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Re: deprecation notice of mkinitramfs-kpkg



On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 03:01:49PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
[snipp]
> 
> It is true that yaird silently ignore some of the newer initramfs-tools 
> extensions to the mkinitrd interface, but not the -t option which is now 
> expected by linux-2.6 (see bug#518315).

right so it is time to add it!

ubuntu doesn't use -t as they have takeover set in initramfs-tools by
default, thus probably it went unnoticed there.
 
> mkinitrd provided a limited set of commands needed by kernels to 
> automate generating ramdisks. This interface is what both 
> initramfs-tools and yaird implemented and still used by kernel-package.
> 
> I believe that option caused problems in the past for initramfs-tools to 
> have that option enabled by default, leading to the change in 0.53 (or 
> really 0.53c).
> 
> Why do recent linux-2.6 need to introduce the use of the -t option?

read man update-initramfs -t section.
we want to be sure to really ship the latest modules, it has to be
reentrant.

kind regards

-- 
maks


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