I received a request to add insmod.static to the module-init-tools
package, but I do not really like either solution.
Does anybody have an opinion about this?
----- Forwarded message from "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjo...@redhat.com> -----
From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjo...@redhat.com>
To: Marco d'Itri <m...@linux.it>, Guido Günther <a...@sigxcpu.org>,
627...@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Bug#627353: Please include insmod.static
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> Can you clarify why it does?
> I do not really like wasting space on every Debian system without a good
> reason.
Well I can tell you what we use it for in febootstrap:
We boot the appliance using a custom initramfs which has a statically
linked init (no libc6) and which has to load kernel modules in order
to mount the real root filesystem. In order to load those, we need a
statically linked insmod.static.
However I understand that having insmod.static on every Debian machine
just for this purpose is a waste of space. Can it be easily included
in a sub-package?
Rich.
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ciao,
Marco
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