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Diffstat (limited to 'debian/control')
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1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control index a9d0e90..24d1bdc 100644 --- a/debian/control +++ b/debian/control @@ -8,13 +8,13 @@ Standards-Version: 3.7.2.0 Package: initramfs-tools Architecture: all -Depends: klibc-utils (>= 1.4.8-0), busybox (>= 1:1.01-3) | busybox-cvs-static (>= 20040623-1), cpio, module-init-tools, udev (>= 0.086-1) +Depends: klibc-utils (>= 1.4.11-1), busybox (>= 1:1.01-3) | busybox-cvs-static (>= 20040623-1), cpio, module-init-tools, udev (>= 0.086-1) Provides: linux-initramfs-tool Description: tools for generating an initramfs - This package contains tools to create and boot an initramfs for prepackaged - 2.6 Linux kernel. The initramfs is a gzipped cpio archive. At boot time, the + This package contains tools to create and boot an initramfs for packaged 2.6 + Linux kernel. The initramfs is a gzipped cpio archive. At boot time, the kernel unpacks that archive into RAM, mounts and uses it as initial root file - system. From there on the mounting of the real root file system occurs in user - space. klibc handles the boot-time networking setup. Having the root on NFS - is also supported. + system. The mounting of the real root file system occurs in early user space. + klibc provides utilities to setup root. Having the root on EVMS, MD, LVM2, + LUKS or NFS is also supported. Any boot loader with initrd support is able to load an initramfs archive. |