From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>
To: development@lists.ipfire.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Core Update 169: Regenerate initrds and save space on ARM
Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2022 15:19:20 +0200
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Hello,

Indeed we don=E2=80=99t need to ship them, we can generate them instead.

But that has of course some downsides, too:

* It is slow
* It is not entirely error-proof (out of disk space, out of memory, system be=
ing rebooted too early)

I do not really have much of a preference. The only thing I want to say is th=
at ARM needs to get their shit together and being able to load a regular imag=
e instead of asking for extra commands here - or build that into dracut.

-Michael

> On 7 Jul 2022, at 07:48, Peter M=C3=BCller <peter.mueller(a)ipfire.org> wro=
te:
>=20
> Hello *,
>=20
> to my understanding, we do not need to ship "linux-initrd" if we can easily
> rebuild those on the systems anyway. I would prefer the latter, since that
> keeps the update smaller.
>=20
> This was also raised somewhere in the community a while ago, but I am unable
> to find the correspondent thread at the moment.
>=20
> How do we proceed here?
>=20
> Thanks, and best regards,
> Peter M=C3=BCller
>=20
>=20
>> https://community.ipfire.org/t/again-with-the-file-system-full-core-169/81=
86
>>=20
>> Signed-off-by: Peter M=C3=BCller <peter.mueller(a)ipfire.org>
>> ---
>> config/rootfiles/core/169/update.sh | 13 +++++++++++++
>> 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)
>>=20
>> diff --git a/config/rootfiles/core/169/update.sh b/config/rootfiles/core/1=
69/update.sh
>> index 3902e2d45..50f0bd8a4 100644
>> --- a/config/rootfiles/core/169/update.sh
>> +++ b/config/rootfiles/core/169/update.sh
>> @@ -150,6 +150,19 @@ ldconfig
>> # Apply sysctl changes
>> /etc/init.d/sysctl start
>>=20
>> +# Regenerate all initrds
>> +dracut --regenerate-all --force
>> +case "$(uname -m)" in
>> +	armv*)
>> +		mkimage -A arm -T ramdisk -C lzma -d /boot/initramfs-${KVER}-ipfire.img=
 /boot/uInit-${KVER}-ipfire
>> +		rm /boot/initramfs-${KVER}-ipfire.img
>> +		;;
>> +	aarch64)
>> +		mkimage -A arm64 -T ramdisk -C lzma -d /boot/initramfs-${KVER}-ipfire.i=
mg /boot/uInit-${KVER}-ipfire
>> +		# dont remove initramfs because grub need this to boot.
>> +		;;
>> +esac
>> +
>> # Start services
>> telinit u
>> /etc/init.d/firewall restart


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