From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] After /usr conflation: why not copy booting software to /sbin rather than initramfs?
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 07:38:56 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAK2H+ecM=fyqa=SXs7CwuEouk1fQ+k=EY4hNaqXYAWBUX2tGXQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120327142646.GB3754@acm.acm>
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 7:26 AM, Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 10:02:02AM -0400, Mike Edenfield wrote:
<SNIP>
>
>> There's nothing wrong with that, as long as you can ensure that any
>> hard-coded paths to those binaries are updated properly.
>
> Surely this is the same, whether one copies the booting software to
> initramfs or /sbin, isn't it?
>
If it's 'hard coded' then I think it's not the same. Imagine a text
script which specifically tries to find, say, '/usr/bin/ldd' as
opposed to 'ldd'. ldd isn't there any more so the script just fails.
Just a thought,
Mark
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2012-03-27 13:37 [gentoo-user] After /usr conflation: why not copy booting software to /sbin rather than initramfs? Alan Mackenzie
2012-03-27 13:48 ` Michael Mol
2012-03-27 14:02 ` Mike Edenfield
2012-03-27 14:19 ` Michael Mol
2012-03-27 14:26 ` Alan Mackenzie
2012-03-27 14:38 ` Mark Knecht [this message]
2012-03-27 14:46 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-03-27 17:55 ` [gentoo-user] " che
2012-03-27 18:41 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-03-28 18:43 ` che
2012-03-27 19:56 ` Mike Edenfield
2012-03-27 21:24 ` Alan Mackenzie
2012-03-27 21:41 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-03-27 22:01 ` Alan Mackenzie
2012-03-27 22:39 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-03-27 23:32 ` Alan Mackenzie
2012-03-28 7:47 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-03-27 22:53 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-03-27 21:48 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-03-27 22:35 ` Alan Mackenzie
2012-03-27 22:54 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-03-27 22:55 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-03-28 14:01 ` Alan Mackenzie
2012-03-28 14:56 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-03-28 17:07 ` Alan Mackenzie
2012-03-28 17:40 ` Mike Edenfield
2012-03-28 21:47 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-03-28 22:45 ` Peter Humphrey
2012-03-28 23:25 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-03-29 1:53 ` Dale
2012-03-29 2:07 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2012-03-29 2:39 ` Dale
2012-03-29 5:08 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2012-03-29 20:15 ` Dale
2012-03-29 20:53 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2012-04-02 7:41 ` Dale
2012-04-02 13:33 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2012-04-02 19:54 ` Dale
2012-04-02 20:28 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2012-04-02 21:21 ` Dale
2012-04-02 21:37 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2012-04-03 0:19 ` Dale
2012-04-02 22:08 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-04-02 22:21 ` Dale
2012-04-02 22:41 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2012-04-03 0:19 ` Dale
2012-04-03 0:35 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-04-03 1:03 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2012-04-03 1:29 ` Dale
2012-04-03 1:01 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2012-04-03 1:19 ` Dale
2012-04-03 2:08 ` Dale
[not found] ` <CADPrc81Q6Tmzpg0p7cbOYr8iXQFO_L4QGKid=LGZPXLB1dt5Xw@mail.gmail .com>
2012-04-03 2:43 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2012-04-03 3:12 ` Dale
2012-04-03 5:32 ` Dale
2012-04-03 12:46 ` Mike Edenfield
2012-04-03 13:21 ` Dale
2012-04-03 17:48 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2012-04-04 0:02 ` Dale
2012-04-04 1:59 ` William Kenworthy
2012-04-04 2:55 ` Dale
2012-04-04 3:12 ` Dale
2012-04-04 3:19 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2012-04-04 7:48 ` Dale
2012-04-04 9:05 ` Dale
2012-04-04 9:22 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-04-04 9:54 ` Dale
2012-04-04 11:22 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-04-04 23:37 ` Dale
2012-04-04 17:23 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2012-04-04 23:35 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-04-04 23:39 ` Dale
2012-03-29 21:11 ` Todd Goodman
2012-03-29 21:32 ` Dale
2012-03-30 13:48 ` Todd Goodman
2012-03-29 21:52 ` Mike Edenfield
2012-03-28 4:24 ` Mike Edenfield
2012-03-28 4:55 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2012-03-28 17:27 ` Mike Edenfield
2012-03-28 6:17 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-03-28 6:19 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-03-28 7:43 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-03-29 2:16 ` Dale
2012-03-29 8:52 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-03-28 17:36 ` Mike Edenfield
2012-03-29 15:56 ` Alan Mackenzie
2012-03-29 16:35 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-03-29 17:13 ` Michael Mol
2012-03-29 18:11 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-03-29 18:35 ` Michael Mol
2012-03-30 0:04 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-03-30 2:10 ` Mike Edenfield
2012-03-30 3:17 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-03-30 0:10 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-03-29 17:29 ` Alan Mackenzie
2012-03-29 18:04 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-03-29 18:10 ` Mike Edenfield
2012-03-28 19:14 ` che
2012-03-27 15:30 ` [gentoo-user] " Mike Edenfield
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