Description of problem: /sbin/kpartx.static is a symlink to its dynamic counterpart instead of an actual statical version of the executable. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kpartx-0.4.7-15.fc9.i386 Additional info: To be honest, I'm not sure if this is actually a bug or not. It just seems wrong that the *.static link points to dynamic version. I discovered this while researching bug 452423. Opening against device-mapper since there isn't a kpartx component in bugzilla.
Nope. This isn't very pretty, but it's not a bug. It's a holdover from before we could execute dynamically linked binaries in early bootup. It's no longer necessary to have a statically linked binary, and in fact, libdevmapper no longer exists in as a statically linkable library. However, mkinitrd still references the static versions of these commands, so they need to exist until all the references go away.