[arch-projects] [mkinitcpio][PATCH] init: add timestamp at start of initramfs if binary exists

[Dave Reisner]

On Mon, May 07, 2012 at 01:28:41AM +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote:
> On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 1:23 AM, Dave Reisner <d at falconindy.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, May 06, 2012 at 05:37:11PM -0500, Dan McGee wrote:
> >> On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 9:59 AM, Tom Gundersen <teg at jklm.no> wrote:
> >> > On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 4:54 PM, Tom Gundersen <teg at jklm.no> wrote:
> >> >> This will allow us to tell how much time was spent in the initramfs,
> >> >> which might be good for working on optimizations and making sure we
> >> >> don't regress.
> >> >
> >> > If this is accepted, I suggest adding the following install hook (call
> >> > it "timestamp" or something like that) to the systemd package:
> >> >
> >
> > I'd call it systemd. It's unclear what's going to happen with early
> > userspace a year from now wrt systemd possibly invading it in some way.
> > We may as well start now with something more generically named to avoid
> > having to possibly rename it at some point down the road.
> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > #!/bin/bash
> >> >
> >> > build() {
> >> >    add_binary /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-timestamp /usr/bin/timestamp
> >> I'm very confused as to why we would call the binary something
> >> different in the initramfs. Shouldn't we not screw around with the
> >> name?
> >
> > I'm inclined to agree with this. The namespacing should stay.
> 
> If you want to think of this as "a hook that does systemd related
> things", then keeping the name makes the most sense. I was thinking it
> would be "a hook that records the timestamp, we just happen to use the
> systemd implementation" and that we'd add other hooks if we wanted
> more systemd features in the future.
> 
> I'm fine with the way you and Dan suggest though. Do you want me to
> resubmit, or will you just change it when you apply it?
> 
> -t

So, just to dig up this aging thread -- was revisiting this for
applying. Based on how systemd has declared how it's invading early
userspace, I'd say that this is better off being called timestamp.
Stuffing everything needed into a single 'systemd' hook won't work out.
Huzzah.

d