Bug#950086: base-installer: please support configuring initramfs compression

2020-01-30 Thread Alper Nebi Yasak
On 30/01/2020 16:43, Ben Hutchings wrote: Oh, right, then I misunderstood what you were doing. I don't understand how the two templates work together, so it may well be that the first version was OK. I don't really grok debconf, but from what I can tell: 1. at build-time, x may be set

Bug#950086: base-installer: please support configuring initramfs compression

2020-01-30 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2020-01-30 at 20:10 +0300, Alper Nebi Yasak wrote: > On 30/01/2020 16:43, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > Oh, right, then I misunderstood what you were doing. I don't > > understand how the two templates work together, so it may well be that > > the first version was OK. > I don't really grok

Bug#950086: base-installer: please support configuring initramfs compression

2020-01-30 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2020-01-30 at 16:35 +0300, Alper Nebi Yasak wrote: > On 29/01/2020 21:31, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > This is definitely a rather niche option, so "wishlist" is appropriate. > > Thanks! (My reasoning was that it's a new feature.) > > > So it's possible to set any arbitrary string, but if

Bug#950086: base-installer: please support configuring initramfs compression

2020-01-30 Thread Alper Nebi Yasak
On 29/01/2020 21:31, Ben Hutchings wrote: This is definitely a rather niche option, so "wishlist" is appropriate. Thanks! (My reasoning was that it's a new feature.) So it's possible to set any arbitrary string, but if you set it to anything other than "gzip", "xz", or "lzma" then the

Bug#950086: base-installer: please support configuring initramfs compression

2020-01-29 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2020-01-29 at 00:01 +0300, Alper Nebi Yasak wrote: > Source: base-installer > Version: 1.192 > Severity: wishlist > Tags: patch This is definitely a rather niche option, so "wishlist" is appropriate. > Dear Maintainers, > > Debian-installer can already configure initramfs-tools' MODULES

Bug#950086: base-installer: please support configuring initramfs compression

2020-01-28 Thread Alper Nebi Yasak
Source: base-installer Version: 1.192 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Dear Maintainers, Debian-installer can already configure initramfs-tools' MODULES setting to get a smaller initramfs. I've written a patch for configuring its COMPRESS setting as well, please consider applying it. I've