(note: for some reason, I didn't get Cascardo's comment and only found it now by revisiting the bug again)
About the issue itself... What's really needed is some way to *opt-out* of the default initrd generation in the postinst script. My suggestion of checking PID-1 root directory is just one example -- it's easy to implement and is used in a package that is installed everywhere (udev). Cascardo's suggestion to do this generation during boot would also solve my problem, but may require an extra boot for others. Even a "debconf" setting that allows skipping this generation would be good -- I'll simply set this override in the chroot before installing all packages. But the current situation is a blocker -- I cannot install this package when creating root-file-system in a chroot, unless I'm willing to totally expose the host "/sys" (which I'm not). Is there any chance to fix this? Just provide some way to skip initrd generation. Oron
