From f0eddfb45bbe75257c679020838709e0c8e51a0c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kevin Mihelich 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 0383360..46538d2 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 2781e3a..1d48cc6 100755 --- a/mkinitcpio +++ b/mkinitcpio @@ -689,7 +689,7 @@ 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 3494fab..3c902f6 100644 --- a/mkinitcpio.conf +++ b/mkinitcpio.conf @@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ FILES=() 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, gazip compression # is used. Use 'cat' to create an uncompressed image. #COMPRESSION="zstd" #COMPRESSION="gzip" -- 2.36.1