On Tue, 20 Aug 2013 07:44:41 +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > The kernel build system can also build the initramfs if you give it > > the location of the config file. That way the initramfs is built for > > each kernel, using the currently installed versions of the various > > tools. > > Yes, it's a little bit easier then manually adding a new initramfs. > But as I update userspace more frequently then the kernel, that would > still lead to a version discrepency. > I need to always remember to rebuild the initramfs when a part of > userspace that sits in the initramfs is updated. An automatic option > there would be usefull. > If it were included into the kernel, I would need to rebuild the kernel > after every update. Just redoing the initramfs is less of a waste of > CPU.
Not really, because make is intelligent enough to no bother recompiling anything for which the source has not changed. -- Neil Bothwick Of all the people I've met you're certainly one of them.
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