Bug#586002: initramfs-tools: should work around 'find -printf %Y' bug

[maximilian attems <max@stro.at>]

tags 586002 pending
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On Tue, 15 Jun 2010, Colin Watson wrote:

> 
> The change to filter out looping or broken symlinks from the initramfs,
> written by me for Ubuntu and applied to Debian for #575157, tickles a
> bug in find (which I think also had an associated Debian bug, but I've
> been unable to find it):
> 
>   https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?29460
> 
> This was fixed in 4.5.8, which is currently only in experimental.  In
> any case findutils is very deep in the dependency chain for upgrades and
> I believe it would be a good idea to avoid requiring a new version of it
> (I've had problems quite recently with strict dependencies on findutils
> causing unresolvable dependency loops).  The following patch works
> around this bug in a reasonably straightforward way.
> 
> diff --git a/mkinitramfs b/mkinitramfs
> index 1c6ad28..e3b392e 100755
> --- a/mkinitramfs
> +++ b/mkinitramfs
> @@ -304,8 +304,8 @@ fi
>  
>  # Remove any looping or broken symbolic links, since they break cpio.
>  [ "${verbose}" = y ] && xargs_verbose="-t"
> -find "${DESTDIR}" -type l -printf '%p %Y\n' | sed -n 's/ [LN]$//p' \
> -	| xargs ${xargs_verbose:-} -rL1 rm -f
> +(cd "${DESTDIR}" && find . -type l -printf '%p %Y\n' | sed -n 's/ [LN]$//p' \
> +	| xargs ${xargs_verbose:-} -rL1 rm -f)
>  
>  [ "${verbose}" = y ] && echo "Building cpio ${outfile} initramfs"
>  (
> 
> Thanks,

findutils debian bug was #576772.

thanks applied and pushed out will be in next release.

-- 
maks