Re: initrd/initramfs: we discussed enough, let's take some action now :)

2005-10-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 09:42:54PM +0200, Erik van Konijnenburg wrote: > On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 06:15:04PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > I would really like to have the choice of both approaches, also for > > less common tasks like switching from 2.4 or preparing an alien bootup > > (either f

Re: initrd/initramfs: we discussed enough, let's take some action now :)

2005-10-15 Thread Erik van Konijnenburg
On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 06:15:04PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > On Sat, 15 Oct 2005 16:34:57 +0200 Erik van Konijnenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 08:57:31AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 08:47:57AM +0200, Erik van Konijnenburg wrote: >

Re: Bug#333858: initrd/initramfs: we discussed enough, let's take some action now :)

2005-10-15 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 15 Oct 2005 17:51:40 +0200 Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, etch will not ship with a 2.6.8 kernel, so the upgrade path to > 2.6.8 is not something we need to concern ourself with. the upgrade > path from 2.6.8 is another mather,

Re: initrd/initramfs: we discussed enough, let's take some action now :)

2005-10-15 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [trimming recipients to lessen duplicates] On Sat, 15 Oct 2005 16:34:57 +0200 Erik van Konijnenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 08:57:31AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 08:47:57AM +0200, Erik van Konij

Re: Bug#333858: initrd/initramfs: we discussed enough, let's take some action now :)

2005-10-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 11:41:07AM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sat, 15 Oct 2005 08:57:31 +0200 > Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > The patch claims support for 2.6.8, which is where development > > > started, but later yaird

Re: initrd/initramfs: we discussed enough, let's take some action now :)

2005-10-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 04:34:57PM +0200, Erik van Konijnenburg wrote: > On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 08:57:31AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 08:47:57AM +0200, Erik van Konijnenburg wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 12:53:41PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > > Hey, i didn

Re: initrd/initramfs: we discussed enough, let's take some action now :)

2005-10-15 Thread Erik van Konijnenburg
On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 08:57:31AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 08:47:57AM +0200, Erik van Konijnenburg wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 12:53:41PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Hey, i didn't know the mkinitrd wrapper was shell, or i would have done it > myself. I wonde

Re: Bug#333858: initrd/initramfs: we discussed enough, let's take some action now :)

2005-10-15 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 15 Oct 2005 08:57:31 +0200 Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The patch claims support for 2.6.8, which is where development > > started, but later yaird versions only have had testing with > > newer kernels. If we could get away with

Re: initrd/initramfs: we discussed enough, let's take some action now :)

2005-10-15 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [dropping yaird@ from this On Sat, 15 Oct 2005 08:47:57 +0200 Erik van Konijnenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 12:53:41PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > That said, I also think I should be able to implement those option

Re: initrd/initramfs: we discussed enough, let's take some action now :)

2005-10-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 08:47:57AM +0200, Erik van Konijnenburg wrote: > On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 12:53:41PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > That said, I also think I should be able to implement those options to > > the mkinitrd.yaird wrapper - if upstream doesn't beat me to it ;-). > > Is that

Re: initrd/initramfs: we discussed enough, let's take some action now :)

2005-10-14 Thread Erik van Konijnenburg
On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 12:53:41PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > That said, I also think I should be able to implement those options to > the mkinitrd.yaird wrapper - if upstream doesn't beat me to it ;-). Is that an invitation :-? Here's a concept yaird patch; basically Sven's patch with a bi

Re: initrd/initramfs: we discussed enough, let's take some action now :)

2005-10-14 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 14 Oct 2005 17:15:23 +0200 Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Would it make sense to have yaird maintained by d-k as well, > > > > and me join the team? > > > > > > That would be perfect i think, and you could even put it under >

Re: initrd/initramfs: we discussed enough, let's take some action now :)

2005-10-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 12:55:43PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Fri, 14 Oct 2005 09:46:06 +0200 > Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 2/3rd of the packages involved are d-k maintained anyway > > Would it make sense to have yaird

Re: initrd/initramfs: we discussed enough, let's take some action now :)

2005-10-14 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 14 Oct 2005 09:46:06 +0200 Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2/3rd of the packages involved are d-k maintained anyway Would it make sense to have yaird maintained by d-k as well, and me join the team? - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedega

Re: initrd/initramfs: we discussed enough, let's take some action now :)

2005-10-14 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 14 Oct 2005 09:46:06 +0200 Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, as my previous tries in communicating about these issues where > mostly ignored, this may bring some visibility to it, that said as > 2/3rd of the packages involved are

Re: initrd/initramfs: we discussed enough, let's take some action now :)

2005-10-14 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 03:38:20PM +0900, Horms wrote: > > Once that is done, the third step in the support migration will be > > kernel-package, but this may well be for next week, we will see how reactive > > the ramdisk-tool folk are :) > > That sound fine, though I'm not sure if the RC status

Re: initrd/initramfs: we discussed enough, let's take some action now :)

2005-10-14 Thread Horms
On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 08:04:46AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 03:26:45PM +0900, Horms wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 02:21:04PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 02:15:18PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > Ok, now that lin

Re: initrd/initramfs: we discussed enough, let's take some action now :)

2005-10-13 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 03:26:45PM +0900, Horms wrote: > On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 02:21:04PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 02:15:18PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > Ok, now that linux-2.6.13-1 has been uploaded to experimental, and > > > despite the > >

Re: initrd/initramfs: we discussed enough, let's take some action now :)

2005-10-12 Thread Horms
On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 09:44:01PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 03:26:45PM +0900, Horms wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 02:21:04PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 02:15:18PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > Ok, now that lin

Re: initrd/initramfs: we discussed enough, let's take some action now :)

2005-10-12 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 03:26:45PM +0900, Horms wrote: > On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 02:21:04PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 02:15:18PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > Ok, now that linux-2.6.13-1 has been uploaded to experimental, and > > > despite the > >

Re: initrd/initramfs: we discussed enough, let's take some action now :)

2005-10-12 Thread Horms
On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 02:21:04PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 02:15:18PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Ok, now that linux-2.6.13-1 has been uploaded to experimental, and despite > > the > > abysmal situation of the experimental autobuilders and ways to gra

Re: initrd/initramfs: we discussed enough, let's take some action now :)

2005-10-09 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 02:15:18PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > Hi all, > > Ok, now that linux-2.6.13-1 has been uploaded to experimental, and despite the > abysmal situation of the experimental autobuilders and ways to grab logs, > it is time to finalize the story about the initrd stuff. Oh, and

initrd/initramfs: we discussed enough, let's take some action now :)

2005-10-09 Thread Sven Luther
Hi all, Ok, now that linux-2.6.13-1 has been uploaded to experimental, and despite the abysmal situation of the experimental autobuilders and ways to grab logs, it is time to finalize the story about the initrd stuff. My position on this is as follow, and i have hinted it in previous posts, let's