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! ubuntu doesn't use -t as they have takeover set in initramfs-tools by default, thus probably it went unnoticed there. > 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. we want to be sure to really ship the latest modules, it has to be reentrant. kind regards -- maks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
