On Thu, 2011-08-04 at 18:16 +0200, Hilko Bengen wrote:
> * Thomas Lange:
>
> > > If thw goal is to be able to install dracut and initramfs-tools at the
> > > same time, it would be a good idea to have some (debconf-driven?)
> > > mechanism that makes sure only one of the packages is responsible for
> > > actually creating the initramfs.
> > IMO there should be no conflict, since initramfs-tools uses the filename
> > initrd.img-2.6.32-5-amd64 while dracut uses initramfs-${version}.img.
>
> In that case: Sorry for the noise.
>
> How are bootloaders going to find the initramfs images, then?This is a very good question. I think dracut should use the same filename format as initramfs-tools, and both dracut and initramfs-tools should conflict with linux-initramfs-tool. Ben.
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