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From: "J. Roeleveld" <joost@××××××××.org>
To: gentoo development <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: eudev project announcement
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2012 18:53:37
Message-Id: 1369506.GuoGeKmI42@eve
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: eudev project announcement by William Hubbs
1 On Friday, December 21, 2012 12:20:45 PM William Hubbs wrote:
2 > On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 06:36:05PM +0100, J. Roeleveld wrote:
3 > > On Friday, December 21, 2012 10:21:02 AM William Hubbs wrote:
4 > > > On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 04:04:31PM +0100, J. Roeleveld wrote:
5 > > > > On Friday, December 21, 2012 09:38:36 AM Rich Freeman wrote:
6 > > > > > On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 8:51 AM, Ian Stakenvicius <axs@g.o>
7 > >
8 > > wrote:
9 > > > > > > On 21/12/12 03:10 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote:
10 > > > > > >> An init* needs to be kept in sync with the rest of the system as
11 > > > > > >> well.
12 > > > > > >
13 > > > > > > Just to be clear, by "init*" you mean {initrd,initramfs} ,
14 > > > > > > correct?
15 > > > > >
16 > > > > > Seems likely.
17 > > > > >
18 > > > > > However, for the most part it really only needs to be kept in sync
19 > > > > > with the kernel. Smarter ones like dracut that might do things like
20 > > > > > keep a copy of mdadm.conf internally might need to be updated when
21 > > > > > your disks change, and so on. In general, however, they only need
22 > > > > > changes when either your kernel changes, or the path to the root
23 > > > > > filesystem changes (by path I mean mdadm/lvm/nfs/etc).
24 > > > >
25 > > > > And with the "move to /usr", also when that changes.
26 > > > > Granted, on most systems it won't actually move often once it's
27 > > > > installed.
28 > > >
29 > > > Can you be more specific here? I do not understand what you mean.
30 >
31 > The /usr merge doesn't break an init*, so I don't know how you are seeing
32 > them as related.
33
34 Who are you replying to here?
35 I never said that moving everything into /usr will break an init*.
36
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38 Joost