| 29 Jul 2025 |
 @marcel:envs.net | In reply to @elvishjerricco:matrix.org
yea, indeed, copy_bin_and_libs ${getExe ifstate} on your branch results in a non-functional nuke-refs'd program, and using the program outside of extra-utils instead pulls in the whole closure for a whopping 75M of initrd size. Is there a reason why copy_bin_and_libs should not be working with systemd stage one? | 07:39:52 |
 ElvishJerricco | copy_bin_and_libs is a extra-utils thing, which is not how systemd initrd defines its binaries. | 07:40:42 |
| ElvishJerricco | See: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/build-support/kernel/make-initrd-ng/README.md | 07:40:44 |
| ElvishJerricco | heh, that readme needs an update. | 07:43:08 |
| ElvishJerricco | it describes taking pairs of paths as input but nowadays it's json | 07:43:19 |
| ElvishJerricco | it also doesn't cover a couple of the dependencies it chases, namely wrapped executables and the .dlopen ELF section things that systemd uses now. | 07:44:13 |
| ElvishJerricco | oh no it does mention the wrapped exes | 07:45:05 |
| ElvishJerricco | oh, if you were asking why I said copy_bin_and_libs "results in a non-functional nuke-refs'd program", I meant when trying to add the program to scripted initrd. | 07:51:06 |
| @marcel:envs.net | But I've been using ifstate in scripted initrd for over a year without any problem. | 14:03:05 |
| 31 Jul 2025 |
|  @sammy:cherrykitten.dev left the room. | 10:03:53 |
| 29 Jul 2025 |
 emily | feel like we should have a "just add the normal closure" thing for systemd stage 1 | 14:03:51 |
| emily | (or just do that unconditionally and trim down some closures/split outputs :P) | 14:04:04 |
| @marcel:envs.net | Idk do you see any alternatives that should currently be doable? Specifying every store path that's necessary? Building a static binary of ifstate? Idk if that's possible using python | 14:19:24 |
 K900 | You can't build a static binary with Python | 14:19:48 |
| K900 | You can probably drag all of Python into initrd | 14:19:54 |
