On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 22:01:28 +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > Your package manager only knows about the copy in the original > > location. > > So? The same applies to a copy in the initramfs.
No it does not. the initramfs is built using the versions installed on your system, and unloaded as soon as root is switched to /. At no time are two different versions available in your path. > > When you update you'll have multiple versions of the same program or > > library in your path. > > Well, with the manual/script copying which needs doing either for /sbin > or initramfs, that will be several copies of a program, not several > versions. Multiple copies of the same version is inefficient, multiple versions is potentially disastrous. > I'm still trying to see the reason why an /sbin with the same contents > as a putative initramfs won't work. You seem to be trying very hard to ignore the point that the initramfs does not need to contain as much as /usr or even /. It only needs to contain the files required to mount / and /usr. this can be as few as 2, busybox and the init script. Even with encrypted filesystems on LVM volumes running on RAID, this box's initramfs contains only 5 files. % grep file /usr/src/init.cfg file /bin/busybox /bin/busybox 755 0 0 file /sbin/lvm.static /sbin/lvm.static 755 0 0 file /sbin/mdadm /sbin/mdadm 755 0 0 file /sbin/cryptsetup /sbin/cryptsetup 755 0 0 file /init /usr/src/init.sh 755 0 0 -- Neil Bothwick "Press Return to Continue" - known as "The Mail Menupause".
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