On Tue, 2016-02-16 at 20:40 -0800, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> reassign 795139 linux
> thanks
>
> * Anders Andersson <pipatron@gmail.com> [2015-08-11 00:05]:
> > This is a bug so minor, that I am embarassed to report it. It has, however,
> > bugged me for some time now. After a fresh install of debian jessie, the
> > softlinks from /initrd.img and /vmlinuz points to different locations:
> >
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Aug 10 22:20 initrd.img ->
> > /boot/initrd.img-3.16.0-4-amd64
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Aug 10 22:20 vmlinuz ->
> > boot/vmlinuz-3.16.0-4-amd64
> >
> > Notice how one is to "/boot" (absolute path) and one is to "boot" (relative
> > path).
>
> I believe this is because one is generated by the kernel and one by
> initramfs-tools. I'm reassiging the bug to the kernel so someone
> can comment.
[...]
Both symlinks are created by the kernel postinst scripts. I'm
intending to move that functionality to linux-base, at which point I'll
rewrite it completely because the current code is unsalvageable.
Ben.
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