linux-*: various fixes (initramfs, hooks, presets) #1962
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baltitenger
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- Depend on initramfs instead of mkinitcpio specifically to allow usage of different initramfs generators
- Remove unnecessary hook to run depmod (superseded by 60-depmod.hook)
- Remove unnecessary hook to generate initcpios (superseded by 90-mkinitcpio-install.hook)
- Remove mkinitcpio presets (now generated by 90-mkinitcpio-install.hook)
Maybe explain why this is a benefit. (ex: dracut, etc)?
Can you provide some docs for this? I didn't know this was the case. #1767 seems very related though. |
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Ah shoot, I have no clue how I missed that PR. As for docs on the depmod hook, I don't know about anything other than the contents of the hook itself. It should trigger on any change to |
- Depend on initramfs instead of mkinitcpio specifically - Remove unnecessary hook to run depmod (superseded by 60-depmod.hook) - Remove unnecessary hook to generate initcpios (superseded by 90-mkinitcpio-install.hook) - Remove mkinitcpio presets (now generated by 90-mkinitcpio-install.hook)
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What's the status of this PR? I just ran into the issue that I'm unable to remove |
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Seconding to say I'm running into this mkinitcpio dependency issue. Could it be worth while to split these changes into smaller PRs, so that some of them can be merged on their own? |
