tags 586002 pending stop On Tue, 15 Jun 2010, Colin Watson wrote:
> > 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, findutils debian bug was #576772. thanks applied and pushed out will be in next release. -- maks -- 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/20100616135818.gb14...@stro.at
