Bug 453034

Summary:	media-gfx/splashutils - splash_geninitramfs only supports gzip
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Vince C. <vincent.cadet>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	No maintainer - Look at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers if you want to take care of it <maintainer-needed>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	2005.1
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	Patch to splash_geninitramfs: adds a configurable compression method

Description Vince C. 2013-01-19 20:28:08 UTC

Genkernel supports many compress methods (e.g. xz, bzip2, lzop...) while splash_geninitramfs only supports gzip (hardcoded). This patch makes compression type an argument to splash_geninitramfs.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Use genkernel to create a ramdisk (defaults to using xz)
2. Use splash_geninitramfs to add a theme, for instance
Actual Results:  
The initramfs is truncated, eventually making the system unbootable.

Expected Results:  
No error, proper ramdisk file.

I use genkernel and splash_geninitramfs in a custom script to embed two themes in my ramdisk file. Only lately did I notice genkernel 3.4.x uses xz by default, making splash_geninitramfs unable to edit ramdisk files. My machine didn't boot right after that. So I decided to hack splash_geninitramfs and make compression method configurable.

Comment 1 Vince C. 2013-01-19 20:29:34 UTC

Created attachment 336162 [details, diff]
Patch to splash_geninitramfs: adds a configurable compression method

Comment 2 AlexOmskiy 2013-01-30 12:01:21 UTC

And?
This problem was here (#417375).
Find global difff's?.

Comment 3 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2013-02-03 09:29:10 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 417375 ***