[Yaird-devel] Bug#435560: Bug#435560: linux-image-2.6.22-1-686: initrd creation fails with yaird

[Andrei Popescu]

On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 07:09:32PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> Andrei Popescu skrev:
> > On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 12:31:49PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> >  
> >> A yaird problem; yaird seems unmaintained since the release of etch, and is
> >> not coping with recent kernel changes.  You probably want to use
> >> initramfs-tools instead.
> > 
> > I just installed initramfs-tools and ran a 'reinstall' on one of my 
> > linux-images. The result was that the new initrd is now 6194229 bytes 
> > instead of 1328688, so no, I don't want to use initramfs-tools. Of 
> > course, if yaird is dying I probably won't have a choice ... 
> 
> Yaird is not dead. Just maintained at a slow pace.

Very glad to hear this :)

> If you could perhaps have interest in helping out maintain yaird, then
> please tell me. It doesn't require advanced skills to do!

Ok, ... I'm interested. But be warned, I'm not a coder.

> Please check when filing bugs if it has been reported already. I
> recommend using the commandline bugreporting tool "reportbug", which
> guides you through the proces of filing your bugreport most properly.

I reported this against linux-image-... because I thought it might be a 
problem with the packaging.

> Having said that, I do appreciate bugs being filed, better one time too
> many than not at all - so if you were just lazy then there's no hard
> feelings :-)
 
I see this bug is still open (same as #434597), though #435263 and 
#435488 are closed. Maybe they could all be merged? Can I do this if I'm 
not a maintainer?

Regards,
Andrei
-- 
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert Einstein)
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