/9/30 Jonas Meurer <jo...@freesources.org>: >> c.) busybox should be a hard dependency on lvm2, or cryptsetup, as >> INDISPENSABLE for people with encrypted LVM2's to be able to boot > > no, lvm2, cryptsetup, mdadm, etc all can still be used without initramfs > on non-root partititions (or for lvm with lilo), thus a hard dependency > is the wrong way to go. > initramfs-tools already recommends busybox, and installing recommends is > the default in debian since lenny.
I disagree with your analysis, I do not see why people who don't install recommends should not expect packages and functionality to just work. > additionally update-initramfs warns about missing busybox in case that > you have root on dm-crypt/lvm/dmraid/...: > > # update-initramfs -u > update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.30-1-amd64 > Warning: Busybox is required for successful boot! This warning is only shown if manually done like above, it is not shown when initramfs updates as a result of a trigger when using dpkg, apt, synaptic or aptitude. If I had seen this warning, I would have heeded it. > i guess the only real bug here is busybox not invoking update-initramfs, > all other issues you discovered where due to your special setup and you > ignoring warnings and docs. i suggest to close the bugreport for that > reason. Firstly, while I thank you for your help I don't like your tone and I have spoken to everyone else with the utmost respect so I do have an expectation I'll receive the same courtesy. Suggesting that I've ignored countless warnings and haven't read documentation is full of presumption: a.) I didn't see a warning, as I explained above; b.) I have not see anything in any document that says that busybox is essential for systems with LVM2 encrypted partitions to be able to boot. As an end-user, I have no way of knowing this to be the case. I do not however mind that it is the case, and normally Debian has appropriate dependencies so that things just work and I don't need to worry. Furthermore, I don't perceive what is special about the desire to run systems with only the packages that are needed. Again, thank you for your efforts in evaluating this bug report. Even though I disagree with the final resolution, hopefully other users who get caught out by this will come across this in Google and find a solution. All the best. -- Regards, Sheridan Hutchinson sheri...@shezza.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
