Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 10 Jan 2002 00:30:01 +0100 | | From | Andreas Ferber <> | | Subject | Re: initramfs programs (was [RFC] klibc requirements) |
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On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 04:56:58PM -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> > That's the way it works for network daemons etc. for years. > This sounds like good advice. The autoconfigurator is part of CML2, > which I expect to be distributed with the kernel. Does that change > your advice at all?
Yes, a little bit. Make dmidecode (or whatever you also need for preparation steps that have to be done as root) a separate package, which has to be installed before "make autoconfig" works, and write that down in Documentation/Changes.
This gives you several benefits:
- you don't depend on the version of the /running/ kernel for "make autoconfig" to work (/dev/kmem is available for a /long/ time now). - you can install and run dmidecode on one machine, copy the retrieved data to another machine and autoconfigure/build the kernel there.
Distributions can install the package by default, to make it work for your grandmother as well, if that's what you want.
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