Re: which serious bugs exactly? (Re: if you care about debian on powerpc, please react ...)

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 09:33:19PM -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr> writes:
> 
> >> Yes. We could but it would add another package on archive while the
> >> fix is a simple change on initramfs itself. I don't think it's a good
> >> trade of.
> >
> > Well, the initramfs-tools is a hook based technology. We could add  that hook
> > to a package dependeded upon by the kernel or always installed in powerpc
> > installs. Like mkvmlinuz for example. But yes, fixing it in initramfs-tools is
> > nicer. Now that the d-i problem is solved, i will ping again maks, and maybe
> > provide the d-i patch to him again, or send him a patch directly.
> 
> Looks like the best way to get it done is to use your code of
> fancontrol on rootskel to use register-module. What do you think? It
> would solve the installed system load problem without touching
> initramfs-tools. Do you think it's a better solution?

No the right thing is to fix initramfs-tools, fixing this in d-i will not work
on upgrades.

Friendly,

Sven Luther