update-initramfs hook copy_exec won't overwrite
Bug #582646 reported by
Carey Underwood
This bug affects 1 person
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| initramfs-tools (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
/usr/share/
What I want to do is:
copy_exec /usr/bin/btrfsctl /sbin
copy_exec /usr/local/
And have the second one win. This way I can eventually use btrfs-tools once it's up to date (and no longer a moving target upstream), while still using the current version compiled from git on a very frequent basis.
The current behavior will silently break the boot when one or the other ceases to exist at best, and end up including a potentially broken utility in the worst case.
Revision history for this message
| Carey Underwood (cwillu) wrote | #1 |
| affects: | ubuntu → initramfs-tools (Ubuntu) |
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Issue exists in karmic and lucid; replacing the if statement with a unconditional "ln -sf" gets useful behaviour.