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| author | bert schulze <spambemyguest@googlemail.com> | 2010-02-28 20:15:47 +0100 |
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| committer | maximilian attems <maks@debian.org> | 2010-04-04 05:50:34 +0200 |
| commit | 38c90c536d96982ada4017d00da3878f87e7300e (patch) | |
| tree | 64ba158fd3827229f8dc4ce24a033395d6e7f1c2 /initramfs.conf.5 | |
| parent | 9d6567169ea95ffad8a3c9a95218851821d147b8 (diff) | |
| download | initramfs-tools-38c90c536d96982ada4017d00da3878f87e7300e.tar.gz initramfs-tools-38c90c536d96982ada4017d00da3878f87e7300e.zip | |
initramfs-tools: support different compression tools in mkinitramfs
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.
(closes: #533903)
[ minor changes in mkinitramfs code ]
Signed-off-by: maximilian attems <maks@debian.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'initramfs.conf.5')
| -rw-r--r-- | initramfs.conf.5 | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/initramfs.conf.5 b/initramfs.conf.5 index 984d1a2..4d8ef89 100644 --- a/initramfs.conf.5 +++ b/initramfs.conf.5 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.TH INITRAMFS.CONF 5 "2010/03/25" "Linux" "initramfs.conf manual" +.TH INITRAMFS.CONF 5 "2010/04/04" "Linux" "initramfs.conf manual" .SH NAME initramfs.conf \- configuration file for mkinitramfs @@ -48,6 +48,13 @@ The keymap will anyway be loaded by the initscripts later, and the packages that might need input will normally set this variable automatically, so there should normally be no need to set this. +.TP +\fB COMPRESS +Specifies the compression method used for the initramfs image. +.B mkinitramfs +will default to gzip if the kernel lacks support (CONFIG_RD) or the +corresponding userspace utility is not present. + .TP \fB UMASK Set the umask value of the generated initramfs file. |