[systemd-devel] [PATCH] make mention initramfs-tools in addition to dracut

shawn shawnlandden at gmail.com
Fri Jun 22 12:50:22 PDT 2012


On Fri, 2012-06-22 at 16:36 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: 
> On Fri, 22.06.12 02:21, Shawn Landden (shawnlandden at gmail.com) wrote:
> 
> > Should specific distributions be mentioned...
> > 
> > aka.. foo (used by X and derivatives).
> > 
> > bar (used by X and X and derivatives)
> 
> Hmm, so I am a bit concerned of adding a boundless list of options here
> over time, so I have now tried to make this a bit more generic, and
> added a note that people should check the initrd implementation used on
> their respective installation. I did keep the explicit reference to
> dracut in there, since in our eyes it does deserve special mention
> simply because it is the only implementaiton that integrates this
> closely with systemd, simply because it also runs systems inside of the
> initrd, and passes along journal data and so on.
> 
> This way, this is similar as the text we have in daemon(7) where I
> describe the RPM scriplet snippets to use to enable services, but
> clarify that people should look up the respective counterparts for their
> own distributions.
> 
> I hope this is acceptable,
> 
> Lennart
> 

How about putting it at the bottom of the man page, in a see also
section?
-- 
-Shawn Landden



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