* Thomas Bächler <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [02.02.2010 19:13]: > Am 24.01.2010 18:05, schrieb Thomas Bächler: > > Quoted from http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/17298 (which is also to be > > used for feedback, besides the threads on these mailing lists): > > > > So, now something can be tested. I recommend using it in conjunction > > with testing/udev only: > > > > [kill-klibc] > > Server = http://dev.archlinux.org/~thomas/kill-klibc/i686/ > > > > or > > > > [kill-klibc] > > Server = http://dev.archlinux.org/~thomas/kill-klibc/x86_64/ > > > > The standard hooks work, so do keymap, lvm2, encrypt. What does NOT work > > is raid/mdadm/dmraid and root on NFS. I would appreciate any input and > > patches w.r.t. those, as well as any testing. The v86d package also > > needs to be fixed, but that is trivial. > > > > device-mapper, lvm2 and cryptsetup have a weird "1.local" pkgrel so they > > won't collide with the ones from the repo, sorry if that bothers anyone. > > > > If you upgrade to this repositories, your existing mkinitcpio will be > > replaced and all klibc packages will be gone too. So, if you try it, > > please save your existing initramfs to a different filename as a > > fallback, and do not perform kernel upgrades until you either confirmed > > that it works, or downgraded to the klibc-based mkinitcpio. > > Bump! Virtually nobody has performed any testing (except the people I > poked about it). Also, I still don't have fixed raid or dmraid hooks, > nor any suggestion for implementing root on NFS (of the last three, I > use neither). I could write raid, but I have no idea if it will work. I > don't know what exactly needs to be done in the NFS case, because that > was all hidden inside "ipconfig" from klibc. > > The part that works (standard hooks, keymap, cryptsetup, lvm2) has been > 100% stable and has worked perfectly for all of the testers so far > (which aren't many, so you never know). > > Note that the klibc-based mkinitcpio has problems which will never be > fixed (because I can't fix them, or don't want to fix them), some of > which are already fixed in the 0.6 branch. > > One example is the lack of vfat detection in fstype, which affects > people who want to put archiso on vfat volumes - this is no problem > because we use blkid now. I am sure there are more examples. > I simply refuse to put more time into something that is entirely broken > and can't even be rebuilt against our current kernel headers (yes, the > last time klibc was successfully rebuilt was against 2.6.29 iirc, the > version I built against 2.6.31 works on x86_64, but not on i686). > Grützi I use your kill-klibc repo on i686 and I just want to confirm, that it works with % cat /etc/mkinitcpio.conf MODULES="" HOOKS="base udev pata uresume filesystems" No problems so far, except http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Udev#Auto_mounting_USB_devices don't work anymore, this worked with the packages from the official repos. I have to find another nice way to automount my drives without hal, but that's another topic. Greetz Army
