Bug#571136: Fwd: Re: Bug#571136: please remove useless devices from devices.tar.gz

..@bugs.debian.org Inviato: Domenica 10 Gennaio 2016 19:48 Oggetto: Re: Fwd: Re: Bug#571136: please remove useless devices from devices.tar.gz Hi, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Jan 10, Cyril Brulebois <k...@debian.org> wrote: > > We have a bug report with a patch by Marco agains

Bug#571136: Fwd: Re: Bug#571136: please remove useless devices from devices.tar.gz

Hi, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Jan 10, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > We have a bug report with a patch by Marco against debootstrap (see > > attachment), which changes how devices are generated; I can't really > > tell how much this might affect all of you (especially with

Bug#571136: please remove useless devices from devices.tar.gz

Marco d'Itri writes: > On Jan 08, Marco d'Itri wrote: > >> If there are some doubts that devices.tar.gz could still be needed in >> the future then I would start with a smaller patch which keeps all the >> old code around. > Here it is. > If somebody will report

Bug#571136: Fwd: Re: Bug#571136: please remove useless devices from devices.tar.gz

Hi ports people, I'm not exactly sure what happened with debian-ports@ (I think there were some planned changes but I don't remember the outcome), so I'm explicitly sending this to bsd/hurd lists since I suspect the linux ports are less likely to be affected by this. We have a bug report with a

Bug#571136: Fwd: Re: Bug#571136: please remove useless devices from devices.tar.gz

On Jan 10, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > We have a bug report with a patch by Marco against debootstrap (see > attachment), which changes how devices are generated; I can't really > tell how much this might affect all of you (especially with debootstrap It is not supposed to, since

Bug#571136: please remove useless devices from devices.tar.gz

On Jan 08, Marco d'Itri wrote: > If there are some doubts that devices.tar.gz could still be needed in > the future then I would start with a smaller patch which keeps all the > old code around. Here it is. If somebody will report valid uses for devices.tar.gz then the old code

Bug#571136: please remove useless devices from devices.tar.gz

On Dec 31, Marco d'Itri wrote: > a) submit a patch which rips out of debootstrap all the devices.tar.gz >stuff, or And here it is. -- ciao, Marco diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index 1020cbc..0bbb2c0 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -2,17 +2,9 @@ VERSION :=

Bug#571136: please remove useless devices from devices.tar.gz

On Jan 08, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > debootstrap is not only used to install Debian on Debian, and being a > tad too aggressive with this removal might not be the best move forward. I welcome reporting use cases which would require a full static /dev. The only one I can think

Bug#571136: please remove useless devices from devices.tar.gz

On Dec 30, Marco d'Itri wrote: > makedev has been orphaned for years and deboostrap should just use > mknod, without even devices.tar.gz. Dear debootstrap maintainers, what do you want me to do? a) submit a patch which rips out of debootstrap all the devices.tar.gz stuff, or

Bug#571136: please remove useless devices from devices.tar.gz

On Feb 23, Marco d'Itri wrote: > devices.tar.gz should contain only the devices which are strictly > needed, even if udev is not installed the others can be created by > makedev. 2015 update: the correct[1] list of devices which should be created by debootstrap to support

Bug#571136: please remove useless devices from devices.tar.gz

retitle 571136 debootstrap should not use makedev? thanks Md I really really wish that debootstrap could stop creating the /dev/ram* devices which have been useless since the end of 2.4 kernels [...] bdale Md/infinity: the real fix for /dev/ram* is probably for d-i to stop using

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Bug#571136: please remove useless devices from devices.tar.gz

On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 07:58:17PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: Package: debootstrap Version: 1.0.20 Severity: normal devices.tar.gz should contain only the devices which are strictly needed, even if udev is not installed the others can be created by makedev. At least the ram* devices

Bug#571136: please remove useless devices from devices.tar.gz

Marco d'Itri m...@linux.it writes: FYI, the only devices needed by udev to start are null and console. Aren't those created by devtmpfs? Or will Debian not use that? -- Thanks, Feri. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Bug#571136: please remove useless devices from devices.tar.gz

On Feb 24, Ferenc Wagner wf...@niif.hu wrote: FYI, the only devices needed by udev to start are null and console. Aren't those created by devtmpfs? Or will Debian not use that? If devtmpfs is mounted, yes. Currently it is not. And I believe it's a good idea to have these on the underlying

Bug#571136: please remove useless devices from devices.tar.gz

Marco d'Itri wrote: devices.tar.gz should contain only the devices which are strictly needed, even if udev is not installed the others can be created by makedev. At least the ram* devices should be removed because they were needed by initrds and are not useful anymore. Then they should be

Bug#571136: please remove useless devices from devices.tar.gz

Package: debootstrap Version: 1.0.20 Severity: normal devices.tar.gz should contain only the devices which are strictly needed, even if udev is not installed the others can be created by makedev. At least the ram* devices should be removed because they were needed by initrds and are not useful