Erich Titl wrote:
Hi Charles
another little problem showed up using the bash package, apparently bash is included in initdr.lrp (or at least in initrd.list) this prevents bash being backed up using lrcfg.
Problem summary: - initrd.lrp includes /bin/bash (symlink to ash)
- installing 'real' bash.lrp means multiple packages list /bin/bash in their package.list files, so bash never gets backed up.
There's not a perfect solution to this problem, as it is impossible in the current packaging system to include the same file in more than one package.
Options for work-arounds include:
1) Remove /bin/bash from initrd.lrp, creating the symlink 'on the fly' as part of the init scripts. This moves the problem to root.lrp (which will try to backup the /bin/bash symlink...if /bin/bash is added to root.exclude.list, we're back to where we started, and bash will never get backed up).
2) Move the 'real' bash to someplace like /usr/bin/bash. This keeps files from steping on each other when backing up, but /bin/bash will still be a symlink to /bin/ash, unless modified (at which point you can no longer make a 'clean' backup of initrd.lrp).
3) Use indirection, similar to the debian 'alternatives', ie:
/bin/bash -> /etc/alternatives/bash
..and one of ..
/etc/alternatives/bash -> /bin/ash
..or..
/etc/alternatives/bash -> /usr/bin/bash
With this method, you can make a 'clean' backup of both initrd.lrp *AND* bash.lrp, with the change required to select whether to use ash or bash as /bin/bash saved in a third package (either etc or a seperate alternates pacakge).
...or you can just ignore the whole mess, and don't backup initrd or bash (or manually remove /bin/bash from one package list file if you need to backup the other). Realistically, it shouldn't generally be required to backup the bash package (for anyone other than the maintainer), and it's only rarely necessary to backup initrd.lrp, so this is the option
-- Charles Steinkuehler [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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