From 3ceb9e3e9624a8c7915f086eeb17813453a25acc 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 69bbc6a..ad60b6b 100644 --- a/man/mkinitcpio.conf.5.adoc +++ b/man/mkinitcpio.conf.5.adoc @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ override the main configuration file. Defines a program to filter the generated image through. The kernel understands the compression formats yielded by the *zstd*(1), *gzip*(1), *bzip2*(1), *lz4*(1), *lzop*(1), *lzma*(1), and *xz*(1) compressors. If - unspecified, this setting defaults to _zstd_ compression. In order to create + unspecified, this setting defaults to _gzip_ compression. In order to create an uncompressed image, define this variable as _cat_. + It is not hard to realize that a filter such as a _tac_ or _rev_ will cause diff --git a/mkinitcpio b/mkinitcpio index b758f85..98a80e0 100755 --- a/mkinitcpio +++ b/mkinitcpio @@ -952,7 +952,7 @@ 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