Bug 1260788

Summary:	Dracut --include not creating file (or creating empty directory)
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	keith
Component:	dracut	Assignee:	dracut-maint-list
Status:	CLOSED EOL	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	22	CC:	dracut-maint-list, harald, jonathan, Mikhail_Campos-Guadamuz, zbyszek
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Last Closed:	2016-07-19 17:48:21 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Description keith 2015-09-07 18:48:35 UTC

Description of problem: I am trying to add a file to my initramfs but it is not gettting created.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

041-14.fc22

How reproducible:

I created a test file called test to include in the / directory of the initramfs but it does not get added.

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Create a test file called test with test in the body
2.  Ran "dracut --force --include test /"
3.  No file is created.

Actual results:

lsinitrd|grep test
Arguments: --force --include 'test' '/'

Expected results:

lsinitrd|grep test
Arguments: --force --include 'test' '/'
/test

Additional info:

I tried to define the destination completely (including the filename) and it only create an empty test directory with no file in it.

Here is the command I ran for that:

dracut --force --include test /test

Comment 1 Harald Hoyer 2015-09-08 08:36:30 UTC

# echo test > test
# ls -l test
-rwxrwxr-x 1 harald harald 5  8. Sep 10:34 test

# dracut -f --include $(pwd)/test /test test.img
# lsinitrd test.img /test
test

# lsinitrd test.img |fgrep test
Image: test.img: 12M
Arguments: -f --include '/home/harald/test' '/test'
-rwxrwxr-x   1 root     root            5 Sep  8 10:34 test


Works for me with the full path.

Comment 2 Mikhail Campos 2016-06-28 14:59:07 UTC

I can confirm the bug against fc23. It seems to work under the normal, user but only when full path is used.

Moreover, it's broken when running under the root (even with full path): 

1. su -
2. ls -la mycfg.conf 
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 27 Jun 28 16:47 mycfg.conf
3. dracut --include $(pwd)/mycfg.cfg /etc/myconf.conf -f myinitrd.img
4. lsinitrd myinitrd.img | grep myconf
Arguments: -f --include '/tmp/mycfg.cfg' '/etc/myconf.conf'
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root            0 Jun 28 17:33 etc/myconf.conf

It creates file of zero size, but the target one was not empty.

Moreover, we have misleading information about --include option using man:

"...--include can only be specified once."

and later in the man:

"--include <SOURCE> <TARGET>
           ... This parameter can be specified multiple times."

Moreover, consequent invocation of dracut --include deletes previous added information (not sure whether it's supposed to be or not).

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
043-60.git20150811.fc23

Comment 3 Fedora End Of Life 2016-07-19 17:48:21 UTC

Fedora 22 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2016-07-19. Fedora 22 is
no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further
security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug.

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