Re: [PATCH 3/5] don't copy busybox to sh, use link instead

2011-04-08 Thread maximilian attems 
On Sat, 19 Mar 2011, Michael Tokarev wrote:

 mkinitramfs uses cpio --dereference, so it copies each symlink
 as its target not as symlink.  In order to compensate for that,
 use hard link instead.
 

this is no longer true (see current master).

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Re: [PATCH 3/5] don't copy busybox to sh, use link instead

2011-03-19 Thread Ben Hutchings 
On Sat, 2011-03-19 at 14:02 +0300, Michael Tokarev wrote:
 mkinitramfs uses cpio --dereference, so it copies each symlink
 as its target not as symlink.  In order to compensate for that,
 use hard link instead.
[...]
 + ln -s busybox ${DESTDIR}/bin/sh
[...]

Really?

Ben.

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Re: [PATCH 3/5] don't copy busybox to sh, use link instead

2011-03-19 Thread Michael Tokarev 
19.03.2011 17:00, Ben Hutchings wrote:
 On Sat, 2011-03-19 at 14:02 +0300, Michael Tokarev wrote:
 mkinitramfs uses cpio --dereference, so it copies each symlink
 as its target not as symlink.  In order to compensate for that,
 use hard link instead.
 [...]
 +ln -s busybox ${DESTDIR}/bin/sh
 [...]
 
 Really?

There are 2 patches numbered 3/5 - one of them leaked
from before I rebased the changes on top of Max's branch
(it was in my temp dir from git format-patch).  This one
should be ignored, and it's not present in the git tree
either.

Thanks,

/mjt


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