this would be gratefully accepted.

Regards,

Adolf.

> 
> Best,
> -Michael
> 
>> On 2 Sep 2025, at 13:13, Adolf Belka <adolf.belka@ipfire.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I was looking at packages that needed updating. I noticed that dracut was at version 056. The source for that had version 059 but that was from Dec 2022 and the last commit in that repo was Mar 2024.
>>
>> There is a new repo providing dracut-ng. Their version 100 (Apr 2024) is said to be a drop-in replacement for the original dracut. They are now at version 108 and it is being actively maintained.
>>
>> With it being said to be a drop-in replacement I thought dracut-ng looked a good candidate to test out but as dracut plays a critical role in the booting process I thought I would ask if anyone has any information to indicate that it is not worth trying it.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Adolf.
>>
>>
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