On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 11:28:16PM -0700, Tony Alfrey wrote:
...
>It blew up. I built the drivers into the kernel instead. That works.
>I'll need to study the mkinitrd script simply to know how it works.
>Thanks!!
The mkinitrd script in the Caldera modutils RPM has been broken since the
2.2 betas. It fails if any of the directories in /etc/modules contain
whitespace (many do). I submitted patches to fix this at least two years
ago, but they've never been applied.
This can be fixed easily by editing /usr/libexec/modules/mkinitrd.sh adding
double quotes around each instance of $latest:
latest=`ls -art /etc/modules/*/*rootfs 2>/dev/null | tail -1`
if [ -n "$latest" -a -s /"$latest" ]; then
...
Bill
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