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

2010-02-02 Thread Bert Schulze
quot;lzma" or "bzip2" has been passed as argument, or defaults to gzip. (as well if the -c argument has been omitted) Given the fact that gzip, bzip2 and lzma read input from stdin and pass the compressed output to stdout theres no need to change a lot of code here. unified diff att

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

2010-02-25 Thread bert schulze
mkinitramfs? > > also just fall back on current default if the input is undefined or > strange of tha config option. > [..] 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

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#576429: initramfs-tools: mkinitramfs - compression support / commandline override

2010-04-04 Thread Bert Schulze
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.93.4 Severity: normal Tags: patch hello maximilian, fixed the commandline argument to select the compressor. also your test with "command" needed to be negated otherwise the fallback to gzip would take place everytime. patch attached -- frohe o