Bug#291375: marked as done (initrd-tools for Debian are one big mess)
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From: Bozhan Boiadzhiev <edmon@oohaa.net>
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Subject: initrd-tools for Debian are one big mess
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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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Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 17:22:32 +0200
From: maximilian attems <debian@sternwelten.at>
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Subject: Re: Bug#291375: initrd-tools for Debian are one big mess
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On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Bozhan Boiadzhiev wrote:
> 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 .
well this shell script seems easier to read indeed,
but has lots of rh specific stuff hardcoded like kudzu.
so it's not appropriate at this stage.
> 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.
please file separte bugs for them,
i can't help from the tiny bits reported.
> And wow there are so many bug about initrd-tools.
> I think debian kernel development team have to take this things very
> seriosly.
we are sorting things out for the sarge release,
and fixing the release critical bugs inside of it.
latest sarge has already seen nice fixes for them.
anyway postsarge it will be replaced by an initramfs implementation,
so you won't have to rant on initrd-tools anymore.
> Sorry for bad english and this is only my opinion.
> It is possible that i am wrong:)
no problem.
>
> Thanks
>
have a nice day,
closing your bug report to get the rant out of sight,
when overlooking bug reports :-)
thanks
--
maks
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