Control: reassign -1 initramfs-tools Control: found -1 0.142
Pascal Hambourg <pas...@plouf.fr.eu.org> wrote (Mon, 22 Jul 2024 08:47:44 +0200): > On 22/07/2024 at 04:39, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > Jonathan Kamens <j...@kamens.us> (2024-07-21): > >> Something changed recently in testing which caused the size of my > >> initrd to go up A Lot, e.g., on one computer from 70MB to 248MB. > (...) > > Have you tried comparing before/after to see where this increase comes > > from? Checking the compression settings would also make sense. > > The significant initramfs size increase is caused by the combination of > the new package firmware-nvidia-graphics, which provides firmware for > Nvidia GPUs (injected by plymouth) and contains directory symlinks, and > initramsf-tools < 0.143 which converts directory symlinks into real > directories and duplicate their contents. It seems that initramfs-tools > 0.143, currently in experimental, fixes the issue. > > Other related bug reports: > <https://bugs.debian.org/1076582> > <https://bugs.debian.org/1076539> > <https://bugs.debian.org/972396> > -- Holger Wansing <hwans...@mailbox.org> PGP-Fingerprint: 496A C6E8 1442 4B34 8508 3529 59F1 87CA 156E B076
