Bug#440176: closed by maximilian attems <max@stro.at> (Re: Bug#440176: mkinitramfs: does not work properly with symlinked config files)

[Sascha Silbe <sascha-debian-bugs@silbe.org>]

On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 10:47:57PM +0000, Debian Bug Tracking System 
wrote:

> > root@oolong:~# ls -l /etc/udev/links.conf
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 35 2007-08-30 14:25 /etc/udev/links.conf -> 
> > ../infra/system-1.0/udev/links.conf
> it seems pretty evident that your /etc/udev/links.conf
> is pointing to /infra/system-1.0/udev/links.conf and not
> /etc/infra/system-1.0/udev/links.conf
As you can see above this is NOT the case (/etc/udev/../infra/whatever = 
/etc/infra/whatever). I have also verified this again on the system 
itself.

Even though symlinking config files might be unusual, I did not find 
anything in the policy or any documentation about this being discouraged 
or unsupported. It worked quite fine in the past, both with Debian and 
with other distributions like Gentoo.
If you tell me which file to examine to find the bug, I'll try to 
provide a patch. This "feature" is quite critical to me.

CU Sascha

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