On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 14:37 -0500, Douglas McClendon wrote: > Jeremy Katz wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 13:55 -0500, Douglas McClendon wrote: > >> All those hard coded (117/118/119/120/121) loop devices used are very ugly. > >> > >> Probably they should get replaced with dynamic choices via losetup -f, > >> as my recent livecd-creator patch did (though it was already using > >> dynamic via losetup -a prior, different issue). > > > > Agreed. Given that most people don't use loop devs explicitly, I can't > > see how this would be problematic. Too bad losetup doesn't have a "find > > the first available loopdev backwards" option, though. Because that > > would be even slicker as if there _are_ things lying around with > > loopdevs hard-coded, they wouldn't break. > > Between that and the *nod* I'll take that as "go ahead and make the > patch, and for the rare people that have broken hardcoded loop stuff > that can't handle taken low-numbered loop devices, *and* want to run > those broken things in a LiveOS environment, too bad"
Yeah, I think that's pretty much where I sit :) > > And yeah, the amount of mkinitrd requiring being run as root is so small > > and piddly that it really is quite annoying. Just haven't had the round > > tuits to fix them. > > Is it anything that can't be handled by the fakeroot tool that Colin > recently pointed me at? (and perhaps mtools?) To be honest, the only things that are there are a few mknods. And I can't see any good reason why those have to be done at initrd creation rather than at run-time Jeremy -- Fedora-livecd-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-livecd-list
