Re: base-installer - enabling initramfs-tools ?

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 10:03:16PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 11:41:38PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
> > Reason is that, even if initramfs-tools is already installed, 'apt-install 
> > <kernel image>' will still pull in yaird and thus yaird will be used to 
> > create the initrd.
> 
> I've never seen apt-get behave this way:  the expected behavior is indeed
> that if initramfs-tools is installed, apt-get will not automatically pull in
> yaird for this ORed dependency.  Can you reproduce this behavior outside of
> d-i?

No, he made a mistake somewhere, and initramfs-tools is clearly not installed,
as is shown by the log output he posted.

Friendly,

Sven Luther