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Bug#493070: marked as done (initramfs-tools: update-initramfs overwrites symbolic link)

Your message dated Fri, 26 Mar 2010 21:00:43 +0100
with message-id <20100326200043.GD22870@baikonur.stro.at>
and subject line Re: initramfs-tools: update-initramfs overwrites symbolic link
has caused the Debian Bug report #493070,
regarding initramfs-tools: update-initramfs overwrites symbolic link
to be marked as done.

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Package: initramfs-tools
Version: 0.85i
Severity: normal

Hello,

update-initramfs uses mkinitramfs to create a temporary file containing the
new ramdisk and then moves (mv -f) that file to the final destination
/boot/initrd.img-$version. If /boot/initrd.img-$version has been a symbolic
link before(maybe because /etc/kernel-img.conf contains: reverse_symlinks = Yes),
mv -f removes the link and replaces it by a file. That is probably not
wanted by users who use reverse symlinks. So, I suggest to use "cp -f" and
"rm -f" instead of "mv -f".

Regards
  Christoph  

-- Package-specific info:
-- /proc/cmdline
root=/dev/sda1 ro

-- /proc/filesystems
	ext3

-- lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
i915                   22144  2 
drm                    74324  3 i915
nfs                   228264  0 
vboxdrv                70304  0 
nfsd                  204432  17 
lockd                  60968  3 nfs,nfsd
nfs_acl                 3584  2 nfs,nfsd
auth_rpcgss            39904  1 nfsd
sunrpc                171484  11 nfs,nfsd,lockd,nfs_acl,auth_rpcgss
exportfs                4832  1 nfsd
ppdev                   8900  0 
lp                     11204  0 
ac                      6212  0 
battery                13700  0 
xt_pkttype              1984  2 
xt_tcpudp               3264  7 
ipt_REDIRECT            2176  0 
ipt_REJECT              4608  0 
ipt_LOG                 6176  12 
xt_limit                2720  13 
xt_state                2528  6 
iptable_mangle          2880  0 
iptable_nat             7044  0 
nf_nat                 18700  2 ipt_REDIRECT,iptable_nat
iptable_filter          3040  1 
nf_conntrack_ipv4      17544  8 iptable_nat
nf_conntrack           62656  4 xt_state,iptable_nat,nf_nat,nf_conntrack_ipv4
ip_tables              13316  3 iptable_mangle,iptable_nat,iptable_filter
x_tables               14372  9 xt_pkttype,xt_tcpudp,ipt_REDIRECT,ipt_REJECT,ipt_LOG,xt_limit,xt_state,iptable_nat,ip_tables
ipv6                  242212  24 
loop                   16996  0 
snd_hda_intel         274848  0 
parport_pc             26340  1 
parport                34472  3 ppdev,lp,parport_pc
floppy                 54724  0 
rtc                    13148  0 
i2c_i801                9456  0 
snd_pcm_oss            38368  0 
snd_mixer_oss          15424  1 snd_pcm_oss
pcspkr                  3264  0 
i2c_core               22656  1 i2c_i801
snd_pcm                72036  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss
iTCO_wdt               11396  0 
snd_seq_dummy           3844  0 
snd_seq_oss            29632  0 
snd_seq_midi            8256  0 
snd_rawmidi            22816  1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event      7040  2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
container               4960  0 
snd_seq                46736  6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer              21348  2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device          7948  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
button                  8528  0 
intel_agp              23540  1 
snd                    48772  9 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
agpgart                31912  3 drm,intel_agp
soundcore               7680  1 snd
snd_page_alloc         10184  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
evdev                  11200  1 
ext3                  123272  5 
jbd                    43892  1 ext3
mbcache                 8480  1 ext3
dm_mirror              21792  0 
dm_snapshot            17060  0 
dm_mod                 56004  2 dm_mirror,dm_snapshot
ide_cd                 36352  0 
cdrom                  32672  1 ide_cd
sd_mod                 27296  7 
generic                 4484  0 [permanent]
piix                    7556  0 [permanent]
ide_core              108740  3 ide_cd,generic,piix
usbhid                 28032  0 
hid                    34400  1 usbhid
ata_generic             7556  0 
ata_piix               17380  6 
libata                144560  2 ata_generic,ata_piix
scsi_mod              141516  2 sd_mod,libata
ehci_hcd               32556  0 
uhci_hcd               23568  0 
usbcore               127724  4 usbhid,ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd
tg3                    89316  0 
thermal                16092  0 
processor              36840  1 thermal
fan                     4868  0 

-- kernel-img.conf
do_bootfloppy = no
do_bootloader = no
do_symlinks = no
warn_initrd = no
postinst_hook = /usr/sbin/update-grub
postrm_hook   = /usr/sbin/update-grub


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-etchnhalf.1-686
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages initramfs-tools depends on:
ii  busybox                   1:1.1.3-4      Tiny utilities for small and embed
ii  cpio                      2.6-18.1+etch1 GNU cpio -- a program to manage ar
ii  klibc-utils               1.4.34-2       small statically-linked utilities 
ii  module-init-tools         3.3-pre4-2     tools for managing Linux kernel mo
ii  udev                      0.105-irb4.0   /dev/ and hotplug management daemo

initramfs-tools recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information

--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message --- 
> /etc/kernel-img.conf contains: reverse_symlinks = Yes

this is so broken and not supported anymore.

afair killed any usage of it in linux-2.6 for long time ago.
not sure if recent kernel-package supports it.
apparently not, not even mentioned in kernel-img.conf

closing as this is not meant to work.

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