Re: Directory /boot/console-setup

2012-05-12 Thread intrigeri
Hi, Anton Zinoviev wrote (12 May 2012 12:04:31 GMT) : > Yves-Alexis Perez wrote on debian-devel: >> >> What do you mean with “this doesn't work in Debian”? Some people do use >> encrypted root and they do have a working console asking for the >> passphrase. > As far as I know currently the conso

Re: Directory /boot/console-setup

2012-05-12 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 03:04:31PM +0300, Anton Zinoviev wrote: > On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 02:54:16PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 07:43:46PM +0300, Anton Zinoviev wrote: > > > Currently it creates files in the directory /etc/console-setup. As > > > a result when the pa

Re: Directory /boot/console-setup

2012-05-12 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 09:07:57AM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > ]] Steve Langasek > > > My complaint is that this is excessively ugly. For persistent variable data > > that needs to be available during early boot, even when this is binary data > > that the user won't edit, /etc is the normal

Re: Directory /boot/console-setup

2012-05-11 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Steve Langasek > My complaint is that this is excessively ugly. For persistent variable data > that needs to be available during early boot, even when this is binary data > that the user won't edit, /etc is the normal place to keep it - it's the > creation of a a .cache subdirectory that I ob

Re: Directory /boot/console-setup

2012-05-10 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 07:43:46PM +0300, Anton Zinoviev wrote: > First the problem in few words. The package console-setup needs an > access to a directory similar to /var very early during the boot process > - when /var is not yet mounted. Currently it creates files in the > directory /etc/c

Re: Directory /boot/console-setup

2012-05-10 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2012-05-10 19:45 +0200, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 07:43:46PM +0300, Anton Zinoviev wrote: >> [Please preserve the CC to 672...@bugs.debian.org because I am not >> subscribed to debian-devel.] >> >> First the problem in few words. The package console-setup needs an >> acce

Re: Directory /boot/console-setup

2012-05-10 Thread Roger Leigh
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 07:43:46PM +0300, Anton Zinoviev wrote: > [Please preserve the CC to 672...@bugs.debian.org because I am not > subscribed to debian-devel.] > > First the problem in few words. The package console-setup needs an > access to a directory similar to /var very early during th