Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From:	Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>
To:	gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject:	Re: [gentoo-user] After /usr conflation: why not copy booting software to /sbin rather than initramfs?
Date:	Tue, 27 Mar 2012 14:40:40
Message-Id:	`CAK2H+ecM=fyqa=SXs7CwuEouk1fQ+k=EY4hNaqXYAWBUX2tGXQ@mail.gmail.com`
In Reply to:	Re: [gentoo-user] After /usr conflation: why not copy booting software to /sbin rather than initramfs? by Alan Mackenzie

1	On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 7:26 AM, Alan Mackenzie <acm@×××.de> wrote:
2	> On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 10:02:02AM -0400, Mike Edenfield wrote:
3	<SNIP>
4	>
5	>> There's nothing wrong with that, as long as you can ensure that any
6	>> hard-coded paths to those binaries are updated properly.
7	>
8	> Surely this is the same, whether one copies the booting software to
9	> initramfs or /sbin, isn't it?
10	>
11
12	If it's 'hard coded' then I think it's not the same. Imagine a text
13	script which specifically tries to find, say, '/usr/bin/ldd' as
14	opposed to 'ldd'. ldd isn't there any more so the script just fails.
15
16	Just a thought,
17	Mark