Bug#336721: Confusion regarding ramdisk Provides; is initrd-tools still supported?
reassign 336721 initrd-tools
thanks
On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 06:34:09AM +0000, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> retitle 336721 Please remove unused Provides
> severity 336721 minor
> thanks
>
> * Jurij Smakov <jurij@wooyd.org> [2005-10-31 22:10]:
> > As far as I can tell, this is correct. Initrds for current kernels
> > *must* be generated using either yaird or initramfs-tools (both of
> > which are experimental software, by the way), since devfs support
> > was dropped in 2.6.13 and initrd-tools rely heavily on it.
>
> Thanks, Horms just reminded me of this fact... this makes sense.
>
> OK, I guess in this case this bug report is obsolete... however, given
> that nothing uses initrd-tools's Provides of 'linux-initrd-tool', I
> suggest this to be removed.
I've reasigned it to initrd-tools, we can ponder it there.
--
Horms
Reply to: