SPECS: initramfs-tools.spec - better description

baggins baggins at pld-linux.org
Sun Feb 22 18:09:08 CET 2009


Author: baggins                      Date: Sun Feb 22 17:09:08 2009 GMT
Module: SPECS                         Tag: HEAD
---- Log message:
- better description

---- Files affected:
SPECS:
   initramfs-tools.spec (1.4 -> 1.5) 

---- Diffs:

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Index: SPECS/initramfs-tools.spec
diff -u SPECS/initramfs-tools.spec:1.4 SPECS/initramfs-tools.spec:1.5
--- SPECS/initramfs-tools.spec:1.4	Sun Feb 22 13:44:52 2009
+++ SPECS/initramfs-tools.spec	Sun Feb 22 18:09:02 2009
@@ -35,14 +35,15 @@
 BuildRoot:	%{tmpdir}/%{name}-%{version}-root-%(id -u -n)
 
 %description
-This package contains tools to create and boot an initramfs for
-packaged 2.6 Linux kernel. The initramfs is a gzipped cpio archive.
-At boot time, the kernel unpacks that archive into RAM, mounts and
-uses it as initial root file system. The mounting of the real root
-file system occurs in early user space. klibc provides utilities to
-setup root. Having the root on EVMS, MD, LVM2, LUKS or NFS is also
-supported. Any boot loader with initrd support is able to load an
-initramfs archive.
+initramfs-tools is an hookable initramfs generator.
+It can boot on NFS, LVM2, md, LUKS, dmraid, oldstyle devices, ...
+The generated initramfs is generic, but can explicitly be tuned
+for small. It is actively deployed in Debian and Ubuntu.
+It is written in POSIX shell. It has an "end-user" friendly
+invocation with update-initramfs and the low level mkinitramfs.
+klibc is used for minimal initramfs. The initramfs comes together
+with a rescue shell. It is possible to ssh into it.
+run-init nukes initramfs, remounts /root, chroots, spawns init.
 
 #%description -l pl.UTF-8
 
@@ -117,6 +118,9 @@
 All persons listed below can be reached at <cvs_login>@pld-linux.org
 
 $Log$
+Revision 1.5  2009/02/22 17:09:02  baggins
+- better description
+
 Revision 1.4  2009/02/22 12:44:52  baggins
 - less todo, klibc cleaned up
 
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---- CVS-web:
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