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I no longer use dracut, and do not maintain this hook anymore.

I'm sorry but disabling this part is not an option for me: We need to regenerate the UKI when parts other than the kernel (e.g. dracut, microcode, systemd-stub) get updated, to include potential bug or security fixes.

"sudo dracut --regenerate-all --uefi" works fine for me, for multiple kernels (including zen). If it doesn't work for you, please report a bug to the dracut packagers or to dracut upstream. But I'm sorry to say that there's little I can do in this hook about this problem.

I tend to believe that it's a setup issue on your system, though. Arch's kernel packages don't put their images on "/boot", so dracut shouldn't even look at /boot for kernel images on a system set up to build UKIs. I think if you can find out why you have a kernel image on /boot you're more than half way to identify the root cause.

SLR but I can generate an image by running sudo pacman -S linux-zen

It is only when installing anything else that triggers the hook that borks the image generation.

Going through the contents of the hook script, it seems that dracut "${dracut_args[@]}" --regenerate-all --force is bugged with how Arch handles kernel versions with DKMS?

I don't exactly get why --regenerate-all is needed but until dracut or Arch's DKMS implementation un-borks it on their end, it might be a good idea to either disable rebuild_all in this script.

Can you build an image by calling dracut directly?

Latest version gives me the following error.

dracut: Can't find a kernel image '/boot/vmlinuz-5.19.1-zen1-1-zen' to create a UEFI executable

Sure, go ahead. I don't think I'll be picking up dracut again anytime soon anyway. Good luck!

@whynothugo I don't think it will ;) Look at the version numbers: Your patch is a very outdated version.

If you're not using this package currently I can remove you as a maintainer, so that you no longer have any obligations wrt to this package.

@pants I've pushed a new version which renames the hook files and removes dracut-hook from "conflicts". Let me know if it works for you.

This patch should work:

commit c7abf106c15285bc935e96ddca16849aa9bfe628 (HEAD -> master)
Author: Hugo Osvaldo Barrera <hugo@whynothugo.nl>
Date:   Wed Jul 20 16:39:02 2022 +0200

    Avoid conflicting with dracut-hook

diff --git a/.SRCINFO b/.SRCINFO
index ea7a782..33c05bc 100644
--- a/.SRCINFO
+++ b/.SRCINFO
@@ -1,19 +1,18 @@
 pkgbase = dracut-hook-uefi
    pkgdesc = Install/remove hooks for dracut unified kernel images for systemd-boot
-   pkgver = 0.5.0
+   pkgver = 0.6.0
    pkgrel = 1
    url = https://dracut.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page
    arch = any
    license = BSD
    depends = dracut
-   conflicts = dracut-hook
    source = dracut-install
    source = dracut-remove
    source = 90-dracut-install.hook
    source = 60-dracut-remove.hook
    sha256sums = 2315588a5e87f46d53e7566942547ea258a4e6f00a28de2f87603b3522172d1b
    sha256sums = 85d5a588984c9c204064926bcdf61dcdbf8d2424efe91389e07669b08ab0ef75
-   sha256sums = 18778db39cd46c6efc7f8fb3b7d6a5007d53bd5dbb78f76b71de5074fe067c4e
-   sha256sums = 6907029a32d144669cb8d312a788598a43c1a45647c33fa66f2fdf165aea71f8
+   sha256sums = 90b20fc9106c54f2ae1f72543ab93c92d659c59c3a2a55a73f6059f0d1dc7527
+   sha256sums = 44cb12f8f850c322ed6f59bb68aeeedc4f5ca1f6a5e008c32be3f3705720817f

