On Sun, 2026-05-03 at 15:40 +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sat, 2 May 2026 15:15:32 +1000 undef <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Thanks for the heads up. > > > > It seems like this won't be as simple as adding a dependency on cpio. > > Newer versions of initramfs-tools can also compress only part of the > > CPIO archive, making all of the existing decompression logic in > > miniramfs fail (it produces only a /usr directory). > > But that happened before the trixie release, so miniramfs also needs to > be fixed in stable somehow. > > > The only workaround > > I've found for that is using the "unmkinitramfs" tool provided by > > initramfs-tools-bin directly. This works, but only when used with 3cpio, > > because it will try and fail to use busybox cpio otherwise. > > I could also make unmkinitramfs work with Busybox cpio. [...]
I created <https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/initramfs-tools/-/merge_requests/195> to do this. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular. - Adlai Stevenson
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