[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#668650: sysvinit: mtab link breaks some setup with initramfs

Roger Leigh rleigh at codelibre.net
Fri Apr 13 21:03:10 UTC 2012


On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 10:19:08PM +0200, Vincent Danjean wrote:
>   As explained in #668616, replacing /etc/mtab by a symlink to /proc/mounts
> can make initramfs unable to create initrd with some setup (ie when MODULES=dep
> that is not the default setup).
>   Can you add "Breaks: initramfs-tools << version_where_668616_will_be_fixed"?
> It will avoid problems during squeeze->wheezy upgrades if package were
> installed in the wrong order with the MODULES=dep initramfs setup.

Yes.  So we just need to wait for a fixed version of initramfs-tools
so that we know the correct << version to Break?


Thanks,
Roger

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