[Yaird-devel] Bug#518315: deprecation notice of mkinitramfs-kpkg

[Jonas Smedegaard]

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On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 03:06:05PM +0100, maximilian attems wrote:
>On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 02:45:51PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 01:16:55PM +0100, maximilian attems wrote:
>> >this command is a kludge.
>> >it was added for kernel-package as some guy wanted still to use 
>> >initrd-tools. next initramfs-tools upload will emit a warning when 
>> >it is used.
>> >
>> >i'll change linux-2.6 trunk to properly call update-initramfs.
>> >as it already does for xen images.
>> 
>> Do I understand you correctly that you want to drop support not only 
>> for initrd-tools but generally for alternative ramdisk generators?
>
>no please reread.
>
>also latest yaird understands update-initramfs call syntax.

No, that is incorrect.

It is true that yaird silently ignore some of the newer initramfs-tools 
extensions to the mkinitrd interface, but not the -t option which is now 
expected by linux-2.6 (see bug#518315).

mkinitrd provided a limited set of commands needed by kernels to 
automate generating ramdisks. This interface is what both 
initramfs-tools and yaird implemented and still used by kernel-package.

I believe that option caused problems in the past for initramfs-tools to 
have that option enabled by default, leading to the change in 0.53 (or 
really 0.53c).

Why do recent linux-2.6 need to introduce the use of the -t option?


  - Jonas

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