Bug#887917: should not depend on initramfs-tools

Guido Günther agx at sigxcpu.org
Sat Feb 10 11:01:22 UTC 2018


On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 10:18:15AM +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
> On Sun, 2018-01-21 at 18:05 +0100, Thomas Lange wrote:
> > multipath-tools-boot depends on initramfs-tools instead of
> > linux-initramfs-tool. This prevents using multipath with dracut, a
> > initramfs-tools replacement. linux-initramfs-tool is provided by
> > dracut and initramfs-tools.
> 
> I don't have much experience with dracut. Is dracut a drop-in
> replacement for initramfs-tools ?
> 
> In multipath, we have many initramfs hooks that are essential.

AFAIK dracut provides multipath integration by itself:

    https://github.com/dracutdevs/dracut/tree/master/modules.d/90multipath

Cheers and thans for maintaining multipath-tools!
 -- Guido



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