On Thu, 2016-01-14 at 11:18 +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > Control: clone 810860 -1 > Control: severity -1 important > Control: reassign -1 initramfs-tools > Control: tag -1 patch > Control: retitle -1 initramfs-tools does not follow recursive symlinks > > initramfs-tools needs this patch to be able to resolve recursive > symlinks, or else the system will not boot while in the middle of > a merged /usr transition. > Then I will add a versioned conflict to the usrmerge package. [...] > > Taking a quick look at it, it looks like validate_init will only handle a > > *single* absolute symlink, but in this particular case there are two > > (absolute) symlinks: > > > > /sbin/init -> /usr/sbin/init > > /usr/sbin/init -> /lib/systemd/systemd [...]
We can't resolve the second symlink until /usr is already mounted, so
recursively reading symlinks is not going to help.
But clearly if /sbin/init is a symlink to somewhere under /usr then we
need to mount it!
Ben.
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