Bug#377350: linux-modules-2.6.16-2-xen-686_2.6.16-15 depends on initramfs-tools

[Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>]

James Harper, le Tue 18 Jul 2006 13:22:36 +1000, a écrit :
> > Hi,
> > 
> > James Harper, le Sat 08 Jul 2006 23:02:57 +1000, a écrit :
> > > linux-modules-2.6.16-2-xen-686 only contains modules for xen domains,
> > > and should not require any initrd or initramfs tools.
> > 
> > Mmm, but for dom0 you need to build an initrd.
> 
> Yes, but you'd solve that by making initramfs a dependency of the kernel image, not the modules, same as for any other (non-xen) kernel.

Ah yes, indeed.

> > And BTW, IMHO that should
> > be automatically done when installing it, juste like with other linux
> > images.
> 
> Yes, I was bitten by the fact that there was no initrd, do you know if there is a reason why one wasn't generated?

I don't, but I'm not maintainer :)

And this along the merge of grub's patch for having update-grub work
fine with xen kernels would result to a very easy way to setup xen.

Samuel