[Mageia-dev] How to Test the new uClibc?

Thierry Vignaud thierry.vignaud at gmail.com
Thu Aug 9 12:40:03 CEST 2012


On 9 August 2012 10:39, Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
>>>>> If busybox tools still work, just go on...
>>>>
>>>> Ping! It's time to make cauldron hot!
>>>
>>> I don't know if you attended that IRC conversation, so let me quote it (I am rindolf):

(...)

>>> So I'm back at square 1, and don't know how to further proceed. If someone more capable than me can take
>>> it upon themselves, then it would be great.

(...)

> Dracut just uses what is on the system, so yeah it'll use glibc unless
> some module pulls it in. There is a busybox module in dracut to allow it
> to be installed but it's not enabled by default AFAICT.
>
>> So I don't think it's that much critical.
>> At worst, we can check that regenerating initrd on a LVM machine still
>> boots.
>
> My machine is an LVM one, so I can likely test this, but as my current
> initrd does not have ulibc in it, I doubt very much this test will show
> anything other than success :)

So since it's largely unused and doesn't affect much, let's update uclibc
and just check that a rebuild busybox tools still work,


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