On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 12:16:02PM +0100, Maximilian Attems wrote: > klibc-utils could be replaced by the busybox utils. waldi proposed that. > that would reduce the porter work for klibc which is not yet ready for > any arch. We can even produce a extra busybox for that if it is worth of size. > waldi hardcoded the timeout > for the dev population to 2 seconds that seems not to be good enough > default for all setups. i searched for a nice condition to test against > and would be happy to learn one. I try to find a solution with upstream. > > The dependency on sysfs and udev will make it practically impossible to > > install a 2.6 kernel when running the installer with 2.4. We should > > probably check for this in base-installer and make sure the option is not > > presented to the user. I think it is possible at least for initramfs-tools to run without sysfs on the building system. > that needs to be shaken out anyway as this is a possible upgrade path > from sarge. udev currently decides to need a 2.6.12 kernel to be upgraded while an upgrade from 2.6.8 is a valid options. Bastian -- Where there's no emotion, there's no motive for violence. -- Spock, "Dagger of the Mind", stardate 2715.1
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