On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 10:36:56PM +0200, maximilian attems wrote: > On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 03:28:00PM -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 08:57:41PM +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote: > > > maximilian attems wrote: > > > > well update-initramfs checks if there is a readable /proc/mounts, > > > > so if /proc is !mounted everything si fine. > > > > > > that's what i stated.. but it's ugly to mount, do stuff, unmount, update > > > initramfs, mount, do stuff, and unmount again. > > > > > > it would be, probably, better if update-initramfs could handle read-only > > > /boot. > > Unfortunately the problem is that it *does* handle ro boot, as a > > special case (and not chroot). > > > > Perhaps it should also test "`stat -c '%i' /boot`" = "`stat -c '%i' > > /proc/1/root/boot`" or some such other chroot indicator. > > so could you reexplain what your request is, cool thanks. I'm wondering whether initramfs should have some more checks before exiting without doing anything. In particular whether it should check for a chroot. I'm not sure either way, but I think I agree with Daniel it would be a kludge to solve this within debian-live. It would be something like:
. unmounting and remounting proc and manually rather than automatically calling "update-initramfs" (since otherwise dpkg and who knows what else will be run without /proc); or, . trying to hide from initramfs that the "external" /boot is ro. > i'll try to rephrase you have chroot where /proc is mounted, > where the exterior /boot is ro. thus no initramfs is generated > inside of the chroot? Right. The readonly boot is specific to me (but could happen anywhere). The chroot with mounted /proc is normal "debian-live" build process. > why is proc mounted? For the same reason it has to be mounted outside the chroot: things fail in obscure ways when it isn't. Within the chroot dpkg runs maintainer scripts which run next to everything. Here, IIRC, update-initramfs is being run by a kernel installation. Justin _______________________________________________ debian-live-devel mailing list debian-live-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-live-devel