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On 29/04/12 15:40, Zac Medico wrote: |
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> Maybe it's reasonable for the initramfs to utilize a config file from |
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> /etc of the future root filesystem, but having in depend on files from |
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> the future /usr seems like a strange idea. Wouldn't it make more sense |
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> to bundle all dependencies into the initramfs, so that it's mostly |
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> self-contained, rather than have it be dependent on files from the |
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> future root filesystem (or future /usr)? |
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Well it is a bit unreasonable even rely on foreign /etc. |
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The root problem is that what you want to use for early boot should not |
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have huge deps and that assumption fails for a number of reasons, I |
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guess mostly due the fact who writes some software doesn't expect it to |
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be run on early boot =\ |
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lu |
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Luca Barbato |
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Gentoo/linux |
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero |
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