Bug#448316: apt does not work in initramfs
Amos Waterland <apw@us.ibm.com> writes:
> On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 12:06:52AM -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote:
>> > Would you accept a patch to make apt deal with the case gracefully?
>> >
>> > If not, would you accept a patch that adds a command line option to
>> > ignore the check?
>>
>> I don't have a strong opinion on it. Basically, I'd like to see the
>> proposed patch and see if it's acceptable, otherwise a command line
>> option can be used for it.
>
> Thank you for your quick response. I will send a suggested patch within
> a few weeks.
No problem. I'll wait for it :-)
>> I'm looking forward to see it solved and am I curious to know _why_
>> you want to run it on initramfs?
>
> Software appliances are becoming increasingly important as a way to
> distributed pre-canned solutions. The particular case I have is that I
> want to allow the user to "apt-get install" certain MySQL support
> packages that I have not included in the initramfs.
Nice :-)
> As you know, initramfs images must be fairly small in order to netboot,
> but once they are booted, they can expand. So I am including apt-get
> and in this case just the bare minimum required to run MySQL in the
> initramfs, and the user can then install whatever mysql support packages
> they want after they have booted.
Well but then user would need to reinstall the packages every time
machine is rebooted, wouldn't it?
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