-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 03:26:50PM +0100, maximilian attems wrote: >On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 03:01:49PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: >[snipp] >> >> It is true that yaird silently ignore some of the newer >> initramfs-tools extensions to the mkinitrd interface, but not the -t >> option which is now expected by linux-2.6 (see bug#518315). > >right so it is time to add it!
Time? What has time to do with it? Please provide reason! >ubuntu doesn't use -t as they have takeover set in initramfs-tools by >default, thus probably it went unnoticed there. So why don't you drop that option instead, if it is always forced? >> mkinitrd provided a limited set of commands needed by kernels to >> automate generating ramdisks. This interface is what both >> initramfs-tools and yaird implemented and still used by >> kernel-package. >> >> I believe that option caused problems in the past for initramfs-tools >> to have that option enabled by default, leading to the change in 0.53 >> (or really 0.53c). >> >> Why do recent linux-2.6 need to introduce the use of the -t option? > >read man update-initramfs -t section. I did. It describes a feature of a generic tool, not about special needs of official Debian kernels. >we want to be sure to really ship the latest modules, it has to be >reentrant. Is that a different need for official kernels than other kernels? - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkm1OHAACgkQn7DbMsAkQLhCSACeNQjQ9LoAk8dTkD2uDYxRFmLB QzwAn32y9tmr5Jv6aIO1tage4OFAlsxU =4dT+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
