Bug#459445: initramfs-tools: update-initramfs does not consider latest kernel by default

[maximilian attems <max@stro.at>]

On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 07:50:02PM +0100, Julien Valroff wrote:
> 
> Le dimanche 06 janvier 2008 à 19:18 +0100, maximilian attems a écrit :
> > > when running update-initramfs without specifying a kernel version (-k), the
> > > default version should be the latest kernel version (according to manpage).
> > > 
> > > It is not in my case:
> > >   $ ls /var/lib/initramfs-tools/
> > >   2.6.22-3-amd64  2.6.23-1-amd64
> > > 
> > >   $ ls /boot/initrd.*
> > >   /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-3-amd64      /boot/initrd.img-2.6.23-1-amd64
> > >   /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-3-amd64.bak  /boot/initrd.img-2.6.23-1-amd64.bak
> > 
> > please send in output of
> > ls -l /
> 
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root    30 2007-10-31 21:19 initrd.img -> boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-3-amd64
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root    30 2007-10-20 08:53 initrd.img.old -> boot/initrd.img-2.6.23-1-amd64
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root    27 2007-10-31 21:19 vmlinuz -> boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-3-amd64
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root    27 2007-10-20 08:53 vmlinuz.old -> boot/vmlinuz-2.6.23-1-amd64
> 
> I think I now understand - but it is obscure for me why this is so as
> kernel 2.6.23 has been installed and configured after 2.6.22 (which is
> still present as a dependency for linux-image-2.6-amd64)

yep aboves is not an initramfs-tools bug, the symlinks are wrong.
 
> Cheers,
> Julien

bonne soiree

-- 
maks