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| author | Dave Reisner <dreisner@archlinux.org> | 2012-05-03 20:14:42 +0200 |
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| committer | Dave Reisner <dreisner@archlinux.org> | 2012-05-12 15:30:32 +0200 |
| commit | 41a290ce22844ac6b1d021b04df5f7659547cc56 (patch) | |
| tree | fb39185340dec265d0cc7f603718a3fa779f8521 /mkinitcpio.8.txt | |
| parent | b317b01465d81b2adadd5f8d964e59622a6a7a32 (diff) | |
| download | mkinitcpio-41a290ce22844ac6b1d021b04df5f7659547cc56.tar.gz mkinitcpio-41a290ce22844ac6b1d021b04df5f7659547cc56.tar.xz | |
mkinitcpio: remove --basedir option
This option is just a bad idea. Initramfs creation is too important to
get wrong, and running it from outside the root FS has too many gotchas,
the worst of them being:
- where do you pull hooks from?
- how do you resolve binary dependencies within the root?
In general, dealing with the extra luggage of the base directory makes the
codebase more complicated than it needs to be (see all the '_' prefixed
functions which are called from add functions). In favor of simplifying the
code, and making it more maintainable, kill this off and force the sane
option of chroot'ing into an install if the need arises.
Signed-off-by: Dave Reisner <dreisner@archlinux.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mkinitcpio.8.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | mkinitcpio.8.txt | 14 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/mkinitcpio.8.txt b/mkinitcpio.8.txt index 4b0d770..f947514 100644 --- a/mkinitcpio.8.txt +++ b/mkinitcpio.8.txt @@ -29,10 +29,6 @@ Options after all other hooks from the config file. Multiple hooks should be comma-separated. This option can be specified multiple times. -*-b, \--basedir* 'basedir':: - Use 'basedir' as a starting point for gathering information about the - currently running system. Default: /. - *-c, \--config* 'config':: Use 'config' file to generate the ramdisk. Default: /etc/mkinitcpio.conf @@ -48,8 +44,7 @@ Options *-k, \--kernel* 'kernelversion':: Use 'kernelversion', instead of the current running kernel. This may be a - path to a kernel image or a specific kernel version. If specified as a path to - an image, this will always be prefixed by the 'basedir'. + path to a kernel image or a specific kernel version. *-L, \--listhooks*:: List all available hooks. @@ -124,10 +119,9 @@ Examples *mkinitcpio -p linux*:: Create an initial ramdisk based on the 'linux' preset. -*mkinitcpio -b /mnt -g /mnt/boot/initramfs-linux.img -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux*:: - Create an initial ramdisk for the root at /mnt, with the kernel at - /mnt/boot/vmlinuz-linux. The resulting image will be written to - /mnt/boot/initramfs-linux.img. +*mkinitcpio -g /boot/initramfs-linux.img -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux*:: + Create an initial ramdisk for the kernel at /boot/vmlinuz-linux. The + resulting image will be written to /boot/initramfs-linux.img. See also -------- |