Unwanted RPM dependencies

C. Scott Ananian cscott at laptop.org
Wed Jul 11 09:39:29 EDT 2007


On 6/4/07, David Zeuthen <davidz at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 03:37 -0400, Bernardo Innocenti wrote:
> >  - mkinitrd depends on lvm2 and dmraid.  Both could easily
> >    be made optional.
> You most probably don't need mkinitrd on OLPC as the kernel got all the
> drivers built-in and IIRC OLPC don't even use the initrd (when I was
> working on it, it didn't). So you could have some OLPC specific package
> that provides mkinitrd and symlinks /sbin/mkinitrd -> /bin/true or
> something.

We do/will have an initrd which is used for activation, but it does
not use mkinitrd and certainly doesn't require its binary to be on the
XO.
 --scott

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