[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Re: listing initrd content



On Tue, 3 Aug 2021 at 02:03, David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Aug 2021 at 01:45, David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote:

> As the warning says, it and /usr/bin/cryptroot-unlock will go away
> if you uninstall 'cryptsetup-initramfs', which is pulled in by 'cryptsetup',
> which describes itself as a transitional dummy package that
> can be removed. You probably only need 'cryptsetup-run' and
> 'cryptsetup-bin'. I learned this by running
>   apt show 'cryptsetup*'
> and tried it and it works fine where appropriate.

The above applies to buster. Today I see that bullseye is different.
In bullseye, the useful packages are cryptsetup, cryptsetup-bin,
and cryptsetup-initramfs. And cryptsetup-run is a dummy
package that can be removed.


Reply to: