On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 7:26 AM, Alan Mackenzie <a...@muc.de> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 10:02:02AM -0400, Mike Edenfield wrote: <SNIP> > >> There's nothing wrong with that, as long as you can ensure that any >> hard-coded paths to those binaries are updated properly. > > Surely this is the same, whether one copies the booting software to > initramfs or /sbin, isn't it? >
If it's 'hard coded' then I think it's not the same. Imagine a text script which specifically tries to find, say, '/usr/bin/ldd' as opposed to 'ldd'. ldd isn't there any more so the script just fails. Just a thought, Mark