Summary: | app-misc/livecd-tools - support disabling the "Updating inittab" Feature | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Release Media | Reporter: | Timothy Golden <whytar_regis> |
Component: | LiveCD/DVD/USB | Assignee: | Gentoo Release Team <releng> |
Status: | RESOLVED WORKSFORME | ||
Severity: | enhancement | CC: | bkohler, zerochaos |
Priority: | Normal | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | AMD64 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Whiteboard: | |||
Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- |
Description
Timothy Golden
2009-04-03 22:24:07 UTC
Personally, I'd think it would make more sense to poke the baselayout people add a /proc/cmdline flag to not call the function in the first place. I already did and I was referred to send the request to the livecd people. This is the forum posting. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-751673.html I see your point, but I'm not sure yet whether we will actually address this issue. The people that maintain livecd-tools (as well as a number of other tools used for building of release materials) are busy people and have our own priorities. In the mean time, there's a few things here you can do yourself: * patch livecd-tools for your own use * don't use livecd-tools at all * realize it's intended for use by release engineering to build official gentoo release media and stop complaining It's also possible that you can work around this issue relatively simply by "fixing" the inittab in /etc/conf.d/local.start and telling init to reload. I have already used the work around (see first posting) for my application CD. I never expected it to be a high priority. Some of the other functions such as hardware detection are important to my application CD not using the tools completely would not work. It is just a "Wish List" type item, and on the forums It was recommended that I make the request here. this is already optional, just don't start the fixinittab script at boot. I have fixinittab|del in my spec files for just this reason. Per @jmbsvicetto: I am re-opening this bug. We need to look further into the uses of fixinittab and determine if we still need it at all. It may be a relic we can remove from livecd-tools. (In reply to William Hubbs from comment #6) > Per @jmbsvicetto: > I am re-opening this bug. We need to look further into the uses of > fixinittab and determine if we still need it at all. It may be a relic > we can remove from livecd-tools. At the very least it's used for tty autologin that we depend on. It also sets up various types of serial/ilom consoles for other arches. Re-open if you think there's anything to do here, and give a hint as to what that should be. |