Bug#358632: initramfs-tools: Lacks a dependency on module-init-tools

[maximilian attems <maks@sternwelten.at>]

tags 358632 pending
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On Thu, 23 Mar 2006, Benjamin Smith wrote:

> When finding the dependencies of the modules listed in
> /etc/mkinitramfs/modules, the mkinitramfs script uses modprobe with the
> --show-depends option, but this option is provided by the modprobe from
> the module-init-tools package, but not the older modutils package.

agreed will fix in next upload.
 
> Moreover the actual call to modprobe in manual_add_modules in
> /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hook-functions includes a "2>/dev/null" so
> the user never sees the error, and doesn't know that no modules have
> been copied into the cpio archive.

the verbose mode of latest update-initramfs will show you which modules
gets added, printing on each run "FATAL: Module af_packet not found."
seems not like a good idea as update-initramfs also targets users
which build in some modules which previously where modules.
(initrd-tools fails with an error message in those cases).
please try: 
update-initramfs -v -u

regards

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maks