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-#!/bin/bash
-#
-# Copyright 2017 Andreas Florath <andreas@florath.net>
-#
-# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may
-# not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain
-# a copy of the License at
-#
-#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
-# WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
-# License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
-# under the License.
-#
-if [ "${DIB_DEBUG_TRACE:-0}" -gt 0 ]; then
-    set -x
-fi
-set -eu
-set -o pipefail
-
-# Many elements install additional distribution packages.
-# In addition the user can provide a set of packages to be installed
-# via the '-p' switch.
-# Some of them influence the boot process and therefore the initramfs
-# needs to be updated. Because the package manager during the image
-# creation process is configured not to run package scripts, this needs
-# to be done explicitly.
-update-initramfs -u
-
-# Please note that the 'dracut-regenerate' element does a similar job.
-# Nevertheless the update-initramfs / mkinitramfs are (currently) the
-# standard way for Debian / Ubuntu.
-# Also the 'dracut-regenerate' element can currently (Sep 2017) not
-# be used with Ubuntu, because of some problems, e.g. it clashes with
-# the ubuntu-minimal distribution package (not the DIB element with
-# the same name).