Bug#440176: closed by maximilian attems <max@stro.at> (Re: Bug#440176: mkinitramfs: does not work properly with symlinked config files)
On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 11:16:38AM +0200, Sascha Silbe wrote:
> 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.
check your allegations before coming back.
> 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.
afais your box is broken, easily reprucible with:
echo "cp -a /etc/alternatives $DESTDIR/etc/" >> /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/udev
update-initramfs -u
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.23-rc4-amd64
cpio: ./etc/alternatives/lvm-default: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
ls -l /etc/alternatives/lvm-default
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 2007-08-30 19:05 /etc/alternatives/lvm-default
-> /lib/lvm-200
ls -l /lib/lvm-200
ls: /lib/lvm-200: No such file or directory
mkdir /tmp/bla && cd /tmp/bla
gunzip -c -9 /boot/initrd.img-2.6.23-rc4-amd64 \
| cpio -i -d -H newc --no-absolute-filenames
ls -l etc/alternatives/ | head
total 25862
-rwxr-xr-x 1 max max 338480 2007-09-07 12:00 awk
-rw-r--r-- 1 max max 25106 2007-09-07 12:00 awk.1.gz
-rwxr-xr-x 1 max max 1125 2007-09-07 12:00 btcompletedir
-rw-r--r-- 1 max max 1028 2007-09-07 12:00 btcompletedir.1.gz
-rwxr-xr-x 1 max max 8024 2007-09-07 12:00 btdownloadcurses
-rw-r--r-- 1 max max 2074 2007-09-07 12:00 btdownloadcurses.1.gz
-rwxr-xr-x 1 max max 4780 2007-09-07 12:00 btdownloadheadless
-rw-r--r-- 1 max max 2074 2007-09-07 12:00 btdownloadheadless.1.gz
-rwxr-xr-x 1 max max 9157 2007-09-07 12:00 btlaunchmany
so everything is there and don't start telling me that
/etc/alternatives is not symlink infested :P
--
maks
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