FS#4779 - kernel26 shouldn't depend on both mkinitrd and mkinitcpio

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by name withheld (Gullible Jones) - Monday, 05 June 2006, 10:33 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Testing
Status Closed
Assigned To Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Architecture not specified
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7.2 Gimmick
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

IMHO, it would be better to drop the dependency for both, since mkinitrd is part of the base install, and just stick with the warning about mkinitrd being deprecated. Or perhaps have it depend on "initrd", which both mkinitcpio and mkinitrd would provide.
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Closed by  arjan timmerman (blaasvis)
Thursday, 22 June 2006, 14:07 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Additional comments about closing:  this is ment this way
Comment by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Monday, 05 June 2006, 11:31 GMT
in the end mkinitrd will be replaced by mkinitcpio, we don't want to force the people now to use mkinitcpio because it wasn't tested that much. Giving the ppl time to still use the old well documented one from install process and possibility to change to new one.
Comment by name withheld (Gullible Jones) - Monday, 05 June 2006, 18:56 GMT
In that case mkinitrd users shouldn't have to install mkinitcpio.
Comment by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Tuesday, 06 June 2006, 06:57 GMT
the people who want to migrate should already do it,
in 1 month or later mkinitrd will be dropped so ppl who already made the transition don't need to worry about it anymore.
so both depends are usefull.

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