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initramfs-tools package

  1. Bug #68628
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Comment 1 for bug 68628

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Hilario J. Montoliu (hjmf) (hmontoliu) wrote : Re: typo in preinst script breaks initial installation

as Robert Sander wrote in bug #74242:

Binary package hint: initramfs-tools

The preinst script of initramfs-tools has the (old) bug from Debian: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=393773, a missing backslash in the sed expression.

This causes sed to fail with "sed: no input file" and install of initramfs-tools stops.

This bug is only triggered when installing initramfs-tools for the first time and with an existing /etc/mkinitrd/modules file. I encountered this situation when upgrading from Debian sarge to Edgy yesterday.

After removing the old initrd-tools package installing initramfs-tools was possible.