From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail02.haj.ipfire.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by mail02.haj.ipfire.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4cKPyh66ptz30BR for ; Sun, 07 Sep 2025 09:33:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail01.ipfire.org (mail01.haj.ipfire.org [172.28.1.202]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange x25519 server-signature ECDSA (secp384r1) server-digest SHA384 client-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) client-digest SHA256) (Client CN "mail01.haj.ipfire.org", Issuer "R13" (verified OK)) by mail02.haj.ipfire.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4cKPyd3ZLgz2xQc for ; Sun, 07 Sep 2025 09:33:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange x25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by mail01.ipfire.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4cKPyb6Qrfz81; Sun, 07 Sep 2025 09:33:11 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=ed25519-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=ipfire.org; s=202003ed25519; t=1757237592; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=XcYzCAfQwHlQYzSmNvFD7dscYjCinL1VLrSeyrf4h1U=; b=J9rNdNebNGcPvE8AiNtISlIOSGVfkD6yFOXjEUkqNnouys8ATTUVNIXR0Tezp3B4+GIHrR sBz0A6G3ld8jlIDw== DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=ipfire.org; s=202003rsa; t=1757237592; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=XcYzCAfQwHlQYzSmNvFD7dscYjCinL1VLrSeyrf4h1U=; b=AJb1dv8QuugKuEgP1KWB2KK3rs+vx9KF/RelZzXXrH8rvGTlnw79J29ap5rSWEbGW8qvM4 h3u1ANs84MYPuTlcsqT2mHuXdTDjdKC/H0QfGOqEqVafyw5rHqLaSPTckv+49T85a7ovqj M/KrBfTbDqfeqzBU7wy8xkE3cFJroAKh5kK46V7hkmXLd2Ud0cetEOGBtbzCs4DO/NPZmm 5at1JNZ9KdfLMu5db//9gGq1/a4Yo8vPjFWwUJHmEDEqSv6of7MZhZfWjITP7vG9JlqgMg Azs/ffoG+5w1u2eDvW3en7bYcn0ZKTtMpkpBGvfOHJ/SSIQQVskJuFFkOTaJ7Q== Message-ID: Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2025 11:33:08 +0200 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: Sender: Mail-Followup-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: dracut-ng To: Michael Tremer Cc: "IPFire: Development-List" References: <3a21931a-8ad0-40b8-b4e2-a5cbd0ac61d7@ipfire.org> <5B5EF7C9-775C-4F28-94C6-A3C8CE756AC1@ipfire.org> Content-Language: en-GB From: Adolf Belka In-Reply-To: <5B5EF7C9-775C-4F28-94C6-A3C8CE756AC1@ipfire.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 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. >> >> >