On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 06:49:52PM +0100, Maxime Bizon wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
>
>
> When gen_initramfs_list is used to generate make dependencies, it
> includes symbolic links, for which make tracks the link target. Any
> change to that target will cause an initramfs rebuild, even if the
> symlink points to something outside of the initramfs directory.
>
> If the target happens to be /tmp, the rebuild occurs for each kernel
> build, since gen_initramfs_list uses mktemp...
>
> Proposed way to fix it is to omit symbolic links from generated
> dependencies, but this has a small drawback: changing perm/owner on a
> symlink will go unnoticed.
>
>
> Signed-off-by: Maxime Bizon <mbizon@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> --- linux-2.6.28.4/scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh.old 2009-02-09 18:22:26.000000000 +0100
> +++ linux-2.6.28.4/scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh 2009-02-09 18:21:54.000000000 +0100
> @@ -97,7 +97,7 @@
> }
>
> list_parse() {
> - echo "$1 \\"
> + [ ! -L "$1" ] && echo "$1 \\" || :
> }
>
> # for each file print a line in following format
Applied.
Sam
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