-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 6 Oct 2005 10:13:05 +0200 Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 08:19:14PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > > > If not, why? > > > > > > I guess generic miscomprehension, or whatever. The fact that > > > ubuntu uses initramfs-tools for example, and so on. > > > > I would guess similarly. My interest was (and still is) actual > > concrete reasons from those (if any) not interested. > > > > Silence as response to both questions (from all but you and I) I > > dare interpret as "we have already decided on initramfs-tools and > > are either too lazy or too busy to even shed light on the issues we > > have with yaird". > > Please interpret it as too busy to reply right now, as many in the > kernel team are over-worked with RL stuff these days :) Ok - I apologize for being rude. What does "RL" stand for? > > > I think what would be of most interest is a technical description > > > of both solutions, as well as a list of arches where it is known > > > to work, should work, almost works, fails utterly. > > > > It is not only arches, but also combinations of features: > > > > With initrd-tools, running 2.4-x when installing a 2.6-x kernel > > causes the tool to switch from "dep" to "most" because (I believe) > > it cannot probe kernel module dependencies. Same situation will > > currently cause yaird to fail completely,as it requires sysfs and > > udev support in the running kernel. > > We don't care about 2.4 kernels, and we don't care about > initrd-tools, the choice is between intiramfs-tools and yaird, i > favor a solution where this choice can be left to the user. We do care about upgrading from sarge (that installed 2.4.x by default on at least the archs I tried) and etch (that I believe will use 2.6 by default on most or all arches), don't we? Added that limitation to the wiki page. Sven: Please don't cc me - I am subscribed to the list :-) - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ - Enden er nær: http://www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDROsYn7DbMsAkQLgRAmm+AJ9+rQD+DTWdfkpCeytziteUY3Sz/wCgm1nZ zzN/ciVvzRIIv1tS6BODgfs= =xyF0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
