767988 – sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel and hostonly initramfs feature

Bug 767988 - sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel and hostonly initramfs feature

Summary: sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel and hostonly initramfs feature

Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Eclasses (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal enhancement
Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers

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Reported:	2021-01-30 13:34 UTC by Andrej Filipcic
Modified:	2021-01-30 13:47 UTC (History)
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Description Andrej Filipcic 2021-01-30 13:34:17 UTC

initramfs for sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel can be rather large, ~100MB. In some cases, where the boot partition is too small, passing "--hostonly" option to dracut would be extremely useful, where initramfs is typically 15MB. 

I have around 50 systems that would need repartitioning/reinstallation otherwise. As a workaround I modified the eclass temporarily. 

Would it be possible to implement "hostonly" USE flag or something like that for gentoo-kernel ebuilds and than pass this option accordingly to dist-kernel-utils.eclass dist-kernel_build_initramfs() function?

Comment 1 Andrej Filipcic 2021-01-30 13:47:40 UTC

Actually, there is no point in doing this. dracut.conf should be better used for it. Please, ignore the bug.