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Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@...>
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Re: Re: After /usr conflation: why not copy booting software to /sbin rather than initramfs?
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Tue, 27 Mar 2012 23:48:19 +0200
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On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 21:24:22 +0000
Alan Mackenzie <acm@...> wrote:
> That is precisely what the question was NOT about. The idea was to
> copy (not move) booting software to /sbin instead of an initramfs -
> the exact same programs, modulo noise - to have the SW in /sbin
> necessary to mount /usr.
Two words:
shared libraries
Copying binaries is not enough. You have to find and copy every shared
library those binaries use. Plus all the data and other files they
might need.
This is non-trivial.
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Alan McKinnnon
alan.mckinnon@...
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