Bug#291375: initrd-tools for Debian are one big mess
Package: initrd-tools Version: 0.1.76 Severity: wishlist If someone ever tried initrd tools for debian and red hat you'l find a little difference . With red hat tools you can do whatever you want and to customize initrd image the way you want very easy. IN other way the dabian mkinitrd is very bad documented, can't do most of the things for more complex operation or isn't documented how to do this operations. So my suggestion is ... get red hat initrd-tools and make them work in debian and drop current initrd-tools OR make this thing works as it works in Red Hat . This my opinion is based on my battle for crating initrd image for booting strange raid controler ITE8212f and complains from my friend that he can't make initrd image to boot from USB Ffash memory with debian but there isn't ANY problems with redhat. And wow there are so many bug about initrd-tools. I think debian kernel development team have to take this things very seriosly. Sorry for bad english and this is only my opinion. It is possible that i am wrong:) Thanks -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-1-686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Versions of packages initrd-tools depends on: ii coreutils [fileutils] 5.2.1-2The GNU core utilities ii cpio 2.5-1.1GNU cpio -- a program to manage ar ii cramfsprogs 1.1-6 Tools for CramFs (Compressed ROM F ii dash 0.5.1-3The Debian Almquist Shell ii fileutils 5.2.1-2The GNU file management utilities ii util-linux2.12-10Miscellaneous system utilities -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#291375: initrd-tools for Debian are one big mess
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Christoph Hellwig wrote: | Complete agreement here. We're still looking for a volunteer, though | ;-) | | Come on! I had offered to take over initrd-tools several months ago. I am sure that there would be several other volunteers. But a big part of the mess about initrd-tools is a lack of documentation. It can do a lot, if you make use of the scripts directory, for example. If you want to replace initrd-tools by something else, then I would suggest to switch to the new initramfs procedure (see Gentoo). Regards Harri -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFB7/eRUTlbRTxpHjcRAvKLAJ0a2LZritHwCj6mR0JOmVKmg1uS9wCfa0tI jBGiG1sEe3z5HDJiDe8hNd0= =WlFn -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#291375: initrd-tools for Debian are one big mess
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 07:25:21PM +0100, Harald Dunkel wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Christoph Hellwig wrote: | Complete agreement here. We're still looking for a volunteer, though | ;-) | | Come on! I had offered to take over initrd-tools several months ago. I am sure that there would be several other volunteers. Hey, it's not up to me to decide, I'm not even a DD. But I'd be happy to see initrd-tools properly maintained by you. If you want to replace initrd-tools by something else, then I would suggest to switch to the new initramfs procedure (see Gentoo). Dito for Red Hat/Fedora -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
