relative order of /etc/dracut.conf and /etc/dracut.conf.d

relative order of /etc/dracut.conf and /etc/dracut.conf.d

[Andrey Borzenkov]

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Currently dracut.conf is sourced after dracut.conf.d. Is it intentional? 

I'd actually expect the opposite - dracut.conf used for distribution defaults, 
dracut.conf.d for local system adjustments with command line options overruling 
them all.

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Subject: [PATCH] Source dracut.conf.d/* after dracut.conf
From: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar-JGs/UdohzUI@public.gmane.org>

This provides the natural way to ship defalts in dracut.conf while
allow local system customization in dracut.conf.d.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar-JGs/UdohzUI@public.gmane.org>

---

 dracut |    7 ++++---
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/dracut b/dracut
index b16e205..3f3c3e6 100755
--- a/dracut
+++ b/dracut
@@ -123,11 +123,15 @@ if [[ ! -f $conffile ]]; then
     [[ $allowlocal ]] && conffile="$dracutbasedir/dracut.conf"
 fi
 
+# if we were not passed a config dir, try the default one
 if [[ ! -d $confdir ]]; then
     [[ $allowlocal ]] || confdir="/etc/dracut.conf.d"
     [[ $allowlocal ]] && confdir="$dracutbasedir/dracut.conf.d"
 fi
 
+# source our config file
+[[ -f $conffile ]] && . "$conffile"
+
 # source our config dir
 if [ "$confdir" ] && [  -d "$confdir" ]; then
     for f in "$confdir"/*.conf; do 
@@ -135,9 +139,6 @@ if [ "$confdir" ] && [  -d "$confdir" ]; then
     done
 fi
 
-# source our config file
-[[ -f $conffile ]] && . "$conffile"
-
 # these options override the stuff in the config file
 [[ $dracutmodules_l ]] && dracutmodules=$dracutmodules_l
 [[ $omit_dracutmodules_l ]] && omit_dracutmodules=$omit_dracutmodules_l

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Re: relative order of /etc/dracut.conf and /etc/dracut.conf.d

[Harald Hoyer]

On 03/06/2010 05:54 AM, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
> Currently dracut.conf is sourced after dracut.conf.d. Is it intentional?
>
> I'd actually expect the opposite - dracut.conf used for distribution defaults,
> dracut.conf.d for local system adjustments with command line options overruling
> them all.
>

err.. I would see dracut.conf.d as a place for packages to drop their files in, 
so I would like to have dracut.conf as the last instance to override any 
settings imposed by other packages.