[Pkg-systemd-maintainers] Bug#717429: Please support systemd in the initramfs

[Josh Triplett]

On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 10:29:18PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Am 20.07.2013 21:51, schrieb Josh Triplett:
> > Package: systemd
> > Version: 204-1
> > Severity: wishlist
> > 
> > systemd supports running from within the initramfs, and it adds various
> > features when doing so, such as timing support, or cleaner support for
> > encrypted filesystems.  Please consider making use of this.
> 
> Most likely the wrong component. As you said, systemd supports being run
> from the initramfs. This most likely needs to be integrated into
> initramfs-tools directly. I don't think the hooks support in
> intramfs-tools is flexible enough that this can be done with a few hooks
> provided by systemd.

I don't know that it makes sense to integrate into initramfs-tools
either, without significant rework of initramfs-tools.  systemd
shouldn't try to run initramfs-tools hooks; it should run service files,
and it already has service files for half of what initramfs-tools
normally does (cryptsetup, lvm, udev, etc).

I agree that this isn't something to be solved entirely within systemd,
but I do think it'll likely require changes to the systemd package as
well.

- Josh Triplett