From e7f52635d91df59574700f2b991b2032a6bec116 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Harald Hoyer <harald@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2016 14:54:45 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] README: update
remove "new" and reword the first paragraphs
remove sourceforge repo links
---
README | 20 +++++++-------------
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
diff --git a/README b/README
index c974c08..ff374af 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
dracut
------
-dracut is a new initramfs infrastructure.
+dracut is an event driven initramfs infrastructure.
-Information about the initial goals and aims can be found at
-https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Initrdrewrite
+dracut (the tool) is used to create an initramfs image by copying tools
+and files from an installed system and combining it with the
+dracut framework, usually found in /usr/lib/dracut/modules.d.
Unlike existing initramfs's, this is an attempt at having as little as
possible hard-coded into the initramfs as possible. The initramfs has
@@ -51,7 +52,7 @@ possible. Every distribution has their own tool here and it's not
something which is really interesting to have separate across them.
So contributions to help decrease the distro-dependencies are welcome.
-Currently dracut lives on kernel.org.
+Currently dracut lives on github.com and kernel.org.
The tarballs can be found here:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/dracut/
@@ -64,19 +65,12 @@ Git:
git@github.com:dracutdevs/dracut.git
- git://dracut.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/dracut/dracut
-
Git Web:
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=boot/dracut/dracut.git
-
https://github.com/dracutdevs/dracut.git
- http://dracut.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=dracut/dracut
-
-Git Web RSS Feed:
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=boot/dracut/dracut.git;a=rss
+ http://git.kernel.org/?p=boot/dracut/dracut.git
-Project Page:
+Project Documentation:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/dracut/dracut.html
Project Wiki: