On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 11:40 +0200, Enrico Scholz wrote: > Hello, > > the 'mkinitrd' package contains the '/sbin/nash' program and has > dependencies on lot of low-level stuff (e.g. device-mapper, dmraid, > lvm2). > > 'nash' and this deps are used for different purposes: > > * 'nash' is called by 'initscripts' during every boot it is ?? I didn't realize it was used outside of the initrd (and can't imagine any use for it either) > * the low-level stuff is used during kernel upgrade only actually they are used at each boot as well, just from the initrd itself. > Therefore, they should be packaged separately. why? Both are going to be mandatory anyway.... mkinitrd is when you want to be able to upgrade kernels, or build your own or ... That's a core capability in terms of being able to apply security updates. Being able to do security updates is not optional. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
