Bug#448316: apt does not work in initramfs
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.
> 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.
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.
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