Re: ALERT: XFree86 4.1.0-3 maintainer scripts hosed; please wait for 4.1.0-4
David Nusinow <krmt1984@ucla.edu> wrote:
> On Thursday 30 August 2001 11:57 pm, Calvin Chong wrote:
>> You should NOT purge the ash package if you, by any means
>> need something called 'initrd' or 'kernel-image'.
> Why are these packages dependant on ash at all? I know Herbert Xu
> maintains both ash and the kernel-image, but just to purge some
> ignorance (namely mine) from the world, would someone explain this?
Hello,
Afaics mkinitrd generates a initial ramdisd which uses /bin/ash instead
of /bin/sh as shell (for some shell-skript) to keep it small. Once you
have sucessfully installed the kernelimage and (automatically[1])
generated a initrd customized to your kernel and hardware you could
purge ash until you install the next bernel, because the necessary
copy of /bin/ash sits savely in /boot/initrd-<kernelversion>
cu andreas
[1] Probably in the postinst-Skript of
kernel-image_<kernelversion>.deb
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