[pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#591853: Bug#591853: cryptsetup: initramfs script uses sed without warranty

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

On ven., 2010-08-06 at 00:13 +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-08-05 at 23:57 +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> > Except that cryptsetup doesn't depend on busybox, it only suggests it.
> > In fact I guess that's because it only uses sed in cryptroot+lvm2 cases,
> > but I think it doesn't really hurt to add a depends.
> Well I guess it would be too much if cryptsetup depends on
> initramfs-tools and/or busybox.
> 
> You can pretty well use it without having your root-fs encrypted and I
> guess that's the only case where you need it.

Yes, I guess so


> Not sure whether recommends would be really better here...

Except that it's *mandatory* for booting in that case.
> 
> 
> You'll have to wait for Jonas' verdict, but it seems from several bugs,
> that having the root-fs encrypted is intended to be only very limited
> supported (e.g. the #589641)

Encrypted root is proposed in the installer, so I hope we can manage a
real support.

Another way would be to not use sed at all at that point, but the basic
shell (not even busybox in that case) might have issues with that. Why
not copy sed then?

Another thing is that, afair, I only saw the busybox warning when
rebuilding the initramfs from the booted system, not when chrooted in
the debootstrap target.

Cheers,
-- 
Yves-Alexis
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