Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: eudev project announcement

[William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org>]

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On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 06:36:05PM +0100, J. Roeleveld wrote:
> On Friday, December 21, 2012 10:21:02 AM William Hubbs wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 04:04:31PM +0100, J. Roeleveld wrote:
> > > On Friday, December 21, 2012 09:38:36 AM Rich Freeman wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 8:51 AM, Ian Stakenvicius <axs@gentoo.org> 
> wrote:
> > > > > On 21/12/12 03:10 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote:
> > > > >> An init* needs to be kept in sync with the rest of the system as
> > > > >> well.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Just to be clear, by "init*" you mean {initrd,initramfs} , correct?
> > > > 
> > > > Seems likely.
> > > > 
> > > > However, for the most part it really only needs to be kept in sync
> > > > with the kernel.  Smarter ones like dracut that might do things like
> > > > keep a copy of mdadm.conf internally might need to be updated when
> > > > your disks change, and so on.  In general, however, they only need
> > > > changes when either your kernel changes, or the path to the root
> > > > filesystem changes (by path I mean mdadm/lvm/nfs/etc).
> > > 
> > > And with the "move to /usr", also when that changes.
> > > Granted, on most systems it won't actually move often once it's installed.
> > 
> > Can you be more specific here? I do not understand what you mean.

The /usr merge doesn't break an init*, so I don't know how you are seeing
them as related.

William


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