Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Baselayout 2 (Was: Sun and GPL)

[Isidore Ducasse <ducasse.isidore@gmail.com>]

le Tue, 29 May 2007 21:38:17 -0700
"Wil Reichert" <wil.reichert@gmail.com> a écrit:

> On 5/29/07, Joshua Hoblitt <jhoblitt@ifa.hawaii.edu> wrote:
> > On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 02:33:18AM +0200, Florian D. wrote:
> > > FYI, genkernel is creating an initrd, not an initramfs, which is the
> > preferred way nowadays.
> > > Information on how to setup an initramfs can be found at:
> > > http://lldn.timesys.com/docs/initramfs
> >
> > Umm, I think you need to check your facts.  genkernel creates a gzip'd
> > CPIO archive named "initramfs-genkernel-arch-versionstring"...
> 
> So the command 'genkernel initrd' creates a file called
> 'initramfs-...'  which contains files called etc/initrd.defaults and
> etc/initrd.scripts.  Poor naming conventions but it looks like an
> initrd to me.
> 

I'm "afraid" it isn't. Try zcat initramfs | cpio -t . initramfs are cpio archives. And genkenrel is such a wild beast, that it compiles a static busybox against uclibc _if_ you have an uclibc toolchain available for your arch through crossdev (this feature really impresses me). If I'm not wrong, when you haven't got any such toolchain, it uses a prebuilt version of busybox. Those informations were gathered empirically by using genkernel. Could someone confirm/infirm/precise?
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