[Buildroot] [PATCH] target/iso9660/iso9660.mk

Roberto A. Foglietta roberto.foglietta at gmail.com
Fri Nov 21 11:22:37 UTC 2008


2008/11/21 Bernhard Reutner-Fischer <rep.dot.nop at gmail.com>:
> On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 11:48:25AM +0100, Roberto A. Foglietta wrote:
>>2008/11/21 Bernhard Reutner-Fischer <rep.dot.nop at gmail.com>:
>>> On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 11:11:59AM +0100, Roberto A. Foglietta wrote:

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>> touching the initrd means: if you forget to modify menu.lst you will
>>not pay the fee to see your system unable to boot.
>>
>> The question: is there any condition in which touching initrd really
>>hurts somebody? I think the answer is no.
>
> Yes, it hurts since it's an unwarranted inode and adds to the size of
> the image needlessly. It is simply not clean and not the proper thing
> to do.
>>
>> Under this point of view touching initrd save time to skilled users
>>and make things work for those are not such skilled users
>
> I did it a bit differently, fyi.
>

 I happy to know there is a better way to do that.
 Could you post here to for the sake of completeness, please?

 Ciao,
--
/roberto



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