nixpkgs-suyu/pkgs/build-support/kernel/make-initrd.nix
Joachim Fasting 5a8147479e make-initrd: create reproducible initrds
To achieve reproducible results, `cpio` archive members are added in
sorted order and inodes renumbered.

The `cpio-clean.pl` script is made obsolete by setting mtimes via
`touch` & using `cpio --reproducible`.  Suggested by @dezgeg in
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/21273#issuecomment-268116605.

Note that using `--reproducible` means that initial ramdisk creation now
requires at least `cpio` version 2.12 (released in 2015).
2016-12-20 14:00:04 +01:00

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# Create an initial ramdisk containing the closure of the specified
# file system objects. An initial ramdisk is used during the initial
# stages of booting a Linux system. It is loaded by the boot loader
# along with the kernel image. It's supposed to contain everything
# (such as kernel modules) necessary to allow us to mount the root
# file system. Once the root file system is mounted, the `real' boot
# script can be called.
#
# An initrd is really just a gzipped cpio archive.
#
# Symlinks are created for each top-level file system object. E.g.,
# `contents = {object = ...; symlink = /init;}' is a typical
# argument.
{ stdenv, perl, cpio, contents, ubootChooser, compressor, prepend }:
let
inputsFun = ubootName : [ perl cpio ]
++ stdenv.lib.optional (ubootName != null) [ (ubootChooser ubootName) ];
makeUInitrdFun = ubootName : (ubootName != null);
in
stdenv.mkDerivation {
name = "initrd";
builder = ./make-initrd.sh;
nativeBuildInputs = inputsFun stdenv.platform.uboot;
makeUInitrd = makeUInitrdFun stdenv.platform.uboot;
# !!! should use XML.
objects = map (x: x.object) contents;
symlinks = map (x: x.symlink) contents;
suffices = map (x: if x ? suffix then x.suffix else "none") contents;
# For obtaining the closure of `contents'.
exportReferencesGraph =
map (x: [("closure-" + baseNameOf x.symlink) x.object]) contents;
pathsFromGraph = ./paths-from-graph.pl;
crossAttrs = {
nativeBuildInputs = inputsFun stdenv.cross.platform.uboot;
makeUInitrd = makeUInitrdFun stdenv.cross.platform.uboot;
};
inherit compressor prepend;
}