Package: initrd-tools Version: 0.1.77 Severity: wishlist
just like is done in FC2 and above's initrd, please could you consider putting uclib'd udev into the initrd, and then making sure that the programs in it are selinux-enabled / aware? i had to make a pig's ear of debian/selinux when udev is installed because of tmpfs extended attributes, because of mounting /dev, because the recreation of the non-persistent entries in /dev end up with the wrong selinux attributes, i had to run "restorecon" on every single entry **AFTER** udev had run... it was awful. such a mess, and the boot-time is adversely affected, too. oh - and as for /.dev - CHRIST what an awful mess, and the selinux maintainers on www.nsa.gov won't even LISTEN about supporting correct restoration of file contexts in /.dev, so if you accidentally end up losing the file contexts on anything in /.dev - YOU CAN'T BOOT THE MACHINE. [some types of filesystem corruption can result in extended attributes being truncated. if that happens to anything in /.dev, you are xxxxxed for a boot. at least with /dev being managed by udev, the selinux file contexts on your device inodes get recreated!] i can't remember the details, but the half-way-house solution of debian at the moment (where /dev is managed by and created by an initscript /etc/init.d/udev) is a bolloxed up idea. Fedora's solution - start udev from the initrd: correct. Gentoo's solution - don't _have_ an initrd: correct. Debian's solution - start up initially in a half-cocked environment, move /dev out the way to /.dev and then start udev later: total bollocks. l. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux highfield 2.6.11-1-686 #1 Fri May 20 07:34:54 UTC 2005 i686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C Versions of packages initrd-tools depends on: ii coreutils [fileutils] 5.2.1-2 The GNU core utilities ii cpio 2.5-1.1 GNU cpio -- a program to manage ar ii cramfsprogs 1.1-4 Tools for CramFs (Compressed ROM F ii dash 0.4.21 The Debian Almquist Shell ii fileutils 5.2.1-2 The GNU file management utilities ii util-linux 2.12-6 Miscellaneous system utilities -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
