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Bug#518412: marked as done (initramfs-tools: must support relative paths in modules.dep)

Your message dated Sun, 22 Mar 2009 15:39:10 +0100
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and subject line Bug#518412: initramfs-tools: must support relative paths in modules.dep
has caused the Debian Bug report #518412,
regarding initramfs-tools: must support relative paths in modules.dep
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--- Begin Message --- 
Package: module-init-tools
Version: 3.7-pre5-1 0
Severity: important

Recently kernels I built from upstream kernel source failed to boot
after unpacking them because no modules got included in the initramfs
initrd (and thus no root file system).
This problem was solved after downgrading to m-i-t 3.4.1.

The problem seems to be that depmod, which is run as part of the build,
generates a modules.dep file with incomplete paths. These incomplete paths
in turn cause initramfs-tools to create a broken initrd.

An example line from modules.dep, with old m-i-t:
/lib/modules/2.6.27.19/kernel/arch/s390/crypto/sha512_s390.ko: /lib/modules/2.6.27.19/kernel/arch/s390/crypto/sha_common.ko
With new m-i-t:
kernel/arch/s390/crypto/sha512_s390.ko: kernel/arch/s390/crypto/sha_common.ko


The depmod invocation used in the upstream kernel Makefile is:
      cmd_depmod = \
        if [ -r System.map -a -x $(DEPMOD) ]; then                              \
                $(DEPMOD) -ae -F System.map                                     \
                $(if $(strip $(INSTALL_MOD_PATH)), -b $(INSTALL_MOD_PATH) -r)   \
                $(KERNELRELEASE);                                               \
        fi

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers sid
  APT policy: (500, 'sid')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-rc7 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

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--- Begin Message --- 
We've already shown that there is no issue in initramfs-tools and on 
reflection the requirement to run depmod is not unreasonable.

As the standard Debian maintainer scripts for kernel images already run 
depmod, it would be unreasonable to have i-t do that as well.

Therefore closing.

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