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Source: dracut
Severity: wishlist
Hi,
currently it is not possible to unpack a initramfs in Debian with only
initramfs-tools installed if one is using microcode updates via
initramfs:
$ file /boot/initrd.img-4.1.0-2-amd64
/boot/initrd.img-4.1.0-2-amd64: ASCII cpio archive (SVR4 with no CRC)
This is due to the fact that the microode is put into a cpio archive and
the initramfs itself is separate. Using
$ skipcpio ../a/initrd.img-4.1.0-2-amd64 > initramfs.img
initramfs.img: gzip compressed data, last modified: Fri Dec 4 10:19:28 2015,
from Unix
one can extract the "real" initramfs. It would be nice if one could have
this functionality available without installing full dracut on an
initramfs-toosl using system. By e.g. splitting it out into a
dracut-tools package.
Same is true for at least lsinitramfs.
Please consider splitting out the "generic" tools for us initramfs-tools users.
Cheers,
-- Guido
-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'unstable'),
(500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.1.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: dracut
Fixed: 044+3-2
This version splits out the core tools into the package
dracut-core. Now you can install initramfs-tools and dracut at the
same time.
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regards Thomas
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