Arch Linux

dracut is now in Extra; the Project should be Arch Linux, not Community Packages.

Any update about this? Hooks are already written on wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dracut#Generate_a_new_initramfs_on_kernel_upgrade
It is a nonsense, these scripts should belong with dracut package, not on a wiki page.

I suggest the args variable in dracut-install script should be sourced from a configuration file.
The configuration file could declare other variables, like path where to install kernel and initramfs (instead of hardcoding /boot).

An alternative to adding new scripts might be utilizing /usr/lib/kernel/install.d/{50-dracut.install,51-dracut-rescue.install} from upstream dracut. Those scripts can be invoked by the kernel-install command from systemd. [1] are ALPM hooks I use for invoking kernel-install.

Pros:
* Create rescue image by `dracut_rescue_image=yes|no` [2].

Cons:
* For users not using systemd-boot, 50-dracut.install uses /boot/initramfs-${KERNEL_VERSION}.img as the output filename, which is not compatible with GRUB as the latter expects the kernel (vmlinuz-XXX) and the initramfs to have the same filename suffix.

Another issue is that kernel-install runs depmod in /usr/lib/kernel/install.d/50-depmod.install, which brings duplicated work as depmod.hook already handles that [3].

[1] https://gitlab.com/yan12125/aur/-/tree/65e94a47b09bfca589fb56cccb02007d38cb8370/kernel-install-hooks
[2] https://github.com/dracutdevs/dracut/blob/050/51-dracut-rescue.install#L86
[3] https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk/depmod.hook?h=packages/kmod

EDIT: Oops I misunderstand dracut's rescue images.

EDIT 2: use the permanent URL for [1] as I plan to drop it

Just as Xorg said above. What's the ETA to "officially" include the hooks with dracut package?

Is there any plans to implement this or at least re-evaluate the priority? Since this feature request was reported dracut has now become fully supported on Arch by the abstraction of "provides=initramfs", not to mention another fully functional initramfs generator, booster, has been added to the repos. Upstream dracut now even officially supports Arch and tests it in its CI[1]. Currently, users have to use an AUR package to get full support for dracut (or booster) on Arch because there are no install hooks for rebuilding initramfs.

[1] https://github.com/dracutdevs/dracut/releases/tag/054

Hi,

It's been a year since the last comment. Is this still being considered?

Have a good day

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https://gitea.artixlinux.org/packages/dracut
https://github.com/endeavouros-team/PKGBUILDS/tree/master/eos-dracut
https://gitlab.manjaro.org/packages/extra/dracut-hook