On Fri, 2 Dec 2011 08:55:35 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Full disk encryption:
> On Dec 1, 2011 3:32 AM, "David W Noon" <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have a working initramfs layout, but currently it is too large > > (>32MiB) for my /boot partition. The problem package is e2fsprogs, > > as it requires dynamic linkage and, consequently, a full-sized > > glibc. This sucks, so I need to patch the Makefile(s) to build a > > more sensible set of executables for an initramfs. [snip] > You know, Debian has an e2fsck-static package. Why don't Gentoo, I > wonder... > > That said, you *can* have an "almost-static" e2fsck if you compile it > yourself. Clearly you have not tried this yourself. [I have.] The reason modern e2fsprogs no longer have the static option is that the Makefile logic has long been neglected for the static modules and they no longer build correctly to produce e2fsck.static. I am currently (on and off) building a patched Makefile to correct this, but the build is so convoluted that it is something of a chore. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* [email protected] (David W Noon) *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
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