Re: [PATCH] Don't use absolute path for ip, does not always work

[Seewer Philippe <philippe.seewer-omB+W0Dpw2o@public.gmane.org>]

Victor Lowther wrote:
> On Jun 5, 2009, at 12:27 PM, Bill Nottingham <notting-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 
>> Victor Lowther (victor.lowther-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org) said:
>>>> Why does it not always work, unless you're breaking your initramfs?
>>>
>>> What if your distro does not put ip in /sbin?
>>
>> I was under the impression that the generation already put it in
>> a known place, in which case there's no reason to worry about it
>> being elsewhere. I checked again, and that's not the case.
> 
> I should hope so, otherwise writing the install code to be as distro 
> agnostic as feasible was all for naught. :)

I guess I should have formulated my post better.

ip get's copied in, no worries. dracut_install ip works perfectly. Since 
it looks everywhere sensible for the utility if no path is provided.

Problem is that debian puts ip in /bin not /sbin. So the code almost 
always works, except for debian.

Regards,
Philippe
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