 pkgname = dracut-hook-uefi
diff --git a/60-dracut-remove.hook b/60-dracut-remove.hook
index 90e4da4..41a90f5 100644
--- a/60-dracut-remove.hook
+++ b/60-dracut-remove.hook
@@ -6,5 +6,5 @@ Target = usr/lib/modules/*/pkgbase
 [Action]
 Description = Removing unified EFI kernel images...
 When = PreTransaction
-Exec = /usr/share/libalpm/scripts/dracut-remove
+Exec = /usr/share/libalpm/scripts/dracut-uefi-remove
 NeedsTargets
diff --git a/90-dracut-install.hook b/90-dracut-install.hook
index 5343470..9b24ced 100644
--- a/90-dracut-install.hook
+++ b/90-dracut-install.hook
@@ -10,5 +10,5 @@ Target = usr/lib/systemd/boot/efi/*.efi.stub
 [Action]
 Description = Generating unified EFI kernel images...
 When = PostTransaction
-Exec = /usr/share/libalpm/scripts/dracut-install
+Exec = /usr/share/libalpm/scripts/dracut-uefi-install
 NeedsTargets
diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index 6842545..35481f3 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -3,15 +3,13 @@
 # Maintainer: Kevin Del Castillo <quebin31@gmail.com>

 pkgname=dracut-hook-uefi
-pkgver=0.5.0
+pkgver=0.6.0
 pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc="Install/remove hooks for dracut unified kernel images for systemd-boot"
 url=https://dracut.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page
 arch=('any')
 license=('BSD')
 depends=('dracut')
-noextract=()
-conflicts=(dracut-hook)
 source=(
   "dracut-install"
   "dracut-remove"
@@ -20,12 +18,12 @@ source=(
 )
 sha256sums=('2315588a5e87f46d53e7566942547ea258a4e6f00a28de2f87603b3522172d1b'
             '85d5a588984c9c204064926bcdf61dcdbf8d2424efe91389e07669b08ab0ef75'
-            '18778db39cd46c6efc7f8fb3b7d6a5007d53bd5dbb78f76b71de5074fe067c4e'
-            '6907029a32d144669cb8d312a788598a43c1a45647c33fa66f2fdf165aea71f8')
+            '90b20fc9106c54f2ae1f72543ab93c92d659c59c3a2a55a73f6059f0d1dc7527'
+            '44cb12f8f850c322ed6f59bb68aeeedc4f5ca1f6a5e008c32be3f3705720817f')

 package() {
-  install -Dm644 "${srcdir}/90-dracut-install.hook" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/libalpm/hooks/90-dracut-install.hook"
-  install -Dm644 "${srcdir}/60-dracut-remove.hook"  "${pkgdir}/usr/share/libalpm/hooks/60-dracut-remove.hook"
-  install -Dm755 "${srcdir}/dracut-install"         "${pkgdir}/usr/share/libalpm/scripts/dracut-install"
-  install -Dm755 "${srcdir}/dracut-remove"          "${pkgdir}/usr/share/libalpm/scripts/dracut-remove"
+  install -Dm644 "${srcdir}/90-dracut-install.hook" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/libalpm/hooks/90-dracut-uefi-install.hook"
+  install -Dm644 "${srcdir}/60-dracut-remove.hook"  "${pkgdir}/usr/share/libalpm/hooks/60-dracut-uefi-remove.hook"
+  install -Dm755 "${srcdir}/dracut-install"         "${pkgdir}/usr/share/libalpm/scripts/dracut-uefi-install"
+  install -Dm755 "${srcdir}/dracut-remove"          "${pkgdir}/usr/share/libalpm/scripts/dracut-uefi-remove"
 }

I'm not currently using this package, so I'd appreciate some feedback before merging it.

Would it be possible to rename the files supplied by this package so that they don't conflict with dracut-hook? For some arcane reasons, I would like to have both hooks run (EFI stub booting by default but ability to fallback on ZFSBootManager with a regular iniramfs). Besides the easily changed filename, I can't think of any reason why these should conflict.

I understand DKMS, but the hook itself? It just builds the image, it doesn't change any of its contents, so why bother?

And why kernel-install? This hook installs the kernel image itself, through dracut; why would you use kernel-install?