[Yaird-devel] Bug#477054: Bug#477054: Bug#477054: yaird: Generates invalid initrds which reference /lib/i686/mov/

[Jonas Smedegaard]

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On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 11:22:17AM +0100, Nick Burch wrote:
>On Mon, 21 Apr 2008, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>>> One of the problem initrds can be downloaded from
>>>  http://urchin.earth.li/~nick/initrd-2.6.24-1-686
>>
>> That address did not work for me.  Please doublecheck if it is 
>> correct.
>
>Sorry, the perils of trying to write a bug report on a broken system. 
>The URL should be:
> 	http://urchin.earth.li/~nick/initrd.img-2.6.24-1-686

That ramdisk was not generated by yaird.

If you intend to use yaird, then make sure yaird is enabled in 
/etc/kernel-img.conf as described in /usr/share/doc/yaird/README.Debian, 
and dpkg-reconfigure your kernel packages.

If you have no special interest in yaird, then probably you don't even 
use it any longer, and you should be able so safely remove that package.

Yaird was the default ramdisk generator at some point in the past.  Now 
the default is initramfs-tools.  The package maintainer of 
initramfs-tools claim yaird to be fundamentally broken.  I disagree, and 
use yaird for most if not all of my laptops, workstations and servers.



If no new information comes up, I will close this bugreport as 
unpreproducible.

You clearly hit a bug somewhere, and most likely it was a bug in some 
Debian package.  I just don't believe it to be in the yaird package, and 
since the package maintainer of initramfs-tools is actively tracking 
bugs here in yaird but is not interested in adopting bugs "contaminated" 
by mentioning yaird, I suspect it is easier to file a new bugreport 
against initramfs-tools than poking more here.


Max: If you reconsider, you are of course free to reassign this 
bugreport to initramfs-tools.


Kind regards,

  - Jonas

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