Bug#349354: why not yaird by default?
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On Fri, 24 Feb 2006 14:09:29 -0800
Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 04:24:55PM -0500, Mike O'Connor wrote:
> > Is there any drawback to just switching the default dependency to
> > be on yaird instead of initramfs-tools?
>
> Yes. You can't install yaird on upgrade from a 2.4 kernel.
>
> And currently, you can't install initramfs-tools on upgrade from a
> 2.6.8 kernel.
>
> In each case there are workarounds, but we really want to be able to
> break this dependency loop.
More details on the limitations of each ramdisk tools (and other
comparative info) is on the Debian wiki[1].
Please help fill in the gaps at that page, if you know of something
that is not on that page, or is marked wrongly or as "Unknown,
needs to be tested" :-)
- Jonas
[1] http://wiki.debian.org/InitrdReplacementOptions
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