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Upgrade Dracut to 106, use its sysroot feature, fix CPU microcode #2837

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sys-kernel/dracut: Use Gentoo package instead, upgrading to 106
chewi Aug 11, 2024
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sys-kernel/dracut: Disable the dracut-cpio feature, which requires Rust
chewi Apr 7, 2025
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sys-kernel/dracut: Heavily patch for the better sysroot functionality
chewi Apr 7, 2025
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sys-kernel/coreos-kernel: Adapt for new Dracut + bootengine with sysroot
chewi Apr 7, 2025
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sys-apps/systemd: Avoid initrd bloat by using OpenSSL instead of gcrypt
chewi Apr 7, 2025
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sys-firmware/intel-microcode: Fix inclusion of microcode in the initrd
chewi Apr 15, 2025
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sys-firmware/intel-microcode: Don't install the split microcode
chewi Apr 15, 2025
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Expand Up @@ -652,6 +652,7 @@ sys-fs/xfsprogs
sys-fs/zfs
sys-fs/zfs-kmod

sys-kernel/dracut
sys-kernel/linux-headers

sys-libs/binutils-libs
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- Fixed the inclusion of Intel and AMD CPU microcode in the initrd. This was accidentally dropped some time ago.
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- systemd now uses OpenSSL instead of gcrypt for cryptography to reduce the size of the initrd. This change disables systemd-journal's Forward Secure Sealing feature, but it is generally not useful for Flatcar.
1 change: 1 addition & 0 deletions changelog/updates/2025-04-17-dracut-update.md
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- dracut ([106](https://github.com/dracut-ng/dracut-ng/releases/tag/106) (includes [105](https://github.com/dracut-ng/dracut-ng/releases/tag/105), [104](https://github.com/dracut-ng/dracut-ng/releases/tag/104), [103](https://github.com/dracut-ng/dracut-ng/releases/tag/103), [102](https://github.com/dracut-ng/dracut-ng/releases/tag/102), [101](https://github.com/dracut-ng/dracut-ng/releases/tag/101), [100](https://github.com/dracut-ng/dracut-ng/releases/tag/100), [060](https://github.com/dracut-ng/dracut-ng/releases/tag/060), [059](https://github.com/dracut-ng/dracut-ng/releases/tag/059), [058](https://github.com/dracut-ng/dracut-ng/releases/tag/058), [057](https://github.com/dracut-ng/dracut-ng/releases/tag/057), [056](https://github.com/dracut-ng/dracut-ng/releases/tag/056), [055](https://github.com/dracut-ng/dracut-ng/releases/tag/055), [054](https://github.com/dracut-ng/dracut-ng/releases/tag/054)))
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