Package: initramfs-tools
Version: 0.85g (and as I can see also 0.89)
Severity: normal
When running mkinitramfs or mkinitramfs-kpkg they both fail if the current
running kernel isn't compiled with modules support and therefore the directory
for modules doesn't exist. The problem lies in the fact that the program wants
to have /lib/modules/${version}/ directory present (even if it's empty), what
is not the case in kernels without modules.
A dirty (but perfectly working) workaround is to run mkdir before trying to use
mkinitramfs (or installing a custom made kernel package made with make-kpkg
with --initrd switch).
A patch would be to just remove lines from 147 to 150 in "mkinitramfs"
that say:
if [ ! -e "${MODULESDIR}" ]; then
echo "Cannot find ${MODULESDIR}"
exit 1
fi
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-usura
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
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