On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 11:16 PM, Bryan Kadzban
<br...@kadzban.is-a-geek.net> wrote:
> mkinitramfs does not preserve the symlink. If ldd reported
> /lib64/libreadline.so.6, then mkinitramfs should have generated a line
> like so:
>
> file /lib64/libreadline.so.6 /lib64/libreadline.so.6 0755 0 0
>
> which *should* (or at least, does for me) cause gen_init_cpio to copy
> the contents of the target file. The soname symlinks are not required
> inside the initramfs because there's no point in upgrading the libraries
> in one; as long as the filename exists, though, everything should work.
I'll add the changes that I made for the creation for /lib64 to the script.
> Which comes back to the other issue, I guess. Have to see what the
> script is putting into the cpio archive. (Or actually, maybe hacking on
> the script to dump what it echos into a temp file instead of into
> gen_init_cpio's stdin, would work better.)
I'll just add this before the gen_init_cpio call:
{{{
tee /tmp/lfs-initramfs-filelist
}}}
Does that work?
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