Re: Improvement ideas for kernel and the surrounding oekosystem

2022-02-01 Thread Bastian Blank
Hi Ben On Tue, Feb 01, 2022 at 12:29:08AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Thu, 2021-11-11 at 11:47 +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > > - A lot of bootloaders require special filesystems or other settings. > > Now this more and more clashs with dpkg, as dpkg can't write data on > > those filesyste

Re: Improvement ideas for kernel and the surrounding oekosystem

2022-01-31 Thread Diederik de Haas
Likely not important for the broader discussion, but a small note which may help with the solution space. On Tuesday, 1 February 2022 00:29:08 CET Ben Hutchings wrote: > I'm not sure how common it is to make the EFI boot partition be /boot. I make images for my Pine64 Rock64 which has its EFI pa

Re: Improvement ideas for kernel and the surrounding oekosystem

2022-01-31 Thread Ben Hutchings
Bastian, thanks for pinging me about your message that I missed in November. On Thu, 2021-11-11 at 11:47 +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > Hi folks > > I'd like to propose some pretty drastic reshaping of the way kernels, > initrd and bootloaders interact with each other and with dpkg. > > Tradition

Improvement ideas for kernel and the surrounding oekosystem

2021-11-11 Thread Bastian Blank
Hi folks I'd like to propose some pretty drastic reshaping of the way kernels, initrd and bootloaders interact with each other and with dpkg. Traditionaly we install kernel images and configs into /boot. During installation we generate files in /boot (and housekeeping in /var/lib). Setup symlink