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Bug#338405: marked as done (initramfs-tools: Duplicate files and inadequate use of busybox.)

Your message dated Fri, 15 Dec 2006 06:02:02 +0000
with message-id <E1Gv68w-0001Uf-Hd@ries.debian.org>
and subject line Bug#338405: fixed in initramfs-tools 0.85d
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Package: initramfs-tools
Version: 0.38
Severity: normal

Having cpio break sym-links is undesirable.  For the case of shared objects
it's probably best to use "cp -L" to break the links while copying.

Currently the initrd is generated with both /bin/busybox and /bin/sh having
the same file contents.

Also the busybox program is not used adequately.  /bin contains discrete
programs for cat, chroot, dd, false, gzip, insmod, ln, ps, mkdir, mkfifo,
mount, printf, sleep, true, umount, and uname, they could all be replaced by
sym-links to busybox to save some disk space.  Also some of the other programs
could be built in to busybox to save space (pivot_root is one example).

Making these changes should save signinificantly on the amount of disk space
and RAM used for booting.

-- 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 2.6.14.1-se
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages initramfs-tools depends on:
ii  busybox                       1:1.01-3   Tiny utilities for small and embed
ii  cpio                          2.6-9      GNU cpio -- a program to manage ar
ii  klibc-utils                   1.1.1-4    small statically-linked utilities 
ii  mklibs-copy                   0.1.19     Shared library reduction script
ii  udev                          0.074-2    /dev/ and hotplug management daemo

initramfs-tools recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information

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Source: initramfs-tools
Source-Version: 0.85d

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
initramfs-tools, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

initramfs-tools_0.85d.dsc
  to pool/main/i/initramfs-tools/initramfs-tools_0.85d.dsc
initramfs-tools_0.85d.tar.gz
  to pool/main/i/initramfs-tools/initramfs-tools_0.85d.tar.gz
initramfs-tools_0.85d_all.deb
  to pool/main/i/initramfs-tools/initramfs-tools_0.85d_all.deb



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 338405@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
maximilian attems <maks@sternwelten.at> (supplier of updated initramfs-tools package)

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Format: 1.7
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 16:10:06 +0100
Source: initramfs-tools
Binary: initramfs-tools
Architecture: source all
Version: 0.85d
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: high
Maintainer: Debian kernel team <debian-kernel@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: maximilian attems <maks@sternwelten.at>
Description: 
 initramfs-tools - tools for generating an initramfs
Closes: 338405 401229 401331
Changes: 
 initramfs-tools (0.85d) unstable; urgency=high
 .
   Release "Le gros ventre qu'engraisse L'suffrage universel"
 .
   * update-initramfs: run_lilo() needs to show errors of lilo -t on failure
     and exit with failure message. Thanks David Anselmi <anselmi@anselmi.us>
     for report. (closes: 401331) Updated according to review by
     Jurij Smakov <jurij@debian.org>.
 .
   * hook-functions: Add hppa zalon scsi module. (closes: 401229) urgency high
 .
   * update-initramfs: Add warning for missing initramfs on update mode without
     takeover arg. Restructure altered_check, don't delete sha1sum on failure.
     Thanks Jurij Smakov <jurij@debian.org> for noticing.
 .
    * mkinitramfs: Reduce size of initramfs by keeping 1 busybox copy.
      Thanks for the patch input to Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au>.
      Thanks for the sed rework to Klaus Ita <deb.ian@worstofall.com>.
      (closes: 338405)
Files: 
 6231b89d82c696554196760c0986e4a1 625 utils optional initramfs-tools_0.85d.dsc
 81e3dbea3fb06cfc654010fa090abaab 55460 utils optional initramfs-tools_0.85d.tar.gz
 962066aea265a40c7208817656a4feb4 62204 utils optional initramfs-tools_0.85d_all.deb

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