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

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,
+