On 31.08.2011 00:18, John Reiser wrote:
Building an initramfs does not preserve symlinks for .hmac files.
For instance on Fedora 16 the symlink
/lib64/.libcrypto.so.10.hmac -> .libcrypto.so.1.0.0d.hmac
becomes a separate regular file:
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$ lsinitrd test.img | grep hmac
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 65 Jul 26 04:10 usr/lib64/.libssl.so.1.0.0d.hmac
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 65 Jul 26 04:10 usr/lib64/.libssl.so.10.hmac
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 65 Jul 26 04:10 lib64/.libcrypto.so.10.hmac
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 65 Aug 14 22:09 lib64/.libgcrypt.so.11.hmac
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 65 Jul 26 04:10 lib64/.libcrypto.so.1.0.0d.hmac
$ ls -l /lib64/.*.hmac
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 65 Jul 26 04:10 /lib64/.libcrypto.so.1.0.0d.hmac
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 25 Aug 25 10:31 /lib64/.libcrypto.so.10.hmac -> .libcrypto.so.1.0.0d.hmac
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 65 Aug 14 22:09 /lib64/.libgcrypt.so.11.hmac
$
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fixed with the attached patch. Thanks!
diff --git a/dracut-functions b/dracut-functions
index c28766e..3edd4c7 100755
--- a/dracut-functions
+++ b/dracut-functions
@@ -320,7 +320,7 @@ inst_simple() {
fi
# install checksum files also
if [[ -e "${_src%/*}/.${_src##*/}.hmac" ]]; then
- inst_simple "${_src%/*}/.${_src##*/}.hmac" "${target%/*}/.${target##*/}.hmac"
+ inst "${_src%/*}/.${_src##*/}.hmac" "${target%/*}/.${target##*/}.hmac"
fi
ddebug "Installing $_src"
cp -pfL "$_src" "${initdir}$target"
@@ -360,7 +360,7 @@ inst_library() {
if [[ -L $_src ]]; then
# install checksum files also
if [[ -e "${_src%/*}/.${_src##*/}.hmac" ]]; then
- inst_simple "${_src%/*}/.${_src##*/}.hmac" "${_dest%/*}/.${_dest##*/}.hmac"
+ inst "${_src%/*}/.${_src##*/}.hmac" "${_dest%/*}/.${_dest##*/}.hmac"
fi
_reallib=$(readlink -f "$_src")
inst_simple "$_reallib" "$_reallib"
