Hi,
As Dropbear upstream I'm keen to see this fixed. Given how
many Debian Dropbear bugs are in the initramfs portion,
perhaps the initramfs setup of Dropbear should go into its
own package for people who want it?
Cheers,
Matt
On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 02:18:17AM +0100, Lars Wilke wrote:
> Package: dropbear
> Version: 2012.55-1
> Severity: minor
>
> Hi,
>
> i have disabled networking for the initial ramdisk environment
> via setting ip=none on the kernel commandline.
>
> When booting up the ramdisk dropbear complains about not finding
> a net-* file and obviously is useless without a running network.
>
> Please allow for a way to not install dropbear to the ramdisk
> or let the startup script be a bit smarter.
>
> For example the run script (scripts/pre-mount/dropbear)
> says
>
> for x in $(cat /proc/cmdline); do
> case "$x" in
> ip=*)
> IPOPTS="${x#ip=}"
> ;;
> esac
> done
>
> but it could look like this
>
> for x in $(cat /proc/cmdline); do
> case "$x" in
> ip=none|ip=off)
> # Do not start as networking is disabled.
> :
> ;;
> ip=*)
> IPOPTS="${x#ip=}"
> ;;
> esac
> done
>
> Thank you!
>
> --lars
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: wheezy/sid
> APT prefers testing
> APT policy: (500, 'testing')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
>
> Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
>
> Versions of packages dropbear depends on:
> ii libc6 2.13-35
> ii zlib1g 1:1.2.7.dfsg-13
>
> dropbear recommends no packages.
>
> Versions of packages dropbear suggests:
> ii openssh-client 1:6.0p1-3
> pn runit <none>
> ii udev 175-7
> ii xauth 1:1.0.7-1
>
> -- no debconf information
>
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