This is a huge bug. I hit it when trying to kickstart Intrepid Ibex yesterday, and I tracked it down exactly to that missing CONFIG_GETOPT_LONG. When will the initrd...
...be regenerated to include the new version of busybox ? For those waiting for it to be regenerated, here is a workaround that consists of patching a broken initrd, to make kickstart's "url --url http://xxx" option work again (and only this option, others will remain broken):
$ mkdir i && cd i
$ zcat ../initrd.gz | cpio --make-dir -i
$ patch -Np1 <../fix-kickseed-url-handler.patch
$ find . | cpio -o -H newc | gzip -9 >../initrd.gz
This is a huge bug. I hit it when trying to kickstart Intrepid Ibex yesterday, and I tracked it down exactly to that missing CONFIG_GETOPT_LONG. When will the initrd...
http:// archive. ubuntu. com/ubuntu/ dists/intrepid/ main/installer- $ARCH/current/ images/ netboot/ ubuntu- installer/ $ARCH/initrd. gz
...be regenerated to include the new version of busybox ? For those waiting for it to be regenerated, here is a workaround that consists of patching a broken initrd, to make kickstart's "url --url http:// xxx" option work again (and only this option, others will remain broken):
$ mkdir i && cd i kickseed- url-handler. patch
$ zcat ../initrd.gz | cpio --make-dir -i
$ patch -Np1 <../fix-
$ find . | cpio -o -H newc | gzip -9 >../initrd.gz
-marc