sys-boot/dracut

Dracut is a modular initramfs infrastructure.

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Slot Version Repository Platforms
0 scm arbor ~amd64 arm? armv7? armv8? x86?
106 arbor ~amd64 arm? ~armv7 ~armv8 ~x86

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Homepage (
    https://github.com/dracut-ng/dracut-ng
    https://dracut.wiki.kernel.org/
)
Summary Dracut is a modular initramfs infrastructure.
Description Unlike existing initramfs's, this is an attempt at having as little as possible hard-coded into the initramfs as possible. The initramfs has (basically) one purpose in life -- getting the rootfs mounted so that we can transition to the real rootfs. This is all driven off of device availability. Therefore, instead of scripts hard-coded to do various things, we depend on udev to create device nodes for us and then when we have the rootfs's device node, we mount and carry on. This helps to keep the time required in the initramfs as little as possible so that things like a 5 second boot aren't made impossible as a result of the very existence of an initramfs. It's likely that we'll grow some hooks for running arbitrary commands in the flow of the script, but it's worth trying to resist the urge as much as we can as hooks are guaranteed to be the path to slow-down. Also, there is an attempt to keep things as distribution-agnostic as possible.
Upstream documentation https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/dracut/dracut.html
Dependencies (
    build:
    app-doc/asciidoc
    app-text/docbook-xml-dtd:4.5
    dev-libs/libxslt
    dev-util/elfutils
    sys-apps/kmod[>=23]
    run:
    app-shells/bash[>=4.0]
    virtual/pkg-config
    sys-apps/coreutils[xattr]
    sys-apps/util-linux[>=2.21]
    test:
    app-shells/dash
    recommendation:
    sys-process/procps
    suggestion:
    app-arch/pigz
    app-crypt/gnupg
    app-shells/dash
    net-fs/cifs-utils
    net-fs/nfs-utils
    net-misc/open-iscsi
    net-nds/rpcbind
    sys-boot/plymouth
    sys-fs/btrfs-progs
    sys-fs/cryptsetup
    sys-fs/lvm2
    sys-fs/multipath-tools
    sys-fs/squashfs-tools
    net-misc/bridge-utils
    net-misc/iputils
    sys-apps/iproute2
    sys-apps/keyutils
    sys-apps/net-tools
    sys-libs/libcap
    virtual/syslog
)
Downloads https://github.com/dracut-ng/dracut-ng/archive/106.tar.gz -> dracut-ng-106.tar.gz
Licences GPL-2