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Relates https://gitlab.com/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/issues/1836 The error checking for the detection of both files is not ideal, but there are no obvious better solutions. For now, we want to avoid requiring one by default, since it allows this change to be forward compatible so not all MRs related to /usr/share have to go in at once. I followed the same pattern as in boot-deploy!29 although there we check for "deviceinfo_arch" to make sure that at least one of those files is complete. The other alternative would be to add an Arch field to DeviceInfo struct, and use it to check that at least one of the files was complete, and ignore any errors if it exists. Since this is not ideal either, keep the double test, and let's take care of fixes once one of them is compulsory.
mkinitfs is a tool for generating an initramfs. It was originally designed
for postmarketOS, but a long term design goal is to be as distro-agnostic as
possible. It's capable of generating a split initramfs, in the style used by
postmarketOS, and supports running boot-deploy to install/finalize boot files
on a device.
Building
Building this project requires a Go compiler/toolchain and make:
$ make
To install locally:
$ make install
Installation prefix can be set in the generally accepted way with setting
PREFIX:
$ make PREFIX=/some/location
# make PREFIX=/some/location install
Other paths can be modified from the command line as well, see the top section of
the Makefile for more information.
Tests (functional and linting) can be executed by using the test make target:
$ make test
Usage
The tool can be run with no options:
# mkinitfs
Configuration is done through a series of flat text files that list directories
and files, and by placing scripts in specific directories. See man 1 mkinitfs
for more information.