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   <H1>[Mageia-dev] How to Test the new uClibc?</H1>
    <B>Thierry Vignaud</B> 
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    <I>Thu Aug  9 12:40:03 CEST 2012</I>
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<PRE>On 9 August 2012 10:39, Colin Guthrie &lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">mageia at colin.guthr.ie</A>&gt; wrote:
&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> If busybox tools still work, just go on...
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> Ping! It's time to make cauldron hot!
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> I don't know if you attended that IRC conversation, so let me quote it (I am rindolf):
</I>
(...)

&gt;&gt;&gt;<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>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> it upon themselves, then it would be great.
</I>
(...)

&gt;<i> Dracut just uses what is on the system, so yeah it'll use glibc unless
</I>&gt;<i> some module pulls it in. There is a busybox module in dracut to allow it
</I>&gt;<i> to be installed but it's not enabled by default AFAICT.
</I>&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> So I don't think it's that much critical.
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> At worst, we can check that regenerating initrd on a LVM machine still
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> boots.
</I>&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;<i> My machine is an LVM one, so I can likely test this, but as my current
</I>&gt;<i> initrd does not have ulibc in it, I doubt very much this test will show
</I>&gt;<i> 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,
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