Am 08.02.2010 20:09, schrieb Simon Boulay:

Hi,

(Note: I am CC'ing this to arch-dev-public. I will not resend the patches sent to me in the previous mail, you will see them when I apply them to the git. This is what happened so far: Simon stepped up and said he could implement NFS root for mkinitcpio. I pointed him to some patch on the bugtracker that someone made in the past and now he sent me patches that will make NFS support possible again)

Here is a patch which adds the support for mounting the root filesystem over NFS. ipconfig and nfsmount sources are attached. I don't how to deal with them: - make a package (like mkinitcpio-netutils) which download official klibc and add patches to build against glibc - make a sort of fork for those programs only and two packages (mkinitcpi-ipconfig + mkinitcpio-nfsmount) - ?

I would put both programs in a small "mkinitcpio-nfs-utils" package or so. I guess it will be better to maintain them in a git repository instead of downloading klibc and applying patches all the time.

ipconfig and nfsmount have to be installed in /lib/initcpio. I added a net hook based on the patch you pointed to me and modify install/net and init accordingly.

I don't have time to integrate them right now, because it is late and I can't proof-read them now. After applying your patch I will definitely change something about the logic: I was planning to provide a concept of "mount helpers" that allow you to override the default mounting procedure from inside a hook. This concept could be used for NFS root and for archiso.

Regards, Simon.

Thank you for the work, now I need to merge it and find testers. And then we can move to the release candidate stage and finally get rid of klibc once and for all.