Problems with `initramfs` not being generated about pi-gen HOT 4 CLOSED

Yeah, it's all a bit new for me as well and it can be quite a rabbit trail to find out what happens where exactly. Great work figuring it out.

Closing, since I am 90% certain that that is the fix.

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Is this not the same issue as this? In which case it should've been fixed by this commit.

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Yeah, looks like it. I never came across that issue, that's probably because the realization that this is related to initramfs came kind of late. I did review the commits on the master branch to see if there would be anything potentially related, but didn't spot the commit for the same reason... I probably should have tried building from the master, but didn't - that's mostly because I'm trying to stick to the equivalent of the latest Pi OS release, or at least as close as possible.

I did even attempt similar fixes as the one in the commit, but couldn't get them to work. I don't normally deal with this stuff...

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Yeah, can confirm: cherry-picking that commit also solves the problem. I'll use that for our builds, mostly for the sake of not diverging. Thank you for the fix, and also for filling in the missing blank about what exactly changed.

I guess the only potential takeaway here is that forcing the package sequence would also work, should the problem pop up again.

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