Bug#624702: initramfs-tools: mkinitramfs doesn't honor setting of BOOTDIR when searching for config-... files

[Stirling Westrup <swestrup@gmail.com>]

Package: initramfs-tools
Version: 0.98.8
Severity: normal



-- Package-specific info:
-- initramfs sizes
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4548542 Apr 22 10:19 /boot/OS/00_Debian/initrd.img-2.6.34-zen1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3655239 Apr 22 10:19 /boot/OS/00_Debian/initrd.img-2.6.36
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3378621 Apr 22 10:19 /boot/OS/00_Debian/initrd.img-2.6.36-zen2-sti-02
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3244997 Apr 30 13:46 /boot/OS/00_Debian/initrd.img-2.6.36-zen2-sti-03
-- /proc/cmdline
BOOT_IMAGE=/OS/00_Debian/vmlinuz-2.6.36-zen2-sti-03 root=LABEL=Debian-Root ro video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr:2 fbcon=scrollback:128 vga=0x318

-- resume
RESUME=/dev/hdb3
-- /proc/filesystems
	reiserfs
	ext3
	ext2
	ext4
	vfat
	msdos
	iso9660
	udf
	jfs
	xfs
	ocfs2
	gfs2
	gfs2meta
	fuseblk

-- lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
nvidia              10277077  38 
vboxnetadp              5420  0 
vboxnetflt             14681  0 
bluetooth              56557  2 
ipv6                  263078  50 
bridge                 62594  0 
stp                     1887  1 bridge
llc                     4645  2 bridge,stp
i2c_i801                7723  0 
ioatdma                37622  0 
dca                     6122  1 ioatdma
vhba                    7829  2 
coretemp                4614  0 
hwmon_vid               2891  0 
fuse                   66720  1 
vboxdrv              1790232  2 vboxnetadp,vboxnetflt

-- /etc/initramfs-tools/modules

-- /etc/kernel-img.conf
# Kernel image management overrides
# See kernel-img.conf(5) for details
do_symlinks = yes
relative_links = yes
do_bootloader = no
do_bootfloppy = no
do_initrd = yes
link_in_boot = no

-- /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf
MODULES=most
BUSYBOX=y
KEYMAP=n
COMPRESS=gzip
BOOT=local
DEVICE=
NFSROOT=auto

-- /etc/initramfs-tools/update-initramfs.conf
update_initramfs=yes
backup_initramfs=no
BOOTDIR=/boot/OS/00_Debian

-- mkinitramfs hooks
/etc/initramfs-tools/hooks/:

/usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks:
busybox
dmraid
dmsetup
keymap
klibc
lvm2
thermal
udev
v86d


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (600, 'unstable'), (550, 'experimental'), (500, 'oldstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.36-zen2-sti-03 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages initramfs-tools depends on:
ii  cpio                          2.11-7     GNU cpio -- a program to manage ar
ii  findutils                     4.4.2-1+b1 utilities for finding files--find,
ii  klibc-utils                   1.5.21-1   small utilities built with klibc f
ii  module-init-tools             3.12-1     tools for managing Linux kernel mo
ii  udev                          168-1      /dev/ and hotplug management daemo

Versions of packages initramfs-tools recommends:
ii  busybox                       1:1.18.4-2 Tiny utilities for small and embed

Versions of packages initramfs-tools suggests:
ii  bash-completion               1:1.3-1    programmable completion for the ba

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/initramfs-tools/update-initramfs.conf changed:
update_initramfs=yes
backup_initramfs=no
BOOTDIR=/boot/OS/00_Debian


-- no debconf information