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