[arch-releng] worker_mkinitcpio missing?

[Thomas S Hatch]

On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 1:30 AM, Dieter Plaetinck <dieter at plaetinck.be>wrote:

> On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 14:37:02 -0600
> Thomas S Hatch <thatch45 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > It looks like in the latest aif the worker_mkinitcpio function is
> > missing. I am using this function in Varch to prepare the initcpio
> > for certain virtualized hardware, so I am just asking, what function
> > should I overwrite in the aif config file instead to ensure that the
> > mkinitcpio.conf is overwritten before the initcpio is generated?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > -Thomas S Hatch
>
> Yes, mkinitcpio building is no longer a separate worker.
> I refactored and simplified the code paths around the system
> configuration a while ago.
>
> As you can see in the base procedure, or in either of the example
> profiles for the automatic procedure: the worker_configure_system
> will call preconfigure_target and postconfigure_target (whose source
> is in src/core/libs/lib-ui-interactive.sh), the latter calls, amongst
> others, target_run_mkinitcpio
>
> You should probably do like the example profiles and define something
> like:
>
> worker_configure_system () {
>        preconfigure_target
>        <your custom code here>
>        postconfigure_target
> }
>
>
> Dieter
>

Thanks Dieter! That will let me get varch back up to speed and working
again! I need to set up a test sequence for varch so that I catch these when
they happen

-Thomas S Hatch