* Bastian Blank <wa...@debian.org> [Sam Nov 22, 2008 at 02:06:24 +0100]:
> mkinitramfs always expands symlinks. busybox for example is always added > two times. Verified. busybox is added as /bin/sh as well as /bin/busybox and it also affects some other files (depending on the setup). Even though "ln -s" is used at several places the symlinks aren't part of the resulting initramfs but are normal files instead. The problem is cpio's --dereference option when generating the initramfs inside mkinitramfs. Andreas Korsten pointed me to usr/gen_init_cpio.c in linux kernel source and his https://dev.korsten.org/hg/initramkit which is supposed to handle symlinks. But I think it could be done in current version of mkinitramfs as well, though it's not trivial the way it currently works. I've added this issue to debian/TODO of i-t.git, needs further investigation. regards, -mika-
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