Bug#257865: initrd-tools: assembles raid using mdadm with devfs device names even when there's no devfs

[Andreas Kroschel <kro@pobox.com>]

Package: initrd-tools
Version: 0.1.71
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks the whole system


For starting a root software RAID in an initrd, mkinitrd creates a
command in /script to assemble the RAID on startup. With raidtools2,
this works fine. But with mdadm the line reads (example)

mdadm -A /devfs/md/0 -R <uid1:uid2:...> <dev1> <dev2> ...
         ^^^^^^^^^^^
instead of /dev/md0, even when there is no devfs installed. This renders
a system without devfs unbootable, if / is on a raid and the raid
modules are loaded from the initrd.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (20, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.26
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (ignored: LC_ALL set to de_DE.UTF-8)

Versions of packages initrd-tools depends on:
ii  coreutils [fileutils]         5.0.91-2   The GNU core utilities
ii  cpio                          2.5-1.1    GNU cpio -- a program to manage ar
ii  cramfsprogs                   1.1-5      Tools for CramFs (Compressed ROM F
ii  dash                          0.4.26-2   The Debian Almquist Shell
ii  fileutils                     5.0.91-2   The GNU file management utilities 
ii  util-linux                    2.12-3     Miscellaneous system utilities

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