Bug#349123: Is mkvmlinuz a ramdisk creator?

2006-01-27 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 10:35:43AM +0100, Simon Richter wrote: Hi, Paul TBBle Hampson wrote: Reading the manpage of mkvmlinuz indicates it can _include_ an initrd in its output, but doesn't indicate it can assemble a ramdisk from scripts + modules + fairy dust. (Or whatever it is they

Bug#349123: Is mkvmlinuz a ramdisk creator?

2006-01-27 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, Sven Luther wrote: Bah, the kernel depends on a ramdisk creator, so there should be no problem. Not for linux-image-2.6.15-1-powerpc: Package: linux-image-2.6.15-1-powerpc State: installed Automatically installed: yes Version: 2.6.15-3 Priority: optional Section: base Maintainer: Debian

Bug#349123: Is mkvmlinuz a ramdisk creator?

2006-01-27 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 08:56:37PM +0100, Simon Richter wrote: Hi, Sven Luther wrote: Bah, the kernel depends on a ramdisk creator, so there should be no problem. Not for linux-image-2.6.15-1-powerpc: Yeah, sorry, noticed only later that the bug was against the kernels and not against

Bug#349123: Is mkvmlinuz a ramdisk creator?

2006-01-27 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 20:37:51 +0100 Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 10:35:43AM +0100, Simon Richter wrote: Hi, Paul TBBle Hampson wrote: Reading the manpage of mkvmlinuz indicates it can _include_ an initrd

Bug#349123: Is mkvmlinuz a ramdisk creator?

2006-01-27 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 11:26:04PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 20:37:51 +0100 Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 10:35:43AM +0100, Simon Richter wrote: Hi, Paul TBBle Hampson wrote:

Bug#349123: Is mkvmlinuz a ramdisk creator?

2006-01-24 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, Paul TBBle Hampson wrote: Reading the manpage of mkvmlinuz indicates it can _include_ an initrd in its output, but doesn't indicate it can assemble a ramdisk from scripts + modules + fairy dust. (Or whatever it is they use...) Yes, that was badly worded. If it is rightfully not detected

Bug#349123: Is mkvmlinuz a ramdisk creator?

2006-01-24 Thread Paul TBBle Hampson
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 10:35:43AM +0100, Simon Richter wrote: Hi, Paul TBBle Hampson wrote: Reading the manpage of mkvmlinuz indicates it can _include_ an initrd in its output, but doesn't indicate it can assemble a ramdisk from scripts + modules + fairy dust. (Or whatever it is they

Bug#349123: Is mkvmlinuz a ramdisk creator?

2006-01-23 Thread Paul TBBle Hampson
Reading the manpage of mkvmlinuz indicates it can _include_ an initrd in its output, but doesn't indicate it can assemble a ramdisk from scripts + modules + fairy dust. (Or whatever it is they use...) I think this is a non-bug. -- Paul TBBle Hampson, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Shorter .sig for a more