Package: initrd-tools Severity: Serious Hello, ...
This is the second step in the linux-2.6 >=2.6.13 ramdisk-tool resolution process. As you well know, 2.6.13 dropped devfs, whcih means initrd-tool cannot be used anymore, and we now have a choice of yaird or initramfs-tools, to make things nice and all, a proposal was sent to all of you and on debian-kernel, but only Simon Horman commented : http://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2005/10/msg00232.html So, i am now asking that all ramdisk-tool packages which the kernel team will support implement the two following things : 1) Provide the linux-ramdisk-tool virtual package. 2) implement in their mkinitrd-compatible wrapper the two following options : --supported-host-version : will return 0 if the version passed as argument (for example 2.6.12-1-powerpc) can be used to generate a ramdisk, and 1 otherwise. This will mostly generally be 1 always for initramfs and initrd -tools, not sure about the 2.2 kernel case and such though, and some kind of 2.6 version for yaird. --supported-target-version : will return 0 if the tool know how to generate a ramdisk for the version passed as argument (for example 2.6.13-1-powerpc), and 1 otherwise. This will be >=2.6.8 for yaird, >=2.6.12 for initramfs-tools, and <2.6.13 for initrd-tools. Note, i mark those bugs as RC, since this is of primordial importance to get implemented quickly so that we may move 2.6.13 and beyond to sid in a timely fashion. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]