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From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2010 20:57:14 +0200
Subject: [Buildroot] [git commit master 1/1] initramfs: update help text
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On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 13:42:34 +0000 (UTC)
Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> wrote:

> > No, but you could extract the tarball (as root or using fakeroot) and
> > point CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE to it.
> 
> An extracted tarball isn't one of the options either.
> CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE can be pointed at either a cpio archive or the
> source file list.

Or a directory containing the hierarchy of files/directories to include
in the initramfs.

> > But yes, providing a way to generate the cpio archive without building a
> > kernel would be nicer.
> 
> It works fine the way it is.  What's the reason for disabling the
> buildign of a cpio file source list?

It was to fix bug #2119.

Thomas
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