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** Changed in: initramfs-tools (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Incomplete
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1072009
Title:
mkinitramfs does not use cpio -L (--dereference)
Status in initramfs-tools package in Ubuntu:
Incomplete
Bug description:
This may be related to LP#327106, which was recommending to remove
--dereference (but the resolution in that bug doesn't show it being
implemented at that time). Problem is present in Ubuntu 11.10 and
12.04, all I have immediately handy at the moment to check; and
appears to be the same in current 13.04 developmental source.
Consequence: initrd on my 11.10 and 12.04 systems have dangling
symlinks:
$ xzcat /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-32-generic | cpio -itv | grep '. -> /'
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 41 Mar 13 2012
etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-oss.conf -> /lib/linux-sound-base/noOSS.modprobe.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 42 Jul 11 2011
etc/ld.so.conf.d/x86_64-linux-gnu_GL.conf ->
/etc/alternatives/x86_64-linux-gnu_gl_conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 40 Mar 13 2012
etc/ld.so.conf.d/i386-linux-gnu_GL.conf ->
/etc/alternatives/i386-linux-gnu_gl_conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Oct 19 02:50 sbin/mount.ntfs-3g ->
/bin/ntfs-3g
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Oct 19 02:50 sbin/mount.ntfs ->
/bin/ntfs-3g
The `mount.ntfs` links are fine as /bin/ntfs-3g itself exists in the
archive. The other three point to files which do not exist.
I'm not sure if any of them have a *practical* impact. But other
symlinks could exist, depending on system configuration, user meddling
etc.
LP#327106 included patch code which appears to completely fix this
issue. It didn't just get rid of "--dereference", it replaced it with
shell code to reach out and copy the contents of files which would
otherwise have become dangling symlinks. Suggest revisiting that part
of the patch (see
https://launchpadlibrarian.net/22398738/mkinitramfs.diff)
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