[Nix-dev] [Nix-commits] SVN commit: nix - r33000 - in nixos/trunk/modules: . system/boot

[Lluís Batlle i Rossell]

On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 11:25:24PM +0100, Eelco Dolstra wrote:
> On 11/03/12 22:56, Lluís Batlle wrote:
> 
> > Author: viric
> > Date: Sun Mar 11 21:56:47 2012
> > New Revision: 33000
> > URL: https://nixos.org/websvn/nix/?rev=33000&sc=1
> > 
> > Log:
> > A more friendly stage1, with interactive bash, busybox plenty of tools, etc.
> 
> I would have appreciated a bit of review of this patch beforehand.  The initrd
> is not intended as an "interactive" environment so we don't need an interactive
> bash there; if you find yourself spending a lot of time there, you're doing it
> wrong.  And if you're going to add busybox, then it would be better to actually
> *use* it: i.e. replace the current binaries in the initrd with busybox.

Sorry for the direct commit then.

I will change the default to 'false'.

For me the urgency was having something useful at emergency time.