[Mageia-dev] [changelog] [RPM] cauldron nonfree/release drakx-installer-images-1.83-1.mga3.nonfree

Wed Sep 26 18:36:25 CEST 2012

Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud at gmail.com> writes:
+
+> On 17 September 2012 21:37, Olivier Blin <mageia at blino.org> wrote:
+>>> tv <tv> 1.83-1.mga3:
+>>> + Revision: 295551
+>>> - fix modules.order so that cciss got detected (mga#5833)
+>>> - use new hotplug (mga#6323)
+>>
+>> You are duplicating (with full knowledge it seems) the /sbin/hotplug
+>> script written by make_boot_img. As you noticed, it relied on /bin/sh.
+>> The shell used to be provided not only for KA, but also to provide a
+>> convenience shell in stage1.
+>> Couldn't we add a shell back?
+>
+> For years, we only add this shell if DEBUGSTAGE1 was set.
+> This is still the case
+> Then for a couple years, stage1 got bloated with KA stuff including busybox
+> (and thus a shell) by Antoine.
+
+But when KA has been merged in stage1, we meant to keep the shell.
+
+> We're just back at prior state.
+> If you need to debug, you can still rebuild stage1 package with the debug
+> option.
+
+It's not only me, it is also to ease reporting bugs about stage1.
+Otherwise, there is no way to get a look at the debug log from stage1.
+
+-- 
+Olivier Blin - blino
+