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Which programs are using it on a Mageia system +</I>>>>>><i> that I can use to test? +</I>>>>><i> +</I>>>>><i> Not that much. +</I>>>>><i> If busybox tools still work, just go on... +</I>>>><i> +</I>>>><i> Ping! It's time to make cauldron hot! +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> I don't know if you attended that IRC conversation, so let me quote it (I am rindolf): +</I>><i> +</I>><i> I didn't. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> (...) +</I>><i> +</I>>><i> So I'm back at square 1, and don't know how to further proceed. If someone more capable than me can take +</I>>><i> it upon themselves, then it would be great. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> I think's Neoclust worries for nothing. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> There not that much packages using uclibc: +</I>><i> +</I>><i> busybox-1.20.2-1.mga3.src +</I>><i> CCfits-2.4-1.mga3.src +</I>><i> liblzo-2.06-1.mga2.src +</I>><i> libx86-1.1-11.mga2.src +</I>><i> lvm2-2.02.95-5.mga3.src +</I>><i> newt-0.52.14-2.mga3.src +</I>><i> pciutils-3.1.10-1.mga3.src +</I>><i> slang-2.2.4-4.mga3.src +</I>><i> sysfsutils-2.1.0-14.1.mga3.src +</I>><i> util-linux-2.21.2-3.mga3.src +</I>><i> wmbattery-2.40-1.mga2.src +</I>><i> wmfire-1.2.4-1.mga2.src +</I>><i> zlib-1.2.7-4.mga3.src +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Note that of those are unused +</I>><i> (busybox/pciutils/newt/slang/sysfsutils/zlib) unlike +</I>><i> mdv who choose to bloat installer by compiling with uclibc instead of dietlibc +</I>><i> +</I>><i> What's more, the remaining ones (util-linux, lvm2 (maybe busybox?)) were +</I>><i> used with old mkinitrd but I think dracut now use glibc linked ones. +</I>><i> Colin, can you confirm? +</I> +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. + +><i> So I don't think it's that much critical. +</I>><i> At worst, we can check that regenerating initrd on a LVM machine still +</I>><i> boots. +</I> +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 :) + +Cheers + +Col + + + +-- + +Colin Guthrie +colin(at)mageia.org +<A HREF="http://colin.guthr.ie/">http://colin.guthr.ie/</A> + +Day Job: + Tribalogic Limited <A HREF="http://www.tribalogic.net/">http://www.tribalogic.net/</A> +Open Source: + Mageia Contributor <A HREF="http://www.mageia.org/">http://www.mageia.org/</A> + PulseAudio Hacker <A HREF="http://www.pulseaudio.org/">http://www.pulseaudio.org/</A> + Trac Hacker <A HREF="http://trac.edgewall.org/">http://trac.edgewall.org/</A> +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="017998.html">[Mageia-dev] How to Test the new uClibc? +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="018002.html">[Mageia-dev] How to Test the new uClibc? +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#17999">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#17999">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#17999">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#17999">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |