For rpm-ostree based systems like Atomic Host and Atomic Workstation, we don't use grubby (ostree handles the bootloader config), nor do we need hardlink (ostree hardlinks *everything*). I was pretty surprised to find it's not kernel.spec that pulls in grubby and hardlink, nor is it systemd which currently owns kernel-install, but it's actually dracut. Why is that?
(In reply to Colin Walters from comment #0) > For rpm-ostree based systems like Atomic Host and Atomic Workstation, we > don't use grubby (ostree handles the bootloader config), nor do we need > hardlink (ostree hardlinks *everything*). > > I was pretty surprised to find it's not kernel.spec that pulls in grubby and > hardlink, nor is it systemd which currently owns kernel-install, but it's > actually dracut. > > Why is that? for grubby: only dracut scriptlets calls out for grubby (optionally, if it's installed) via the kernel-install scriptlets for hardlink: I use hardlink for initramfs generation to save some space. It's not mandatory.
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 27 development cycle. Changing version to '27'.
https://github.com/projectatomic/rpm-ostree/issues/718
What is you suggestion here? Remove those?
I think trying to remove them is probably the right long term move, but feels quite risky...I think we'd have to do a lot of work to ensure that they show up in traditional installs for a while. Short term I think the best bet here is to add support to rpm-ostree for skipping it: https://github.com/projectatomic/rpm-ostree/issues/718#issuecomment-366788381
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 28 development cycle. Changing version to '28'.
The Recommends: grubby was removed as part of the Fedora BLS effort. Now we just have the `hardlink` recommends left. I don't care too much about it, but it'd still be nice to drop.
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 29 development cycle. Changing version to '29'.
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