[Utnubu-discuss] dmraid initramfs integration patch

[Phillip Susi]

I had created this a while ago and posted it to utnubu-discuss but it 
seems nothing came of it.  I have noticed that a new version of the 
dmraid package has since been uploaded by Filippo Giunchedi that has 
some minor changes to generate a second binary udeb package.

Attached is the debdiff that I made earlier with the intent of it being 
-3.  Please review and let me know what you think.  The gist of the 
changes are this:

1) Added the -udeb binary target, now superseded by the current -3

2) Yanked the dmraid.init file to remove dmraid being called from system 
init scripts

3) Added dmraid.postinst to install mkinitramfs scripts to cause dmraid 
to be built into the initramfs and run from there.  This allows booting 
from a dmraid.

4) Switched back to using the standard libc instead of klibc, since the 
standard libc shared lib is in the initramfs anyhow.


I've built this on ubuntu so I'm not sure it will work as well with 
debian's mkinitramfs.  Also I've been trying to figure out how to 
integrate with d-i but that is quite a struggle for me.  Maybe someone 
can give me some pointers.  Comments?  Flames?


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