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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.

-- no debconf information



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