Improved initramfs output format to support .ln overlay files as symlinks, including the referenced location as content

target/share/initramfs.in

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # This copyright note is auto-generated by ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch.
 # 
 # Filename: target/share/initramfs.in
-# Copyright (C) 2007 The OpenSDE Project
+# Copyright (C) 2007 - 2008 The OpenSDE Project
 # 
 # More information can be found in the files COPYING and README.
 # 
@@ -35,14 +35,14 @@ initramfs_install_flist() {
 initramfs_install_overlay() {
 	local overlaydir="$1" rootfs="$2"
 	local file= source= target= ext=
-	local type= mode=
+	local type= mode= ref=
 
 	for file in $overlaydir/*; do
 		source="${file##*/}"
 		ext="${file##*.}"
 
 		case "$ext" in
-			sh|exec|txt|patch)
+			sh|exec|txt|patch|ln)
 				case "$ext" in
 					sh|exec)	type='exec'; mode=0755	;;
 					*)		type="$ext"; mode=0644	;;
@@ -58,6 +58,10 @@ initramfs_install_overlay() {
 				cp -f "$file" "$rootfs/$target"
 				chmod $mode "$rootfs/$target"
 				;;
+			ln)	ref=$( cat "$file" )
+				echo_status "injecting $target -> $ref"
+				ln -snf "$ref" "$rootfs/$target"
+				;;
 			patch)
 				echo_status "$(patch -p1 -d "${rootfs}" 2>&1 < $file )"
 				;;