Bug#493863: closed by maximilian attems <max@stro.at> (Re: firmware-bnx2: doesn't rebuild all initrds)

[Peter Palfrader <weasel@debian.org>]

maximilian attems schrieb am Sonntag, dem 29. März 2009:

> On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 08:25:46PM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote:
> > maximilian attems schrieb am Sonntag, dem 29. März 2009:
> > 
> > > > It didn't update the newest initramfs - for 2.6.24.  It updated the one
> > > > it was running at the time - 2.6.18.
> > > 
> > > sure you had the initrd symlink pointing to that one.
> > > so it got attributed as the newest. 
> > 
> > I don't have symlinks.
> 
> please post on that box output of
> sh -x update-initramfs -u

Ah.  there were symlinks in / - tho they were never ever used on this
system.

Seems pretty broken to rely on symlinks that might (and are) years out
of date.
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