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diff --git a/sys-boot/dracut/metadata.xml b/sys-boot/dracut/metadata.xml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5e2a64e --- /dev/null +++ b/sys-boot/dracut/metadata.xml @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> +<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd"> +<pkgmetadata> +<herd>no-herd</herd> +<maintainer> + <email>bangert@gentoo.org</email> +</maintainer> +<longdescription lang="en"> +Unlike existing initramfs's, this is an attempt at having as little as +possible hard-coded into the initramfs as possible. The initramfs has +(basically) one purpose in life -- getting the rootfs mounted so that +we can transition to the real rootfs. This is all driven off of +device availability. Therefore, instead of scripts hard-coded to do +various things, we depend on udev to create device nodes for us and +then when we have the rootfs's device node, we mount and carry on. +This helps to keep the time required in the initramfs as little as +possible so that things like a 5 second boot aren't made impossible as +a result of the very existence of an initramfs. It's likely that +we'll grow some hooks for running arbitrary commands in the flow of +the script, but it's worth trying to resist the urge as much as we can +as hooks are guaranteed to be the path to slow-down. +</longdescription> +</pkgmetadata> + |