PKGBUILDs/core/mkinitcpio/0001-use-gzip-for-compression-by-default.patch

From 24a642d73cd76fd82ffb6e6eb395a1766113f2e8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kevin Mihelich <kevin@archlinuxarm.org>
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2021 10:02:34 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] use gzip for compression by default

---
 man/mkinitcpio.conf.5.txt | 2 +-
 mkinitcpio                | 2 +-
 mkinitcpio.conf           | 2 +-
 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man/mkinitcpio.conf.5.txt b/man/mkinitcpio.conf.5.txt
index fdb8d91..d2ec118 100644
--- a/man/mkinitcpio.conf.5.txt
+++ b/man/mkinitcpio.conf.5.txt
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ Variables
 	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 --git a/mkinitcpio b/mkinitcpio
index f6787a7..8f6c2ec 100755
--- a/mkinitcpio
+++ b/mkinitcpio
@@ -725,7 +725,7 @@ if [[ $_optgenimg ]]; then
         die 'Unable to write to %s' "$_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 --git a/mkinitcpio.conf b/mkinitcpio.conf
index 710e05f..ac0de1c 100644
--- a/mkinitcpio.conf
+++ b/mkinitcpio.conf
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ FILES=()
 HOOKS=(base udev autodetect modconf kms keyboard keymap consolefont block filesystems fsck)
 
 # COMPRESSION
-# Use this to compress the initramfs image. By default, zstd compression
+# Use this to compress the initramfs image. By default, gazip compression
 # is used. Use 'cat' to create an uncompressed image.
 #COMPRESSION="zstd"
 #COMPRESSION="gzip"
-- 
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