Hi, Colin Watson wrote (23 May 2011 14:47:18 GMT) : > We compress the initramfs on the Ubuntu live CD with LZMA to save a > bit of space. Here's a patch to allow live-build to do this.
I do like the idea. We've been using initramfs-tools' COMPRESS=lzma in Tails for a few months, and I would greatly welcome having such support integrated in some way into Debian Live. Thank you, Colin, for working on this feature. > + # We probably ought to use COMPRESS= in a temporary file in > + # /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/ instead, but it's hard to > + # pass options that way. If this is your only reason to decompress / recompress the ramdisks (implicitly depending on those being compressed using gzip in the first place), wouldn't it be better to make initramfs-tools support a COMPRESS_OPTIONS option + indeed use its conf.d/ to set COMPRESS=, rather than adding the same options to live-build? I believe it would be more robust for Debian Live users, easier to maintain for Debian Live developers, and would as a bonus benefit to all other initramfs-tools users. Bye, -- intrigeri <[email protected]> | GnuPG key @ https://gaffer.ptitcanardnoir.org/intrigeri/intrigeri.asc | OTR fingerprint @ https://gaffer.ptitcanardnoir.org/intrigeri/otr.asc | The impossible just takes a bit longer. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
