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Hello, Neil. |
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On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 10:41:53PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 21:24:22 +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote: |
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> > That is precisely what the question was NOT about. The idea was to copy |
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> > (not move) booting software to /sbin instead of an initramfs - the exact |
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> > same programs, modulo noise - to have the SW in /sbin necessary to mount |
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> > /usr. |
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> Your package manager only knows about the copy in the original location. |
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So? The same applies to a copy in the initramfs. |
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> When you update you'll have multiple versions of the same program or |
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> library in your path. |
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Well, with the manual/script copying which needs doing either for /sbin |
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or initramfs, that will be several copies of a program, not several |
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versions. |
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I'm still trying to see the reason why an /sbin with the same contents as |
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a putative initramfs won't work. |
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> -- |
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> Neil Bothwick |
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-- |
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Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). |
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