On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 12:16:02PM +0100, Maximilian Attems wrote: > klibc-utils could be replaced by the busybox utils. waldi proposed that. > that would reduce the porter work for klibc which is not yet ready for > any arch.
We can even produce a extra busybox for that if it is worth of size.
> waldi hardcoded the timeout
> for the dev population to 2 seconds that seems not to be good enough
> default for all setups. i searched for a nice condition to test against
> and would be happy to learn one.
I try to find a solution with upstream.
> > The dependency on sysfs and udev will make it practically impossible to
> > install a 2.6 kernel when running the installer with 2.4. We should
> > probably check for this in base-installer and make sure the option is not
> > presented to the user.
I think it is possible at least for initramfs-tools to run without sysfs
on the building system.
> that needs to be shaken out anyway as this is a possible upgrade path
> from sarge.
udev currently decides to need a 2.6.12 kernel to be upgraded while an
upgrade from 2.6.8 is a valid options.
Bastian
--
Where there's no emotion, there's no motive for violence.
-- Spock, "Dagger of the Mind", stardate 2715.1
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature
