Package: debianutils
Version: 2.30
Severity: normal
I've been noticing for a while that running "make install" in my kernel source
tree would consistently replace the symlinks in /boot ("vmlinuz", "System.map"
& co) with plain files, instead of updating the symlinks as one would normaly
expect.
Turns out that there seems to be a bogus test in installkernel:46
This line:
[ "$(readlink -f ${dir}/${1})" = "${dir}/${1}-${ver}" ]
looks wrong. It's an assignment, where a test for (in)equality was presumably
intended.
But then, if the test was meant to check whether the current link points to a
different file than the one being installed, everything goes fine provided that
we are indeed not reinstalling the same kernel version. Otherwise, the
inequality test will fail and we'll fall back to the else clause of the if
statement, leading to plain file creation again. That is because on line 45,
the two tests must be validated to work.
I suggest either plain removing the additional check on line 46 or nesting it.
HTH
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