mkinitcpio, mkinitramfs, initrd rebuild

2021-09-13 23:49:52 +03:00
parent f2d0201c0d
commit b2f35a7320
27 changed files with 1159 additions and 44 deletions
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+Because not all Void kernels may support zstd, change the default initramfs
+compression to gzip.
+
+diff -ur a/man/mkinitcpio.conf.5.txt b/man/mkinitcpio.conf.5.txt
+--- a/man/mkinitcpio.conf.5.txt	2021-02-16 21:37:31.000000000 -0500
+++ b/man/mkinitcpio.conf.5.txt	2021-05-17 09:33:32.418504652 -0400
+@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@
+ 	Defines a program to filter the generated image through. The kernel
+ 	understands the compression formats yielded by the *zstd*, *gzip*, *bzip2*,
+ 	*lz4*, *lzop*, *lzma*, and *xz* compressors. If unspecified, this setting
+-	defaults to *zstd* compression. In order to create an uncompressed image,
+	defaults to *gzip* compression. In order to create an uncompressed image,
+ 	define this variable as *cat*.
+ +
+ It's not hard to realize that a filter such as a *tac* or *rev* will cause
+diff -ur a/mkinitcpio b/mkinitcpio
+--- a/mkinitcpio	2021-02-16 21:37:31.000000000 -0500
+++ b/mkinitcpio	2021-05-17 09:34:15.970588222 -0400
+@@ -508,7 +508,7 @@
+         die 'Unable to write to %s' "$_optgenimg"
+     fi
+ 
+-    _optcompress=${_optcompress:-${COMPRESSION:-zstd}}
+    _optcompress=${_optcompress:-${COMPRESSION:-gzip}}
+     if ! type -P "$_optcompress" >/dev/null; then
+         warning "Unable to locate compression method: %s" "$_optcompress"
+         _optcompress=cat
+diff -ur a/mkinitcpio.conf b/mkinitcpio.conf
+--- a/mkinitcpio.conf	2021-02-16 21:37:31.000000000 -0500
+++ b/mkinitcpio.conf	2021-05-17 09:34:24.752605714 -0400
+@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@
+ HOOKS=(base udev autodetect modconf block filesystems keyboard fsck)
+ 
+ # COMPRESSION
+-# Use this to compress the initramfs image. By default, zstd compression
+# Use this to compress the initramfs image. By default, gzip compression
+ # is used. Use 'cat' to create an uncompressed image.
+ #COMPRESSION="zstd"
+ #COMPRESSION="gzip"
+