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

[Thierry Vignaud]

On 9 August 2012 12:40, Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> If busybox tools still work, just go on...
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>>>>> 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):
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>>>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>>> So I don't think it's that much critical.
>>> At worst, we can check that regenerating initrd on a LVM machine still
>>> boots.
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>> 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 :)
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> 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,

ping?