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I was puzzled why I had dracut on the two more _recent_ machines, and I finally remembered why. It became apparent when I tried to install mkinitfs on one of the erroring machines; there was a conflict between dash-binsh and busybox-binsh! So I tried removing dash-binsh, and that was what reminded me: $ doas apk del -s dash-binsh ( 1/34) Purging coreutils-doc (9.8-r1) ( 2/34) Purging dracut-doc (109-r0) ( 3/34) Purging dracut-bash-completion (109-r0) ( 4/34) Purging dracut (109-r0) ( 5/34) Purging dracut-modules-network (109-r0) ( 6/34) Purging networkmanager-cli (1.54.3-r0) ( 7/34) Purging networkmanager-doc (1.54.3-r0) ( 8/34) Purging networkmanager-bash-completion (1.54.3-r0) ( 9/34) Purging networkmanager-openrc (1.54.3-r0) (10/34) Purging networkmanager (1.54.3-r0) (11/34) Purging networkmanager-initrd-generator (1.54.3-r0) (12/34) Purging dracut-modules (109-r0) (13/34) Purging sed-doc (4.9-r2) (14/34) Purging sed (4.9-r2) (15/34) Purging dracut-core (109-r0) (16/34) Purging grep-doc (3.12-r0) (17/34) Purging grep (3.12-r0) (18/34) Purging coreutils (9.8-r1) (19/34) Purging coreutils-env (9.8-r1) (20/34) Purging coreutils-fmt (9.8-r1) (21/34) Purging coreutils-sha512sum (9.8-r1) (22/34) Purging dash-binsh (0.5.13.1-r2) (23/34) Purging dash-doc (0.5.13.1-r2) (24/34) Purging dash (0.5.13.1-r2) (25/34) Purging libndp-doc (1.9-r1) (26/34) Purging libndp (1.9-r1) (27/34) Purging libnm (1.54.3-r0) (28/34) Installing busybox-binsh (1.37.0-r30) (29/34) Installing kmod (34.2-r1) (30/34) Installing kmod-doc (34.2-r1) (31/34) Installing kmod-bash-completion (34.2-r1) (32/34) Installing lddtree (1.27-r0) (33/34) Installing mkinitfs (3.13.0-r0) (34/34) Installing mkinitfs-doc (3.13.0-r0) OK: 5426.3 MiB in 1924 packages So, dracut was pulled in in a messy "upgrade" to dash-binsh. I clearly need to decide whether it is more important to cleanly install a new kernel, or have ANSI colours in my own programs! =2D-=20 =2D- It's ME!