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From: "Tomáš Čech" <sleep_walker@gnu.org>
To: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] linux-initrd: Introduce way to add more packages to initrd.
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2016 20:26:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160801182636.GG1062@venom> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h9b4qxnb.fsf@gnu.org>

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On Mon, Aug 01, 2016 at 06:09:12PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>Hello,
>
>Tomáš Čech <sleep_walker@gnu.org> skribis:
>
>> Ping after week - is there interest in this patch?
>
>I didn’t comment on the patch specifically because I thought my reply
>might make you change your mind.  ;-)
>
>  https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2016-07/msg01241.html

Thanks for that, I'm still trying to digest that bite. I'm sorry for
being a bit slow on Guile.

>All the packages used by the initrd are automatically part of the
>initrd.  The proposed patch would allow people to add unused packages to
>the initrd.

It is for the packages which you may want to use interactivelly in
case of failure or for some extra initrd hacking you may not want/be
able to write in Guile.

Features like
- extra authentication
- full disk encryption
- root on NFS
- LVM :)
- ...

when kernel+initrd is booted from another source.

>Could you explain how/when this would be used?  Maybe as commands for
>use by Bournish when it’s used as a rescue shell?

I agree that it is more for debugging and to balance my inability to
express it in Guile but it lowers the barrier a bit.

Bournish is too young to rely on it. I miss pipes, accessing files in
different directories or `ls' with wildcards. I can put in minimal
static busybox which is more than sufficient for rescue, problem
analysis or even data recovery.

I like the idea of Bournish but I'd rather have an alternative
until it is more capable.

And yes, it could be also used from Bournish in interactive session as
a command.

S_W

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-08-01 18:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-25  7:46 extending initrd Tomáš Čech
2016-07-25 20:10 ` [PATCH] linux-initrd: Introduce way to add more packages to initrd Tomáš Čech
2016-08-01 10:39   ` Tomáš Čech
2016-08-01 15:44     ` Andy Wingo
2016-08-02  7:43       ` extra-packages - second wave Tomáš Čech
2016-08-02  7:43         ` [PATCH 1/2] linux-initrd: Introduce way to add more packages to initrd Tomáš Čech
2016-08-02  7:43         ` [PATCH 2/2] doc: Document extra-packages argument of base-initrd Tomáš Čech
2016-08-02  8:19           ` Vincent Legoll
2016-08-01 16:09     ` [PATCH] linux-initrd: Introduce way to add more packages to initrd Ludovic Courtès
2016-08-01 18:26       ` Tomáš Čech [this message]
2016-08-02 12:53         ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-08-02 18:03           ` Tomáš Čech
2016-07-25 21:48 ` extending initrd Ludovic Courtès

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