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Re: The future of the boot system in Debian



On Mon, 07 Sep 2009, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le lundi 07 septembre 2009 à 08:39 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen a écrit : 
> > I guess we were a bit unclear.  The point is to use it for upgrades
> > (ie when it exist), while not installing /etc/inittab for new
> > installs, thus slowly getting rid of the file while ensuring the
> > switch do not affect upgrades negatively. :)
> 
> Please also think of removing it without asking if the file was not
> modified. This will handle at least 90% of installs.

That could be done, yes.  We just need a copy or sha1 and md5 sigs of the
inittabs used in the last two or three releases (and with some luck, it they
haven't changed at all across some releases, and we will need just one).

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh


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