Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.98.7 Severity: normal due to a script assignment misplacement mkinitramfs displays a misleading message:
No gzip in /usr/bin:/sbin:/bin, using gzip instead of No lzma in /usr/bin:/sbin:/bin, using gzip this makes difficult to known that it needs lzma executable in the path (I tought xz instead) the attached patch fixes the problem Regards -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-xen-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages initramfs-tools depends on: ii cpio 2.11-6 GNU cpio -- a program to manage ar ii findutils 4.4.2-1+b1 utilities for finding files--find, pn klibc-utils <none> (no description available) ii module-init-tools 3.12-1 tools for managing Linux kernel mo pn udev <none> (no description available) Versions of packages initramfs-tools recommends: pn busybox | busybox-initramfs <none> (no description available) Versions of packages initramfs-tools suggests: pn bash-completion <none> (no description available)
--- /usr/sbin/mkinitramfs.orig 2011-01-25 03:18:04.183906059 +0100 +++ /usr/sbin/mkinitramfs 2011-01-25 03:16:12.529490992 +0100 @@ -136,9 +136,9 @@ if ! command -v "${compress}" >/dev/null 2>&1; then compress=gzip - COMPRESS=gzip [ "${verbose}" = y ] && \ echo "No ${COMPRESS} in ${PATH}, using gzip" + COMPRESS=gzip fi if ! `grep -q -i ^config_rd_${COMPRESS%p} /boot/config-${version}` ; then