feat: determine initramfs tool by command presence instead of release files #210
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… files The previous implementation of rebuild_initramfs() relied on checking the distribution's release files (e.g. /etc/arch-release, /etc/debian_version) to determine the appropriate initramfs tool. This approach was unreliable because the release files may not indicate the actual initramfs tool in use, especially in Arch Linux where multiple tools such as mkinitcpio, dracut, or booster may be configured. The new implementation solves this problem by using shutil.which to determine if certain commands (update-initramfs, dracut, mkinitcpio, /usr/lib/booster/regenerate_images, etc.) are present, providing a more reliable and universal method of selecting the correct initramfs tool Signed-off-by: Boris Yumankulov <boria138@altlinux.org>
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The previous implementation of rebuild_initramfs() relied on checking the distribution's release files (e.g. /etc/arch-release, /etc/debian_version) to determine the appropriate initramfs tool. This approach was unreliable because the release files may not indicate the actual initramfs tool in use, especially in Arch Linux where multiple tools such as mkinitcpio, dracut, or booster may be configured. The new implementation solves this problem by using shutil.which to determine if certain commands (update-initramfs, dracut, mkinitcpio, /usr/lib/booster/regenerate_images, etc.) are present, providing a more reliable and universal method of selecting the correct initramfs tool