Re: cramfs problems, also file(1)

[skaya@enix.org]

skaya> "build a kernel package --with initrd support"
skaya> and this support requires a specific patch. if this patch is
skaya> not applied, the package will be unusable.
skaya> [...] testing whether or not the patch is applied would save 
skaya> a lot of time for people with funky kernels 

>       Umm, no. The human said: make it with initrd, and that is what
>  we are going to do. We are not going to make half-baked guesses [...]
>       This solution is not the correct one for the problem. (I would
>  say reading is, but ...). 

I would totally agree with you, if either documentation of these
packages mentionned the patch requirement. I don't mind reading docs,
as long as they have the information I need :o) But as I quoted before,
neither kernel-package nor initrd-tools nor mkcramfs mention the
fact that stock kernel ramdisk driver is buggy and needs a patch
to work with initrd. I had to use the source to understand clearly
what was happending (and flame me yet harder, but that code was
really ugly : hand-checking for magic numbers... blah).



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