Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Dracut HostOnly

On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 06:57:29PM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote: > >> that are built at kernel build time? the issue with building it at > >> build time was making sure we knew exactly what sourcs we needed to > >> ship to match all the binaries in the initramfs. the initramfs's we > >> build and ship as part of teh install tree we know exactly what sources > >> because they match what is in the release tree rather than what was in > >> the buildroot at build time. > > Does the kernel source RPM matching the initrd contain the necessary > > sources? > What? No. The kernel source RPM contains kernel sources. It has > nothing to do with the initramfs. It creates a dummy file with the same > name by dd'ing from /dev/zero and marks that as %ghost. The actual > initramfs is built by grubby when the kernel package is installed because > of the call to new-kernel-pkg. I kind of feel like you're just jumping in the middle here. The discussion

was about building these at kernel build time, rather than having grubby do it. Then the above would cease to be true. If we've got binary bits we can't track back to the source, I can see why legal would be concerned.