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Package: initrd-tools (0.1.84.2)

tools to create initrd image for prepackaged Linux kernel

This package contains tools needed to generate an initrd image suitable for booting a prepackaged Linux kernel image (as shipped with the Debian main distribution). It does not cater for other uses of initrd at the moment.

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    or fileutils (>= 4.1.9)
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    also a virtual package provided by coreutils
    or stat (>= 3.0)
    Package not available
  • dep: cpio
    GNU cpio -- a program to manage archives of files
  • dep: cramfsprogs (>= 1.1-4)
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  • dep: dash
    The Debian Almquist Shell
  • dep: libdevmapper1.02 (>= 2:1.02.02-2)
    The Linux Kernel Device Mapper userspace library
    also a virtual package provided by libdevmapper1.02-udeb
  • dep: util-linux (>= 2.11b-3)
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