Bug#403863: [Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#403863: initscripts: Stray file /lib/init/rw/.ramfs not in package list

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Wed, 20 Dec 2006, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Greg Kochanski]
> > The file /lib/init/rw/.ramfs is created, presumably by initscripts.
> > It's not in the package list, and that's not at all a good place to
> > dynamically create a file.  Not to mention, putting a hidden file
> > under /lib is pretty low-class.
> 
> I did not quite get what problem you are describing.  "not a good
> place" and "pretty low-class" do not seem like descriptions of a bug
> nor a problem to me.  They more visualises your personal values, and
> I'm not sure how it is relevant for the boot system.

Well, we *cannot* add the file to the package list, so that's a NAK (won't
fix) for that part.  dpkg doesn't allow us to do it even if we wanted to,
which we don't.

That doesn't mean we should be using a .ramfs file as a marker, though. If
we could ask the kernel directly, that would be MUCH better.

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