Re: mkinitrd & relative path

[Alexandre SAUVE <mr.lex@free.fr>]

Hi dear initrd maintainers,

I'd like to make notice of a few caveats with the

    /usr/sbin/mkinitrd  (debian version 0.1.81.1)

command.


1) email address  in the script header 

does not make mention of the  initrd-tools@packages.debian.org
email, so I contacted  Herbert Xu which is not the maintainer for
Debian.


2) bug with mkinitrd & relative path

I ran into trouble when using mkinitrd with relative path,
example :
 
    mkinitrd -o ./my_file
 
With this line the my_file is created into
    
    /tmp/mkinitrd.XXX/my_file

Then gets deleted on mkinitrd exit :-( .
It took me a while to debug and see that it's a CWD related issue.

I may deliver a small patch that fix this issue (keep track of CWD) 
if you wish.


Thanks for your attention.

Have a nice day :)

-- 
Alexandre Sauvé