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  1. Bug #1248053
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Comment 16 for bug 1248053

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Andy Whitcroft (apw) wrote : Re: initrd.img symlink is absolute

@Daniel -- that 'V' view bug should be reported against apport, that is rather, sad.

I think you are saying that if the file already exists then the linking code will emit a non-absolute link, if it is missing then an absolute one. I think this is born out by my system which clearly has a reinstalled kernel at the same version on it:

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 Nov 4 18:45 initrd.img -> boot/initrd.img-3.8.0-32-generic
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Nov 4 18:45 initrd.img.old -> /boot/initrd.img-3.8.0-32-generic

The first one (.old) would have not had an initrd in place when linking the other would.