feat: add ubuntu core initrd plugin
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Contributor stewarthore closed the Ubuntu Core initrd plugin pull request to avoid duplicating effort. The work was abandoned in favor of merging a separate PR from Dilyn, which will implement the same functionality.
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Issue body
This adds the initrd plugin that goes with the ubuntu-kernel-plugin to create an initramfs.
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Evaluation history
| Date | Model | Scores | Action | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b | — | — | Contributor stewarthore closed the Ubuntu Core initrd plugin pull request to avoid duplicating effort. The work was abandoned in favor of merging a separate PR from Dilyn, which will implement the same functionality. | |
| qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6 | — | — | Closed by the author to avoid duplicate effort. The ubuntu core initrd plugin is superseded by another contributor's pull request, which will be merged when ready. | |
| qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6 | — | — | Author self-closed the Ubuntu Core initrd plugin contribution to avoid duplicating effort. Development will instead focus on merging Dilyn's pending PR. No code was merged. |
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Related issues
| Issue | Project | State | Summary | Similarity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #5437 Adding initrd plugin supporting UC20+ | snapcraft | closed | The proposed initrd plugin for Ubuntu Core was closed as superseded by an alternative implementation in pull request 5814. | |
| #6102 feat: kernel|initrd plugins: extend and improve behavior | snapcraft | closed | Superseded by PR #6110. The changes were reverted to prevent conflicts with a newly merged kernel plugin that would break existing users. The author closed this PR and redirected development to the replacement. | |
| #5814 feat(plugins): add kernel and initrd plugins | snapcraft | merged | Merged into a feature branch after simplifying kernel and initrd plugin logic and addressing review feedback. Unrelated spread test failures prompted a temporary merge to prevent staleness, with full integration pending upstream fixes. | |
| #6284 feat: merge feature/kernel initrd plugin into main | snapcraft | merged | Merged into main following two reviewer approvals. Integrates a feature branch adding kernel and initrd plugins for base: core22 and higher. The change spans 32 files, adding 8281 lines and removing 6257. |