Bug#533903: initramfs-tools: support different compression tools in mkinitramfs

2010-04-03 Thread maximilian attems
On Sun, 28 Feb 2010, bert schulze wrote: Hello Maximilian, this version uses /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf to determine the compression method, checks kernel and userspace support with fallback to gzip. Since LZO didnt work for me at all with 2.6.33 I left that out for now.

Bug#533903: initramfs-tools: support different compression tools in mkinitramfs

2010-02-28 Thread bert schulze
Hello Maximilian, this version uses /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf to determine the compression method, checks kernel and userspace support with fallback to gzip. Since LZO didnt work for me at all with 2.6.33 I left that out for now. unified diff against git attached regards Bert Schulze

Bug#533903: initramfs-tools: support different compression tools in mkinitramfs

2010-02-25 Thread bert schulze
Hello Maximilian, maximilian attems (Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 12:00:14AM +0100): [..] hmm there i'm not sure that it is update-initramfs job. I'd prefer to have it in /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf and have mkinitramfs deal directly with it. then you also don't have to take care about

Bug#533903: initramfs-tools: support different compression tools in mkinitramfs

2010-02-25 Thread maximilian attems
hello Bert, On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 05:29:42PM +0100, bert schulze wrote: yeah thats no problem at all, I just grabbed the 2.6.33 sources and theres LZO support as well. Will rediff it ths weekend and let mkinitramfs do the job instead. cool, beware that initramfs-tools saw a bit of

Bug#533903: initramfs-tools: support different compression tools in mkinitramfs

2010-02-22 Thread maximilian attems
hello, sorry for the late reaction and thanks a lot for your report. On Wed, 03 Feb 2010, Bert Schulze wrote: Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.93.4 Severity: normal Tags: patch Dear initramfs-tools Maintainers, since I've recently did some experiments regarding lzma compressed

Bug#533903: initramfs-tools: support different compression tools in mkinitramfs

2010-02-02 Thread Bert Schulze
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.93.4 Severity: normal Tags: patch Dear initramfs-tools Maintainers, since I've recently did some experiments regarding lzma compressed initramfs images I stumbled upon this quite old bugreport. As mentioned before the stock kernel has support for lzma/bzip2

Bug#533903: initramfs-tools: support different compression tools in mkinitramfs

2009-06-22 Thread maximilian attems
On Sun, 21 Jun 2009, Michael Prokop wrote: Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.93.3 Severity: wishlist Current kernel versions support different decompression options for kernel and initrd: CONFIG_DECOMPRESS_GZIP CONFIG_DECOMPRESS_BZIP2 CONFIG_DECOMPRESS_LZMA i haven't played

Bug#533903: initramfs-tools: support different compression tools in mkinitramfs

2009-06-22 Thread Michael Prokop
* maximilian attems m...@stro.at [20090623 00:25]: On Sun, 21 Jun 2009, Michael Prokop wrote: Current kernel versions support different decompression options for kernel and initrd: CONFIG_DECOMPRESS_GZIP CONFIG_DECOMPRESS_BZIP2 CONFIG_DECOMPRESS_LZMA i haven't played with

Bug#533903: initramfs-tools: support different compression tools in mkinitramfs

2009-06-21 Thread Michael Prokop
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.93.3 Severity: wishlist Current kernel versions support different decompression options for kernel and initrd: CONFIG_DECOMPRESS_GZIP CONFIG_DECOMPRESS_BZIP2 CONFIG_DECOMPRESS_LZMA initramfs-tools currently supports gzip only. I'd like to see support