On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 07:09:32PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Andrei Popescu skrev: > > On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 12:31:49PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > >> A yaird problem; yaird seems unmaintained since the release of etch, and is > >> not coping with recent kernel changes. You probably want to use > >> initramfs-tools instead. > > > > I just installed initramfs-tools and ran a 'reinstall' on one of my > > linux-images. The result was that the new initrd is now 6194229 bytes > > instead of 1328688, so no, I don't want to use initramfs-tools. Of > > course, if yaird is dying I probably won't have a choice ... > > Yaird is not dead. Just maintained at a slow pace.
Very glad to hear this :) > If you could perhaps have interest in helping out maintain yaird, then > please tell me. It doesn't require advanced skills to do! Ok, ... I'm interested. But be warned, I'm not a coder. > Please check when filing bugs if it has been reported already. I > recommend using the commandline bugreporting tool "reportbug", which > guides you through the proces of filing your bugreport most properly. I reported this against linux-image-... because I thought it might be a problem with the packaging. > Having said that, I do appreciate bugs being filed, better one time too > many than not at all - so if you were just lazy then there's no hard > feelings :-) I see this bug is still open (same as #434597), though #435263 and #435488 are closed. Maybe they could all be merged? Can I do this if I'm not a maintainer? Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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