Bug#362442: initramfs-tools: A few simple options for greater flexibility
Package: initramfs-tools
Version: 0.59b
Severity: wishlist
Hello,
I am working on updating my DFS bootable Debian CDs to work with kernel
initrds in Debian.
There are a few things I would find helpful:
1) If scripts in local_top could change the notion of ROOT.
I have a script that probes the system to find where the DFS CD is,
and then mounts it, since there is no ability to specify a custom
ROOT. Fortunately this works since the local script doesn't do
error-checking.
2) If scripts in local_top could override the fstype guess.
The fstype reports unknown for ISO9660 filesystems. Ideally it would
suport them, but even though it doesn't, it would be fine with me if
I could override the detected value.
3) It should be documented that hooks and scripts may not contain
hyphens in their names.
#1 and #2 could be accomplished by sourcing instead of executing
scripts, or perhaps by having a well-defined filename that the scripts
could create that would then be sourced. Or even by creating a system
similar to the dependency one that's there already.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.13.3
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages initramfs-tools depends on:
ii busybox 1:1.01-4 Tiny utilities for small and embed
ii cpio 2.6-11 GNU cpio -- a program to manage ar
ii klibc-utils 1.2.6-1 small statically-linked utilities
ii module-init-tools 3.2.2-2 tools for managing Linux kernel mo
ii udev 0.088-2 /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
initramfs-tools recommends no packages.
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