void-packages/srcpkgs/mkinitcpio/patches/gzip-default.patch
Andrew J. Hesford 7998ae32c1 mkinitcpio: update to 30, add mkinitcpio-zfs subpackage
ZFS hooks taken from [1] and slightly modified:

1. If present, /etc/hostid is included in the image
2. Pool imports are read/write by default
3. Dracut-style root=zfs:<filesystem> arguments are recognized

[1] https://github.com/archzfs/archzfs/tree/master/src/zfs-utils
2021-05-17 18:02:45 +02:00

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Because not all Void kernels may support zstd, change the default initramfs
compression to gzip.
diff -ur a/man/mkinitcpio.conf.5.txt b/man/mkinitcpio.conf.5.txt
--- a/man/mkinitcpio.conf.5.txt 2021-02-16 21:37:31.000000000 -0500
+++ b/man/mkinitcpio.conf.5.txt 2021-05-17 09:33:32.418504652 -0400
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@
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 -ur a/mkinitcpio b/mkinitcpio
--- a/mkinitcpio 2021-02-16 21:37:31.000000000 -0500
+++ b/mkinitcpio 2021-05-17 09:34:15.970588222 -0400
@@ -508,7 +508,7 @@
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 -ur a/mkinitcpio.conf b/mkinitcpio.conf
--- a/mkinitcpio.conf 2021-02-16 21:37:31.000000000 -0500
+++ b/mkinitcpio.conf 2021-05-17 09:34:24.752605714 -0400
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@
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, gzip compression
# is used. Use 'cat' to create an uncompressed image.
#COMPRESSION="zstd"
#COMPRESSION="gzip"