sys-boot/dracut

Dracut is a modular initramfs infrastructure.

Versions

Slot	Version	Repository	Platforms
0	scm	arbor	~amd64	arm?	armv7?	armv8?	x86?
0	112	arbor	~amd64	arm?	~armv7	~armv8	~x86

Metadata

Homepage	( https://github.com/dracut-ng/dracut 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-text/asciidoctor app-text/docbook-xml-dtd:4.5 dev-libs/libxslt dev-util/elfutils sys-apps/kmod[>=23] build+run: systemd? ( sys-apps/systemd[>=257] ) 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/archive/refs/tags/112.tar.gz -> dracut-112.tar.gz
Licences	GPL-2

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systemd	Support the sd-json API for structured logging (needs systemd >=257)