Should installkernel be passing --dracut to new-kernel-pkg?

Matt Domsch Matt_Domsch at dell.com
Sun Oct 25 23:36:32 UTC 2009


On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 08:48:03AM -0400, Stephen Smalley wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> /sbin/installkernel doesn't pass --dracut to /sbin/new-kernel-pkg, so a
> make install from a kernel.org kernel tree tries to
> invoke /sbin/mkinitrd rather than dracut.  Is that intentional?

Don't know if it's intentional, probably an oversite, but I did get
bitten by this last week myself.

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Matt Domsch
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