Hi,
I've attached a fourth version of the ROOT-setting patch.
The only changes compared to the previous patch is that more
documentation is added, both as inline comments and to the relevant man
page.
I'm hoping that I can get some more feedback on whether this approach is
ok, or which alternative approach that would be, soon...
Regards,
David
PS
I'll update the cryptsetup hooks and scripts in bug 358452 based on your
feedback soonish.
diff -Nur initramfs-tools-0.59b.orig/initramfs-tools.8
initramfs-tools-0.59b/initramfs-tools.8
--- initramfs-tools-0.59b.orig/initramfs-tools.8 2006-03-26
11:52:26.000000000 +0200
+++ initramfs-tools-0.59b/initramfs-tools.8 2006-04-08 00:50:51.000000000
+0200
@@ -314,6 +314,13 @@
real rootfs and execution is turned over to the init binary which should now be
found in the mounted rootfs.
+.SS Changing global variables
+
+In order to allow the different subscripts to change the values of global
variables
+(such as ROOT), they can write the relevant commands to
/dev/.initramfs/source.me.
+The main init script will check if the file exists after each subscript
execution and
+if it is found, it will be sourced and removed.
+
.SH EXAMPLES
.SS Hook script
diff -Nur initramfs-tools-0.59b.orig/scripts/functions
initramfs-tools-0.59b/scripts/functions
--- initramfs-tools-0.59b.orig/scripts/functions 2006-03-26
11:59:15.000000000 +0200
+++ initramfs-tools-0.59b/scripts/functions 2006-04-08 00:43:00.000000000
+0200
@@ -161,6 +161,13 @@
{
for cs_x in ${runlist}; do
${initdir}/${cs_x}
+ # The subscript may create a file to be sourced by the main
script
+ # e.g. to change ROOT or other variables globally
+ # check if such a file exists, source it and remove it
+ if [ -e /dev/.initramfs/source.me ]; then
+ . /dev/.initramfs/source.me
+ rm -f /dev/.initramfs/source.me
+ fi
done
}
