On Fri, 9 Mar 2007 21:27:04 +0000, Tony Houghton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> But that's a bit different; things like make are implicitly
> supported and nobody would expect them not to be. But
> initramfs/initrd support is a feature that make-kpkg users have to
> specifically ask for. initrd and initramfs are not exactly the same
> thing and at the moment the main man page implies that only initrd
> is supported.
Only during this transition period. Initramfs is just another
initial ram disk, and post 2.6 people won't even remember there were
multiple formats out there.
>> Also, did you read all the existing documentation, anyway?
>> Specifically, did you note the INITRD_CMD of kernel-pkg.conf(5) man
>> page that talks about the initrd stuff? I don't think adding hints
>> in the documentation would help, really.
> I didn't see that, admittedly. It still doesn't explain how it
> decides which sort of image to make though. Presumably it chooses
> initramfs over initrd if the kernel is new enough?
Not quite so simple. There is initrd, yaird, and mkinitramfs,
different tools re preferred for different ranges of kernel versions.
manoj
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