Re: Call for Testing: initramfs-tools 0.97

2010-06-29 Thread Michael Prokop
* Joachim Wiedorn ad_deb...@joonet.de [Sun Jun 27, 2010 at 05:03:02PM +0200]:
 Michael Prokop m...@debian.org wrote on 2010-06-18 23:48:

  we - the initramfs-tools maintainers in Debian - want to provide a
  solid initramfs-tools version for squeeze. The new release 0.97 is
  expected to fix many longstanding problems. It would be great if we
  could receive feedback from testers.

  The new release is available from Debian/unstable and is expected to
  install without problems in at least lenny, squeeze and sid:


  http://cdn.debian.net/debian/pool/main/i/initramfs-tools/initramfs-tools_0.97_all.deb
SHA256:56eb56d472d0dd24c8f2fd030222586e258ec882b716f02d114865cef9c19639

  No matter how your partition layout looks like (rootfs on lvm,
  crypto, sw-raid,...), if you're booting on physical hardware or a
  virtualized system (Xen, openvz, kvm,...) - please give it a shot
  and report any possible problems.

 I have checked the scripts and I was very happy to see that lilo is
 furthermore supported by initramfs-tools (script update-initramfs).
 Can I be sure that this support stay in your package? Because of changes
 in some other packages this would be nearly an existential question.

Sorry for the delay in answering, we discussed that in the team.
Conclusion: no, we - as in initramfs-tools maintainers - won't
support that. The mechanism will change with run-parts execution of
/etc/initramfs hooks - the bootloader will add initramfs hooks.

As explanation for the no see thread with subject [DRAFT] Policy
for Linux kernel, initramfs, boot loader update process
(Message-ID: 1277690555.26161.532.ca...@localhost) on
debian-devel. (I'm aware that you - Joachim - already mailed in that
thread and are aware of it therefore, I'm mentioning it here JFTR.)

regards,
-mika-


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Re: Call for Testing: initramfs-tools 0.97

2010-06-27 Thread Joachim Wiedorn
Michael Prokop m...@debian.org wrote on 2010-06-18 23:48:

 we - the initramfs-tools maintainers in Debian - want to provide a
 solid initramfs-tools version for squeeze. The new release 0.97 is
 expected to fix many longstanding problems. It would be great if we
 could receive feedback from testers.
 
 The new release is available from Debian/unstable and is expected to
 install without problems in at least lenny, squeeze and sid:
 
   
 http://cdn.debian.net/debian/pool/main/i/initramfs-tools/initramfs-tools_0.97_all.deb
   SHA256:56eb56d472d0dd24c8f2fd030222586e258ec882b716f02d114865cef9c19639
 
 No matter how your partition layout looks like (rootfs on lvm,
 crypto, sw-raid,...), if you're booting on physical hardware or a
 virtualized system (Xen, openvz, kvm,...) - please give it a shot
 and report any possible problems.

I have checked the scripts and I was very happy to see that lilo is
furthermore supported by initramfs-tools (script update-initramfs).
Can I be sure that this support stay in your package? Because of changes
in some other packages this would be nearly an existential question.

FYI: Lilo have again an upstream developer - myself. 
If you have some hints for better work together with your package so feel
free to send me a mail.


Have a nice day,

Joachim (Germany)



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Call for Testing: initramfs-tools 0.97

2010-06-18 Thread Michael Prokop
Hi,

we - the initramfs-tools maintainers in Debian - want to provide a
solid initramfs-tools version for squeeze. The new release 0.97 is
expected to fix many longstanding problems. It would be great if we
could receive feedback from testers.

The new release is available from Debian/unstable and is expected to
install without problems in at least lenny, squeeze and sid:

  
http://cdn.debian.net/debian/pool/main/i/initramfs-tools/initramfs-tools_0.97_all.deb
  SHA256:56eb56d472d0dd24c8f2fd030222586e258ec882b716f02d114865cef9c19639

No matter how your partition layout looks like (rootfs on lvm,
crypto, sw-raid,...), if you're booting on physical hardware or a
virtualized system (Xen, openvz, kvm,...) - please give it a shot
and report any possible problems.

thanks  regards,
-mika-


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