[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] mkinitcpio 0.6 alpha - testing and help needed

[Uli Armbruster]

* Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org> [02.02.2010 19:13]:
> Am 24.01.2010 18:05, schrieb Thomas Bächler:
> > Quoted from http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/17298 (which is also to be
> > used for feedback, besides the threads on these mailing lists):
> > 
> > So, now something can be tested. I recommend using it in conjunction
> > with testing/udev only:
> > 
> > [kill-klibc]
> > Server = http://dev.archlinux.org/~thomas/kill-klibc/i686/
> > 
> > or
> > 
> > [kill-klibc]
> > Server = http://dev.archlinux.org/~thomas/kill-klibc/x86_64/
> > 
> > The standard hooks work, so do keymap, lvm2, encrypt. What does NOT work
> > is raid/mdadm/dmraid and root on NFS. I would appreciate any input and
> > patches w.r.t. those, as well as any testing. The v86d package also
> > needs to be fixed, but that is trivial.
> > 
> > device-mapper, lvm2 and cryptsetup have a weird "1.local" pkgrel so they
> > won't collide with the ones from the repo, sorry if that bothers anyone.
> > 
> > If you upgrade to this repositories, your existing mkinitcpio will be
> > replaced and all klibc packages will be gone too. So, if you try it,
> > please save your existing initramfs to a different filename as a
> > fallback, and do not perform kernel upgrades until you either confirmed
> > that it works, or downgraded to the klibc-based mkinitcpio.
> 
> Bump! Virtually nobody has performed any testing (except the people I
> poked about it). Also, I still don't have fixed raid or dmraid hooks,
> nor any suggestion for implementing root on NFS (of the last three, I
> use neither). I could write raid, but I have no idea if it will work. I
> don't know what exactly needs to be done in the NFS case, because that
> was all hidden inside "ipconfig" from klibc.
> 
> The part that works (standard hooks, keymap, cryptsetup, lvm2) has been
> 100% stable and has worked perfectly for all of the testers so far
> (which aren't many, so you never know).
> 
> Note that the klibc-based mkinitcpio has problems which will never be
> fixed (because I can't fix them, or don't want to fix them), some of
> which are already fixed in the 0.6 branch.
> 
> One example is the lack of vfat detection in fstype, which affects
> people who want to put archiso on vfat volumes - this is no problem
> because we use blkid now. I am sure there are more examples.
> I simply refuse to put more time into something that is entirely broken
> and can't even be rebuilt against our current kernel headers (yes, the
> last time klibc was successfully rebuilt was against 2.6.29 iirc, the
> version I built against 2.6.31 works on x86_64, but not on i686).
> 

Grützi

I use your kill-klibc repo on i686 and I just want to confirm, that it works with

% cat /etc/mkinitcpio.conf
MODULES=""
HOOKS="base udev pata uresume filesystems"

No problems so far, except http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Udev#Auto_mounting_USB_devices don't work anymore, this worked with the packages from the official repos. I have to find another nice way to automount my drives without hal, but that's another topic.

Greetz
Army