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

Mon Aug 27 11:03:42 CEST 2012

On 9 August 2012 12:40, Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud at gmail.com> 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,
+
+ping?
+