Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.38 Severity: normal Having cpio break sym-links is undesirable. For the case of shared objects it's probably best to use "cp -L" to break the links while copying.
Currently the initrd is generated with both /bin/busybox and /bin/sh having the same file contents. Also the busybox program is not used adequately. /bin contains discrete programs for cat, chroot, dd, false, gzip, insmod, ln, ps, mkdir, mkfifo, mount, printf, sleep, true, umount, and uname, they could all be replaced by sym-links to busybox to save some disk space. Also some of the other programs could be built in to busybox to save space (pivot_root is one example). Making these changes should save signinificantly on the amount of disk space and RAM used for booting. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.14.1-se Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Versions of packages initramfs-tools depends on: ii busybox 1:1.01-3 Tiny utilities for small and embed ii cpio 2.6-9 GNU cpio -- a program to manage ar ii klibc-utils 1.1.1-4 small statically-linked utilities ii mklibs-copy 0.1.19 Shared library reduction script ii udev 0.074-2 /dev/ and hotplug management daemo initramfs-tools recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
