Package: initrd-netboot-tools
Version: 0.5.3cvs.20040906-16
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
Hello,
today I've spend some hours on tracking some weird error messages if
busybox is enabled in /etc/mkinitrd/mkinitrd.conf:
cp: cannot create regular file
`/tmp/mkinitrd.82xcVX/initrd//usr/bin/cut': No such file or directory
cp: cannot create regular file
`/tmp/mkinitrd.82xcVX/initrd//sbin/ifconfig': No such file or directory
cp: cannot create regular file `/tmp/mkinitrd.82xcVX/initrd//bin/grep':
No such file or directory
cp: cannot create regular file
`/tmp/mkinitrd.82xcVX/initrd//usr/bin/head': No such file or directory
cp: cannot create regular file
`/tmp/mkinitrd.82xcVX/initrd//bin/hostname': No such file or directory
cp: cannot create regular file
`/tmp/mkinitrd.82xcVX/initrd//usr/bin/tr': No such file or directory
cp: cannot create regular file
`/tmp/mkinitrd.82xcVX/initrd//sbin/route': No such file or directory
I discovered that these messages are not really an error (the built
initrd is just fine). The error is caused by already existing symlinks
to busybox which isn't in the place (/bin2/busybox) the symlink points
to during build of the initrd.
I attached a patch for /etc/mkinitrd/scripts/netboot (appliable to the
netboot script of initrd-netboot-tools 0.5.3cvs.20040906-16) which lets
the netboot script detect those cases and print out a notice instead of
copying and failing. If you think that this notice might confuse other
users just skip the else clause in the added code. :-)
Yours
Micha
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-686
Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Versions of packages initrd-netboot-tools depends on:
ii initrd-tools 0.1.81.1 tools to create initrd image for p
-- no debconf information
--- netboot.orig 2006-01-28 01:31:22.737829192 +0100
+++ netboot 2006-01-28 01:35:21.852478240 +0100
@@ -62,8 +62,12 @@
copy_initrd_file(){
filename="$1"
- mkdir -p "$(dirname $INITRDDIR/$filename)"
- cp -a "$filename" "$INITRDDIR/$filename"
+ if [ ! -L $INITRDDIR/$filename ]; then
+ mkdir -p "$(dirname $INITRDDIR/$filename)"
+ cp -a "$filename" "$INITRDDIR/$filename"
+ else
+ echo "NOTICE: Skipping copying of $filename, destination is a symbolic
link to $(readlink $INITRDDIR/$filename)"
+ fi
}
# hard-code these two, so old debconf values don't bite us
