SPECS (AC-branch): filesystem.spec - release 5: %ghost for /initrd...

[Elan Ruusamäe]

On Monday 12 February 2007, radek wrote:
> > why?
>
> Because it's impossible to upgrade if old root (from boot time) is
> mounted on /initrd.  cpio fails on unpacking the *.rpm.
>
> It has been broken for quite a while... :-/

so fix what's broken. it should not be mounted for normal system run.

anyway not being able to umount /initrd (due unmounted /initrd/dev) is fixed 
in geninitrd 8142.

> > doesn't it break fresh installs as i don't think /initrd is mkdir at boot
>
> No.  %ghost %dir creates it.
no, it does not (go and test it)

-- 
glen