dir for initrd progs

[Jan Rekorajski]

On Fri, 20 Mar 2009, Elan Ruusamäe wrote:

> On Friday 20 March 2009 16:47:01 Jan Rekorajski wrote:
> > On Fri, 20 Mar 2009, Elan Ruusamäe wrote:
> > > On Sunday 27 April 2008 12:15:29 Elan Ruusamäe wrote:
> > > > how about putting programs that were compiled to be put to initrd into
> > > > own dir instead of filling up /sbin with them?
> > > >
> > > > %{_libdir}/initrd
> > >
> > > i'm still +1 for this.
> > >
> > > we would use just for binaries nothing %config is placed there.
> >
> > I thought about it and /{%lib}/initrd may be a better place for this.
> > Just one question - does geninitrd require programs from /usr/bin?
> > Because if geninitrd does not need /usr then we should not make new
> > dependency. And /usr may not be mounted (for any reason) when geninitrd
> > is run.
> yes, the tools it uses to detect code are not the same progs it put to initrd.
> 
> $ grep -c /usr/ /sbin/geninitrd /lib/geninitrd/*

I see. So it's %{_libdir}/initrd then.

Comments, anyone?

Janek
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