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Add dracut bundle #202

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@DaanDeMeyer DaanDeMeyer commented Aug 4, 2020

Dracut is used for generating unified kernel images which can be signed
for use by Secure Boot. dracut itself requires binutils (objcopy) for
generating unified kernel images.

See https://systemd.io/BOOT_LOADER_SPECIFICATION/#type-2-efi-unified-kernel-images

To add a little more context, I'm working on unifying mkosi's distros a bit more. One part of that is making unified kernel images work on all of them using dracut and kernel-install. Clear Linux is the last remaining distro that's failing in CI because of the lack of dracut in the core-os-plus bundle. The sysadmin-basic bundle contains too much stuff for use as a baseline in mkosi which is why I propose adding a new dracut bundle to make this use case work.

Dracut is used for generating unified kernel images which can be signed
for use by Secure Boot. dracut itself requires binutils (objcopy) for
generating unified kernel images.

See https://systemd.io/BOOT_LOADER_SPECIFICATION/#type-2-efi-unified-kernel-images
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