mdctl-initrd

[Tomasz Kłoczko]

On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Michal Moskal wrote:

> I made initrd subpackge in mdctl, linked against dietlibc. It is meant
> to be build by default and put in distribution resources. I'm going to
> hack lvm and raidtools, and commit shortly.
> 
> mdctl-init package contains just /sbin/initrd-mdctl.
> 
> I'm talking about it, since other packages linked with diet/uc are
> simply done using changing %{__cc}. However, as these packages are going
> to be of big usage (they will be required in near future by geninitrd
> to generate initrd for raid/lvm systems properly), they cannot be built
> using home-grown methods. Therefore we need dietlibc{-devel,-static,} on
> builders.
> 
> A note about raid support in bsp -- it will be removed shortly (it
> doesn't work anyway).
> 
> BTW: when hacking packages to built with uClibc/dietlibc, please remove
> glibc-devel from chroot you're doing it in. It will ensure glibc is not
> used (this was the case with slang).

bsp is very specialized tool. The same initrd-mdctl. Both are used in the 
same time .. on system startup. IMHO logical is prepare one tool with
additional initrd-mdctl functionality. When ths functionality will be
integrated in one tol it will be much easier prepare them without 
hardcoding uClibc/dietlibc build dependencies (some neccessatry libc 
funcionality can be even coded inside bsp source code).

kloczek
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