Current cpio broken, mangled initrd

Warren Togami warren at togami.com
Sun Jan 16 03:48:42 UTC 2005


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 #. =)

Warren




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