> just a minor thing but I think you should anchor your grep to the end of > the filename: > grep -v "old-dkms$"
OK, please find attached an updated patch. I didn't use the quotes around the expression because with quotes I got a build error about bashisms. Cheers Ronny
diff --git a/bin/live-update-initramfs b/bin/live-update-initramfs index 3cdbed3..eeb4840 100755 --- a/bin/live-update-initramfs +++ b/bin/live-update-initramfs @@ -55,12 +55,11 @@ case "${_READ_WRITE}" in # Updating initramfs /usr/sbin/update-initramfs.orig.initramfs-tools "${@}" - # FIXME: needs to exclude initrd backup files - if [ "$(ls /boot/initrd.img-* | wc -l)" -gt 1 ] + if [ "$(ls /boot/initrd.img-* | grep -v old-dkms$ | wc -l)" -gt 1 ] then _NUMBER="1" - for _INITRD in /boot/initrd.img-* + for _INITRD in $(ls /boot/initrd.img-* | grep -v old-dkms$) do _VERSION="$(basename ${_INITRD} | sed -e 's|initrd.img-||')"