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Bug#807527: [pkg-cryptsetup-devel] initramfs-tools: Please provide an API or best practices for custom initramfs hook configuration

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Hi Ben,

Am 17.12.2015 um 09:57 schrieb Jonas Meurer:
> Am 11.12.2015 um 15:35 schrieb Guilhem Moulin:
>> On Fri, 11 Dec 2015 at 00:54:03 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> I guess that Guilhem meant "... something that's only documented in the
> changelog". And I agree with him, that the purpose and limitations of
> conf-hooks.d directory should be properly documented somewhere in the
> mkinitramfs(8) manpage.

Do you agree?

>>> No, I am not going to add any more half-baked shell script parsing.
>>>
>>> Also, it doesn't make any sense to me, to put hook-specific
>>> configuration into a namespace shared across all hooks.  You can
>>> always add a configuration file to your own package and source it in
>>> your hook script.
>>
>> Using /etc/$package/initramfs adds a useless directory level for
>> packages that only ship initramfs hook and script.  The directory
>> /etc/default is shared, also.
> 
> I understand that Ben will not add the solution that we prefer and
> suggest. But I still believe that some "standardized" way to make a
> initramfs hook script configurable would be a benefit.
> 
> Especially I don't like the idea to add yet another new config file for
> the hook scripts. Thus I suggest the following: in cryptsetup, we use
> the conf-hook.d/cryptroot file for both the main mkinitramfs and the
> hook script configuration. Variables for the hook script will use a
> special namespace (like CRYPTROOT_*) and will be exported. Moulin could
> use the same scheme for dropbear (with DROPBEAR_* namespace).
> 
> Ben, would you be ok with adding the /etc/initramfs-tools/conf-hooks.d
> equivalent directory in addition to
> /usr/share/initramfs-tools/conf-hooks.d? That way, at least custom
> changes of the hook script config would be supported in a proper way.
> 
> If we can agree on that, then the following changes would be needed in
> initramfs-tools:
> 
> 1/ add support for /etc/initramfs-tools/conf-hooks.d (already
>    implemented in the patch I submitted)
> 2/ properly document purpose and limitations of conf-hooks.d directories

Ben, what's your opinion on this suggestion? Is it an acceptable
solution for you? Or do you prefer to not change anything regarding
conf-hooks.d directory handing in mkinitramfs?

Cheers
 jonas

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Bug#807527: initramfs-tools: Please provide an API or best practices for custom initramfs hook configuration Guilhem Moulin <guilhem@guilhem.org> - 2015-12-10 03:00 +0100
  Bug#807527: initramfs-tools: Please provide an API or best practices for custom initramfs hook configuration Guilhem Moulin <guilhem@guilhem.org> - 2015-12-10 03:40 +0100
  Bug#807527: initramfs-tools: Please provide an API or best practices for custom initramfs hook configuration Jonas Meurer <jonas@freesources.org> - 2015-12-10 13:00 +0100
    Bug#807527: initramfs-tools: Please provide an API or best practices for custom initramfs hook configuration Guilhem Moulin <guilhem@guilhem.org> - 2015-12-10 15:30 +0100
      Bug#807527: initramfs-tools: Please provide an API or best practices for custom initramfs hook configuration Jonas Meurer <jonas@freesources.org> - 2015-12-10 16:20 +0100
    Bug#807527: initramfs-tools: Please provide an API or best practices for custom initramfs hook configuration Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2015-12-11 02:00 +0100
      Bug#807527: initramfs-tools: Please provide an API or best practices for custom initramfs hook configuration Guilhem Moulin <guilhem@guilhem.org> - 2015-12-11 15:40 +0100
        Bug#807527: initramfs-tools: Please provide an API or best practices for custom initramfs hook configuration Jonas Meurer <jonas@freesources.org> - 2015-12-17 10:10 +0100
          Bug#807527: [pkg-cryptsetup-devel] initramfs-tools: Please provide an API or best practices for custom initramfs hook configuration Jonas Meurer <jonas@freesources.org> - 2015-12-23 23:20 +0100
            Bug#807527: [pkg-cryptsetup-devel] initramfs-tools: Please provide an API or best practices for custom initramfs hook configuration Jonas Meurer <jonas@freesources.org> - 2015-12-25 15:00 +0100
  Processed: [PATCH initramfs-tools 3/3] initramfs-tools.8: Add  brief description of configuration hooks and files owner@bugs.debian.org (Debian Bug Tracking System) - 2016-01-25 18:30 +0100
  Bug#807527: marked as done (initramfs-tools: Please provide an  API or best practices for custom initramfs hook configuration) owner@bugs.debian.org (Debian Bug Tracking System) - 2016-02-11 05:40 +0100

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