On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 11:16:38AM +0200, Sascha Silbe wrote: > As you can see above this is NOT the case (/etc/udev/../infra/whatever = > /etc/infra/whatever). I have also verified this again on the system > itself.
check your allegations before coming back. > Even though symlinking config files might be unusual, I did not find > anything in the policy or any documentation about this being discouraged > or unsupported. It worked quite fine in the past, both with Debian and > with other distributions like Gentoo. > If you tell me which file to examine to find the bug, I'll try to > provide a patch. This "feature" is quite critical to me. afais your box is broken, easily reprucible with: echo "cp -a /etc/alternatives $DESTDIR/etc/" >> /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/udev update-initramfs -u update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.23-rc4-amd64 cpio: ./etc/alternatives/lvm-default: Cannot stat: No such file or directory ls -l /etc/alternatives/lvm-default lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 2007-08-30 19:05 /etc/alternatives/lvm-default -> /lib/lvm-200 ls -l /lib/lvm-200 ls: /lib/lvm-200: No such file or directory mkdir /tmp/bla && cd /tmp/bla gunzip -c -9 /boot/initrd.img-2.6.23-rc4-amd64 \ | cpio -i -d -H newc --no-absolute-filenames ls -l etc/alternatives/ | head total 25862 -rwxr-xr-x 1 max max 338480 2007-09-07 12:00 awk -rw-r--r-- 1 max max 25106 2007-09-07 12:00 awk.1.gz -rwxr-xr-x 1 max max 1125 2007-09-07 12:00 btcompletedir -rw-r--r-- 1 max max 1028 2007-09-07 12:00 btcompletedir.1.gz -rwxr-xr-x 1 max max 8024 2007-09-07 12:00 btdownloadcurses -rw-r--r-- 1 max max 2074 2007-09-07 12:00 btdownloadcurses.1.gz -rwxr-xr-x 1 max max 4780 2007-09-07 12:00 btdownloadheadless -rw-r--r-- 1 max max 2074 2007-09-07 12:00 btdownloadheadless.1.gz -rwxr-xr-x 1 max max 9157 2007-09-07 12:00 btlaunchmany so everything is there and don't start telling me that /etc/alternatives is not symlink infested :P -- maks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
