From 9588c32006983fda80f393458e36fe3d7e590598 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 13:00:28 +0100
Subject: mkinitramfs: Filter out looping or broken symlinks from the initramfs

they cause cpio to explode (LP: #540686).

[ merge from 0.92bubuntu70 ]
(closes: #575157)

Signed-off-by: maximilian attems <maks@debian.org>
---
 mkinitramfs | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mkinitramfs b/mkinitramfs
index e2f5ebe..877dfb4 100755
--- a/mkinitramfs
+++ b/mkinitramfs
@@ -256,6 +256,10 @@ if [ -e "${CONFDIR}/DSDT.aml" ]; then
 	copy_exec "${CONFDIR}/DSDT.aml" /
 fi
 
+# Remove any looping or broken symbolic links, since they break cpio.
+find "${DESTDIR}" -type l -printf '%p %Y\n' | sed -n 's/ [LN]$//p' \
+	| xargs -rL1 rm -f
+
 [ "${verbose}" = y ] && echo "Building cpio ${outfile} initramfs"
 (
 # work around lack of "set -o pipefail" for the following pipe:
-- 
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