Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.96.1 Severity: normal Tags: patch User: ubuntu-de...@lists.ubuntu.com Usertags: origin-ubuntu ubuntu-patch maverick
The change to filter out looping or broken symlinks from the initramfs, written by me for Ubuntu and applied to Debian for #575157, tickles a bug in find (which I think also had an associated Debian bug, but I've been unable to find it): https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?29460 This was fixed in 4.5.8, which is currently only in experimental. In any case findutils is very deep in the dependency chain for upgrades and I believe it would be a good idea to avoid requiring a new version of it (I've had problems quite recently with strict dependencies on findutils causing unresolvable dependency loops). The following patch works around this bug in a reasonably straightforward way. diff --git a/mkinitramfs b/mkinitramfs index 1c6ad28..e3b392e 100755 --- a/mkinitramfs +++ b/mkinitramfs @@ -304,8 +304,8 @@ fi # Remove any looping or broken symbolic links, since they break cpio. [ "${verbose}" = y ] && xargs_verbose="-t" -find "${DESTDIR}" -type l -printf '%p %Y\n' | sed -n 's/ [LN]$//p' \ - | xargs ${xargs_verbose:-} -rL1 rm -f +(cd "${DESTDIR}" && find . -type l -printf '%p %Y\n' | sed -n 's/ [LN]$//p' \ + | xargs ${xargs_verbose:-} -rL1 rm -f) [ "${verbose}" = y ] && echo "Building cpio ${outfile} initramfs" ( Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100615155612.gy21...@riva.ucam.org
