Current cpio broken, mangled initrd

Féliciano Matias feliciano.matias at free.fr
Sun Jan 16 04:11:06 UTC 2005


Le samedi 15 janvier 2005 à 17:48 -1000, Warren Togami a écrit :
> Ralf Ertzinger wrote:
> > Hi.
> > 
> > Just a head up warning: the cpio version distributed yesterday or today (2.6-1
> > or 2.6-2, I am not sure about that) has a bug causing automatic dereferencing
> > of symlinks while packing. This leads to mangled initrd files when new kernels
> > are installed. My system curses a lot, but boots nonetheless, others may not
> > be so lucky :)
> > 
> > This does not affect initrd images already created, of course.
> > Filed in bugzilla.
> > 
> 
> Yikes?  Bug #?  Always include the bug #. =)
> 

Should be this one :
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/beta/show_bug.cgi?id=145225

> Warren
> 
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