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Package: initramfs-tools
Version: 0.68b
Severity: important
Tags: patch
The .deb's filesystem archive hasn't yet been unpacked when the preinst
runs, so you aren't allowed to depend upon directories shipped in the
.deb existing at that point. Patch attached.
It also occurs to me that this bug may have produced
/etc/initramfs-tools as a regular file, due to this incautious code:
cp /etc/mkinitrd/modules /etc/initramfs-tools
You should append a trailing slash when copying to directories to defend
against this; my patch also does this.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
diff -ru initramfs-tools-0.68b.orig/debian/initramfs-tools.preinst initramfs-tools-0.68b/debian/initramfs-tools.preinst
--- initramfs-tools-0.68b.orig/debian/initramfs-tools.preinst 2006-07-07 10:51:01.000000000 +0100
+++ initramfs-tools-0.68b/debian/initramfs-tools.preinst 2006-07-13 09:34:15.000000000 +0100
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@
case "$1" in
configure)
if [ -n "$2" ]; then
+ mkdir -p /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d
+
# First time install. Can we autodetect the RESUME partition?
RESUME=$(tail -n $(($(wc -l /proc/swaps | awk ' { print $1 } ') - 1)) /proc/swaps | sort -rk3 | head -n 1 | awk ' { print $1 } ')
@@ -18,7 +20,7 @@
# Add initrd-tools modules, while trying to minimize prompting
if [ -e /etc/mkinitrd/modules ]; then
- cp /etc/mkinitrd/modules /etc/initramfs-tools
+ cp /etc/mkinitrd/modules /etc/initramfs-tools/
sed -i \
-e 's/\/etc\/mkinitrd\/modules: Kernel modules to load for initrd./List of modules that you want to include in your initramfs./g' \
-e 's/mkinitrd/update-initramfs/g' \
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Source: initramfs-tools
Source-Version: 0.69b
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
initramfs-tools, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
initramfs-tools_0.69b.dsc
to pool/main/i/initramfs-tools/initramfs-tools_0.69b.dsc
initramfs-tools_0.69b.tar.gz
to pool/main/i/initramfs-tools/initramfs-tools_0.69b.tar.gz
initramfs-tools_0.69b_all.deb
to pool/main/i/initramfs-tools/initramfs-tools_0.69b_all.deb
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to 378089@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
maximilian attems <maks@sternwelten.at> (supplier of updated initramfs-tools package)
(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@debian.org)
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Format: 1.7
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:31:30 +0200
Source: initramfs-tools
Binary: initramfs-tools
Architecture: source all
Version: 0.69b
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: high
Maintainer: Debian kernel team <debian-kernel@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: maximilian attems <maks@sternwelten.at>
Description:
initramfs-tools - tools for generating an initramfs
Closes: 378089
Changes:
initramfs-tools (0.69b) unstable; urgency=high
.
* debian/initramfs-tools.preinst: Don't depend upon shipped directories
to be existing. Thanks Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> for patch.
Add trailing slash to copy command. (closes: 378089)
.
* mkinitramfs: Revert the removal of kernel-package supported lonng param
of 0.65. Readd that plain ugly interface. Warn users they should use
ramdisk=mkinitramfs-kpkg. As kernel-package doesn't yet support
update-initramfs. Thanks Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> for report.
.
* debian/bug: Rename to script so that it shows up in reportbug.
Fix debian/initramfs-tools.install accordingly.
.
* Thus high urgency upload.
Files:
a8e75900458b7d440b1a329bf9bcc544 625 utils optional initramfs-tools_0.69b.dsc
d449a78fb0be008afc24713588fd3be6 42106 utils optional initramfs-tools_0.69b.tar.gz
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