Bug#291375: initrd-tools for Debian are one big mess

[Bozhan Boiadzhiev <edmon@oohaa.net>]

Package: initrd-tools
Version: 0.1.76
Severity: wishlist


If someone ever tried initrd tools for debian and red hat
you'l find a "little" difference .
With red hat tools you can do whatever you want and to customize 
initrd image the way you want very easy.
IN other way the dabian mkinitrd is very bad documented, can't do
most of the things for more complex operation or isn't documented how to 
do this operations. 
So my suggestion is ... get red hat initrd-tools and make them work in
debian and drop current initrd-tools OR make this thing works as it works 
in Red Hat .
This my opinion is based on my battle for crating initrd image for
booting strange raid controler  ITE8212f and complains from my friend
that he can't make initrd image to boot from USB Ffash memory with
debian but there isn't ANY problems with redhat.
And wow there are so many bug about initrd-tools.
I think debian kernel development team have to take this things very
seriosly.

Sorry for bad english and this is only my opinion.
It is possible that i am wrong:)

Thanks

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-1-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages initrd-tools depends on:
ii  coreutils [fileutils]         5.2.1-2    The GNU core utilities
ii  cpio                          2.5-1.1    GNU cpio -- a program to manage ar
ii  cramfsprogs                   1.1-6      Tools for CramFs (Compressed ROM F
ii  dash                          0.5.1-3    The Debian Almquist Shell
ii  fileutils                     5.2.1-2    The GNU file management utilities 
ii  util-linux                    2.12-10    Miscellaneous system utilities

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