I am pretty sure that this will need to be a compile option to ensure that xget can stay light for usage within initramfs images.
Thanks though, this is moving in the right direction! :) Greg On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 4:25 PM, Hugh Greenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Greg, > > The libnss* files are used by libspfs, not just xget. They are used to > authenticate the user and verify that the user can access the filesystem > and/or files. I have created a runtime option that will disable the > permission changing, but that will not prevent the libnss libraries from > being loaded. > > On Mon, 2008-09-15 at 23:43 -0700, Greg Kurtzer wrote: >> Well,... rather a feature un-request. >> >> Recently support for maintaining permissions and ownership were added >> to xget. This feature added requirements for getpwent() and getgrent() >> which added more dynamic requirements on the host operating system >> (e.g. libnss_files.so.2 when building against glibc). >> >> I have already added proper support into the Perceus initramfs, but >> the long term fix I think would be to have a compile option to disable >> certain features not needed for OS bootstrapping and keep things as >> light as can be. >> >> Thanks guys, and great work! >> >> Greg >> >> -- >> Greg Kurtzer >> http://www.infiscale.com/ >> http://www.runlevelzero.net/ >> http://www.perceus.org/ >> http://www.caoslinux.org/ > > -- Greg Kurtzer http://www.infiscale.com/ http://www.runlevelzero.net/ http://www.perceus.org/ http://www.caoslinux.org/
