Bug#783282: /bin/touch is missing if built with BUSYBOX=n

[Michael Biebl]

Am 26.04.2015 um 20:40 schrieb Martin Pitt:
> Hello Mike, Michael,
> 
> Michael Biebl [2015-04-25 15:55 +0200]:
>> Am 25.04.2015 um 14:21 schrieb Michael Biebl:
>>> I can reproduce the missing /bin/touch if I build the initramfs without
>>> busybox support. Can you check your /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf
>>> if it contains BUSYBOX=n or if you have a snippet in
>>> /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/ which sets BUSYBOX=n. Can you confirm, that
>>> the missing /bin/touch is due to BUSYBOX=n?
>>
>> The alternative is, that you have BUSYBOX=y, but you've uninstalled the
>> busybox package.
>>
>> Mike, can you confirm that either one of those two is the case?
> 
> I upgraded my server to Jessie today, and run into exactly the same
> problem. busybox has never been installed on that machine, but
> 
> $ grep -r BUSYBOX /etc/initramfs-tools/
> /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf:# BUSYBOX: [ y | n ]
> /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf:BUSYBOX=y
> 
> $ lsinitramfs /initrd.img|grep /touch
> $
> 
> So I suppose for some reason I lost (or never got) busybox in the
> original wheezy install, and as wheezy's i-t already recommends
> busybox it wasn't installed on upgrade. "apt-get --fix-policy install"
> pulls it in.
> 
> Thus, I guess this is at least partially PEBCAK, but I'm not sure why
> I didn't get busybox in wheezy.

I posted a patch at [1], which uses :>, thus doesn't require /bin/touch.

I think it would be worthwile to get this fix into 8.1
Followups to this issue should please go to #783291.

Cheers,
Michael


[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=783291#37


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