Bug#866869: initramfs-tools(8): please document that BOOT is exposed to boot scripts

From	Guilhem Moulin <guilhem@debian.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.kernel
Subject	Bug#866869: initramfs-tools(8): please document that BOOT is exposed to boot scripts
Date	2018-08-07 15:10 +0200
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On Sun, 02 Jul 2017 at 12:57:11 +0200, Guilhem Moulin wrote:
> Knowing the boot method can be useful at init-premount and init-bottom
> stages.
> […]
> Please document the variable if boot scripts can rely on the value of
> BOOT.  Otherwise, could you suggest an alternative to rolling out our
> own logic?

Following up on a discussion Ben and I had at DebConf18, what I need for
my use case is a way to know, at init-* stage, the boot script (local
vs. nfs) used to mount the root FS.

-- 
Guilhem.

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