On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 2:43 AM, Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, 2017-08-22 at 10:38 +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
>> > > I added run-init to busybox just now, but I don't see -n option
>> > > in
>> > > klibc-2.0.4 source. Can you point me to the source code with -n?
>> >
>> > It's not upstream yet, but in a Debian patch:
>> > https://sources.debian.net/src/klibc/2.0.4-9/debian/patches/run-ini
>> > t-add-dry-run-mode.patch/
>>
>> Done:
>>
>> $ ./busybox run-init
>> BusyBox v1.28.0.git (2017-08-21 18:55:09 CEST) multi-call binary.
>>
>> Usage: run-init [-d CAP,CAP...] [-n] [-c CONSOLE_DEV] NEW_ROOT
>> NEW_INIT [ARGS]
>>
>> Free initramfs and switch to another root fs:
>> chroot to NEW_ROOT, delete all in /, move NEW_ROOT to /,
>> execute NEW_INIT. PID must be 1. NEW_ROOT must be a mountpoint.
>>
>> -c DEV Reopen stdio to DEV after switch
>> -d CAPS Drop capabilities
>> -n Dry run
>
> Great. Once these changes are in the Debian package, I can update
> initramfs-tools to make klibc-utils optional.
I take you also will need ipconfig, as it seems to be the tool developed
to handle IP autoconfiguration thingy:
ip=<client-ip>:<server-ip>:<gw-ip>:<netmask>:<hostname>:<device>:<method>
I'm looking at it right now.
Can you point me to scripts / other places where it is used in Debian?
