Dan Nicholson

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> > What's wrong with using boot loader entries? Wouldn't we expect that the UEFI boot loader participating in the scheme (e.g. sd-boot) to support the boot loader spec? Mucking...

Sure, the same way you build the kernel and initramfs on an ostree system. They're just bundled together for a UKI. I think the only thing in there that doesn't...

I guess the way we do it right now at Endless is that the initramfs is generated in our ostree builder. For our systems that use a unified kernel with...

It would be nice if you could provide an allowlist or denylist for the busybox programs. We recently ran into failures because the busybox `blkid` implementation is a toy that's...

> @dbnicholson In most cases blkid can be replaced by udevadm and dracut can be more portable with changes like this - #2033 . In some cases, sure. In our...

> @dbnicholson this is good background, but we need to narrow this down for actionable improvements that is in scope for the dracut project to improve (and not the busybox...

FWIW, ostree proper doesn't do anything with python modules besides changing the modification time like it does for all files. Recompiling must be happening at a different layer in Fedora.

We've been compiling all python modules at ostree build time on Endless for years. But then Debian doesn't include the compiled modules in the packages. Note the hard linking at...

I went back and looked at #97 and I don't see a real requirement to filter environment variables. There is definitely logic in not leaking potentially sensitive data to other...

I threw in a bunch of debug logging and this is quite strange. I'm running the checker with `GIT_AUTHOR_NAME` set to some value in the environment. I added a helper...