Debian Bug report logs - #238721
initrd-tools: manual incorrect regarding vanilla kernel cramfs support

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Jeremy Jackson <jerj@coplanar.net>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: initrd-tools: manual incorrect regarding vanilla kernel cramfs support

Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 11:40:27 -0500

Package: initrd-tools
Version: 0.1.62
Severity: minor

the man page for mkinitrd states that CRAMFS is not supported by 
(vanilla) Linux.  However, the generated images work just fine for at 
least 2.4.23 if you append "ramdisk_blocksize=4096" to the kernel 
command line.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.0
 APT prefers testing
 APT policy: (400, 'testing'), (300, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.23-jerj1-k7
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
                                                                              

Versions of packages initrd-tools depends on:
ii  cpio                          2.4.2-39   GNU cpio -- a program to 
manage ar
ii  cramfsprogs                   1.1-5      Tools for CramFs 
(Compressed ROM F
ii  dash                          0.4.24     The Debian Almquist Shell
ii  fileutils                     4.1-10     GNU file management utilities
ii  stat                          3.3-2      wrapper for stat() and 
statfs call
ii  util-linux                    2.11n-7    Miscellaneous system utilities.
                                                                               

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Message #10 received at 238721@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>

To: Jeremy Jackson <jerj@coplanar.net>, 238721@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#238721: initrd-tools: manual incorrect regarding vanilla kernel cramfs support

Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 12:56:14 +1100

tags 238721 pending
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On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 11:40:27AM -0500, Jeremy Jackson wrote:
> Package: initrd-tools
> Version: 0.1.62
> Severity: minor
> 
> the man page for mkinitrd states that CRAMFS is not supported by 
> (vanilla) Linux.  However, the generated images work just fine for at 
> least 2.4.23 if you append "ramdisk_blocksize=4096" to the kernel 
> command line.

Thank you.  I'll remove the offending sentences.
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Message #17 received at 238721-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>

To: 238721-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#238721: fixed in initrd-tools 0.1.63

Date: Sat, 03 Apr 2004 00:17:02 -0500

Source: initrd-tools
Source-Version: 0.1.63

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
initrd-tools, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

initrd-tools_0.1.63.dsc
  to pool/main/i/initrd-tools/initrd-tools_0.1.63.dsc
initrd-tools_0.1.63.tar.gz
  to pool/main/i/initrd-tools/initrd-tools_0.1.63.tar.gz
initrd-tools_0.1.63_all.deb
  to pool/main/i/initrd-tools/initrd-tools_0.1.63_all.deb



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 238721@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org> (supplier of updated initrd-tools package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
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Format: 1.7
Date: Sat,  3 Apr 2004 15:01:38 +1000
Source: initrd-tools
Binary: initrd-tools
Architecture: source all
Version: 0.1.63
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>
Changed-By: Herbert Xu <herbert@debian.org>
Description: 
 initrd-tools - Tools to generate an initrd image for a Debian kernel.
Closes: 236404 236523 238205 238514 238721 240734 241051 241365
Changes: 
 initrd-tools (0.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * Fixed typo that breaks DM under 2.4 (Dennis Vshivkov, closes: #236404).
   * Added support for DASD (Bastian Blank, closes: #236523).
   * Include reference to Debian kernel in short description.
   * Fixed path to unix in add_modules_most.
   * Removed note about CRAMFS support in vanilla kernels (closes: #238721).
   * Add inactive MD constituent devices as well (closes: #238514).
   * Removed /dev/evms check as it is wrong and obsolete.
   * Include lvm.conf for LVM2 (closes: #238205).
   * Fixed hard-coded ide-mod in init script (closes: #240734).
   * Added support for ide-generic (closes: #241365).
   * Replaced all occurrences of tmpfs with ramfs.
   * Fixed misspelling in mkinitrd.conf(5).
   * Make /bin invisible to kernel (closes: #241051).
   * Chdir into $dir instead of using $dir everywhere.
   * Create empty mtab to shut umount up.
   * Default to LVM1 instead of LVM2.
Files: 
 3ed4fc10193e42d0be83f7cb3e3bf081 639 utils optional initrd-tools_0.1.63.dsc
 c552f6a8c66525998f540708ecb9b4ad 19873 utils optional initrd-tools_0.1.63.tar.gz
 cfee80d5d7c633492b58a95464d529b0 23706 utils optional initrd-tools_0.1.63_all.deb

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