[Bug 1642704] Re: initramfs-tools on Trusty doesn't handle symlinks in newer linux-firmware packages correctly

[Justin King-Lacroix]

Bug is on line 118: "cp -a" should read "cp -aL"

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Title:
  initramfs-tools on Trusty doesn't handle symlinks in newer linux-
  firmware packages correctly

Status in initramfs-tools package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  $ update-initramfs -k 4.4.0-47-generic -c
  update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.4.0-47-generic
  $ sudo cat /boot/initrd.img-4.4.0-47-generic |unxz |cpio -i --no-absolute-filenames 
  185780 blocks
  $ ls lib/firmware/i915/
  $ ls /lib/firmware/i915/
  bxt_dmc_ver1_04.bin  bxt_dmc_ver1.bin@    skl_dmc_ver1.bin@      skl_guc_ver4_3.bin
  bxt_dmc_ver1_05.bin  skl_dmc_ver1_23.bin  skl_guc_ver1_1059.bin  skl_guc_ver4.bin@
  bxt_dmc_ver1_06.bin  skl_dmc_ver1_26.bin  skl_guc_ver1.bin@
  $

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