From 19178cb8b2874f83fbd8b3659a2d1d532af881a3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kevin Mihelich Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2021 10:02:34 -0700 Subject: [PATCH 1/3] use gzip for compression by default --- man/mkinitcpio.conf.5.adoc | 2 +- mkinitcpio | 2 +- mkinitcpio.conf | 2 +- 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/man/mkinitcpio.conf.5.adoc b/man/mkinitcpio.conf.5.adoc index 08b95c5..41c29be 100644 --- a/man/mkinitcpio.conf.5.adoc +++ b/man/mkinitcpio.conf.5.adoc @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ 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 0c6dc60..f68d70c 100755 --- a/mkinitcpio +++ b/mkinitcpio @@ -856,7 +856,7 @@ if [[ -n "$_optgenimg" ]]; then die "Unable to write to '%s'" "$_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..4a2ce87 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, gzip compression # is used. Use 'cat' to create an uncompressed image. #COMPRESSION="zstd" #COMPRESSION="gzip" -- 2.36.1