On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
Package: initrd-tools
linux-2.6 no longer allows initrd-tools for the generation of the
initrd. It's not clear however whether this is intentional or just a
typo. The following changelog claims that all initrd/initramfs
generating tools are supported, so I assume this would include
initrd-tools:
| linux-2.6 (2.6.13+2.6.14-rc4-0experimental.1) experimental; urgency=low
| * Fixed control.image.in to depend on :
| initramfs-tools | yaird | linux-ramdisk-tool
| where linux-ramdisk-tools is the virtual package provided by all
| initrd/initramfs generating tools.
initramfs-tools and yaird provide 'linux-initramfs-tool' while
initrd-tools provides 'linux-initrd-tool'. I see that the current
linux-2.6 depends on linux-initramfs-tool, but that is not fulfiled by
initrd-tools.
Is this a typo in the Provides of initrd-tools or will initrd-tools
not work with 2.6.14 kernels?
As far as I can tell, this is correct. Initrds for current kernels *must*
be generated using either yaird or initramfs-tools (both of which are
experimental software, by the way), since devfs support was dropped in
2.6.13 and initrd-tools rely heavily on it. We still need initrd-tools for
situations when we have, let's say, 2.6.8 and 2.6.14 installed at the same
time.
Best regards,
Jurij Smakov [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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