Bug#762870: initramfs-tools: fails to boot after upgrade from 0.116 to 0.117

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Subject: Bug#762870: initramfs-tools: fails to boot after upgrade from 0.116 to 0.117
From: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 14:59:28 +0200
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-f: No such file or directory


I believe this was caused by:
http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/kernel/initramfs-tools.git/commit/?id=be18fee1bd52

The readlink command in initramfs doesn't seem to support -f:

$ readlink -f /
-f: No such file or directory

--
Jakub Wilk

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- Bug#762870: initramfs-tools: fails to boot after upgrade from 0.116 to 0.117
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