Re: Debian kernel packaging: changes forthcoming in kernel-package 11.x

[maximilian attems <max@stro.at>]

On Wed, 02 May 2007, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:

> Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> writes:
> 
> >         Third, I want to do away with the postinst deciding which initrd
> >  generator to run. The current initramfs packages already have commands
> >  to create the initrd; and these packages can again dump in scripts to
> >  run the initrd generator in /etc/kernel/*.d.  This is the chance that
> >  initrd generator people have to fix the interface that they have been
> >  complaining about.
> 
> At work we have many systems with a custom kernel that has all boot
> hardware support build in (no need for initrd) but they have / on lvm
> (needs initrd). So what I would like would be to have one initrd for
> all kernels but still have it update if lvm or mdadm requires a
> change.
> 
> If anyone is writing a /etc/kernel/*.d script for initrd please try to
> implement this feature.

should be easy to implement with initramfs-tools, if you could
give me a user account for one of those boxes next week
i'd see to fix that use case #415474

(using modular kernel since days i could recompile of course,
 but if you have a nice test setup that would be cool :)
 
regards

-- 
maks