This gets rid of the need to have potentially security-sensitive files
like /etc/passwd and /etc/group in the initramfs, and makes the initramfs
a bit smaller. We trust the final userspace to do The Right Thing when
assigning user/group ownership to devices.
They are not needed to boot with dracut, so away they go.
Also rewrite inst_rules to automatically search likely rule locations when
installing udev rules.
All modules now live in a subdirectory /modules.d. Each module is
self-contained -- it should contain everything that it will install
on the initrd. All modules must include a script named install, which
will be sourced by dracut. This script should do the actual file installation
using inst methods. The moddir variable will point to the full path to the
module dracut is currently working on.
As usual, this patch series applies on top of my previous patch series,
and is available as normalize-modules from http://git.fnordovax.org/dracut.
Victor Lowther