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Diffstat (limited to 'sys-apps/mkinitrd/metadata.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | sys-apps/mkinitrd/metadata.xml | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/sys-apps/mkinitrd/metadata.xml b/sys-apps/mkinitrd/metadata.xml index 1407b7d04f88..3012f8d0de45 100644 --- a/sys-apps/mkinitrd/metadata.xml +++ b/sys-apps/mkinitrd/metadata.xml @@ -7,5 +7,11 @@ <name>Chris PeBenito</name> <description>Maintainer</description> </maintainer> -<longdescription>Mkinitrd creates initial ramdisks for use when the kernel first loads.</longdescription> +<longdescription> +Mkinitrd creates filesystem images for use as initial ramdisk (initrd) +images. These ramdisk images are often used to preload the block +device modules (SCSI, RAID or LVM) needed to access the root filesystem. + +Mkinitrd also does the inital policy load for SELinux users. +</longdescription> </pkgmetadata> |