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has caused the Debian Bug report #572003,
regarding kernel-package: initrd-handling is totaly broken
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Package: kernel-package
Version: 12.033
Severity: important
generation of initrd is now handled by scripts in /etc/kernel. whoch
have to be set up on the host, teh kernel ist to be installed. This is
totaly broken.
Needing an initrd or not, is a property of the kernel, not of the
system the kernel get's installed. So it should be configured on a
per-kernel basis and the configuration should be packaged with the
kernel.
At the moment it is configured on a per-host basis und “packaged” with
the host.
The effect is:
* if the kernel needs an initrd and the install-host is not set up for
initrd-generation the initrd is missing and has to be generated per
hand.
* if the kernel does not need an initrd and the system is set up for
initrd-generation the initrd is generated and update-grub adds an
initrd-line into menu.conf.
make-kpkg should generate packages that can be installed on a system
without needing manual chekup and interaction. In short they should
behave like the Debian-kernel-packages.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages kernel-package depends on:
ii binutils 2.20-6 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii build-essential 11.4 Informational list of build-essent
ii debianutils 3.2.2 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii file 5.04-1 Determines file type using "magic"
ii gettext 0.17-9 GNU Internationalization utilities
ii make 3.81-7 An utility for Directing compilati
ii module-init-tools 3.12~pre1-1 tools for managing Linux kernel mo
ii po-debconf 1.0.16 tool for managing templates file t
ii util-linux 2.16.2-0 Miscellaneous system utilities
Versions of packages kernel-package recommends:
ii cpio 2.10-1 GNU cpio -- a program to manage ar
Versions of packages kernel-package suggests:
pn btrfs-tools <none> (no description available)
ii bzip2 1.0.5-4 high-quality block-sorting file co
ii docbook-utils 0.6.14-1.1 Convert Docbook files to other for
ii e2fsprogs 1.41.10-1 ext2/ext3/ext4 file system utiliti
ii grub-legacy [grub] 0.97-59 GRand Unified Bootloader (Legacy v
ii initramfs-tools [linux-in 0.93.4 tools for generating an initramfs
pn jfsutils <none> (no description available)
ii libncurses5-dev [libncurs 5.7+20090803-2 developer's libraries and docs for
pn linux-source | kernel-sou <none> (no description available)
ii mcelog 1.0~pre1-1 x86-64 Machine Check Exceptions co
pn oprofile <none> (no description available)
pn pcmciautils <none> (no description available)
ii ppp 2.4.4rel-10.1 Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) - da
ii procps 1:3.2.8-7 /proc file system utilities
pn quota <none> (no description available)
pn reiserfsprogs <none> (no description available)
pn squashfs-tools <none> (no description available)
ii udev 151-2 /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
pn xfsprogs <none> (no description available)
ii xmlto 0.0.23-2 XML-to-any converter
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On Sat, Mar 03 2012, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-07-20 at 22:46 -0700, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> On Tue, May 25 2010, Benoît Zhang wrote:
>>
>> >>> * if the kernel does not need an initrd and the system is set up for
>> >>> initrd-generation the initrd is generated and update-grub adds an
>> >>> initrd-line into menu.conf.
>> >>
>> >> This is not the case. If the kernel was not set up with an
>> >> initrd in mind, no inird is created. My desktop never gets an initrd
>> >> line.
>> >
>> > There is another problem/bug (kernel-package or initramfs-tools or
>> > grub2 bug ?).
>> > - If initramfs-tools is installed, a intrd is always generated in
>> > /boot even the kernel is built without initrd.
>> > - If grub2 finds a initrd in /boot, it uses root=UUID=... in
>> > /boot/grub/grub.cfg, but the kernel can't boot UUID if it is built
>> > without initrd.
>>
>> A workaround is to remove the /etc/kernel/*.d/initramfs* scripts
>> and instead use the scripts shipped with kernel-package, which don't
>> build an initrd unless one is asked for.
>
> initramfs-tools checks for kernel-package's INITRD=No setting, therefore
> I think this is no longer a problem in practice.
>
> However this is not written into policy at
> http://kernel-handbook.alioth.debian.org/ch-update-hooks.html#s-kernel-hooks-initramfs
> so this is not entirely solved.
So this is no longer something that needs fixing in the
kernel-package code. I don't think that we need to assign this to
initramfs-tools unless there is a concrete issue.
Resolving this report.
manoj
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