Bug#790095: lsinitramfs(8): multiple-segmented initramfs supported

From	Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.kernel
Subject	Bug#790095: lsinitramfs(8): multiple-segmented initramfs supported
Date	2015-06-27 02:00 +0200
Message-ID	<pFLHk-5xo-9@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
Organization	linux.* mail to news gateway

Cross-posted to 2 groups.

Show all headers | View raw

[Multipart message — attachments visible in raw view] - view raw

Package: initramfs-tools
Version: 0.120
Severity: normal
Tags: patch

From initramfs-tools 0.118 (Oct. 2014):
  * [d5f4cd6] lsinitramfs: Parse and list files that include early microcode.
    Thanks to Brett Parker and Olivier Berger. (Closes: #717805)

So the manpage description as the following is incorrect.
| BUGS
|        lsinitramfs  cannot deal with multiple-segmented initramfs images, such
|        as those created when an early  (uncompressed)  initramfs  with  system
|        firmware is prepended to the regular compressed initrams, or when over‐
|        lay data is appended to the initramfs.

So please knock off these lines.

In addition to this, I wonder why not offer utility to extract the
regular compressed initrams by using the same code with trivial changes.
It is pain to manually extract the new initrd image content.

I attach patch here one as example against the git master.

Hmmm...
 https://wiki.debian.org/InitramfsDebug
This needs to be updated.

Back to linux.debian.kernel | Previous | Next — Next in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread

Thread

Bug#790095: lsinitramfs(8): multiple-segmented initramfs supported Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org> - 2015-06-27 02:00 +0200
  Processed: Re: lsinitramfs(8): multiple-segmented initramfs supported owner@bugs.debian.org (Debian Bug Tracking System) - 2015-12-09 04:30 +0100
  Bug#790095: lsinitramfs(8): multiple-segmented initramfs supported Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2015-12-09 04:30 +0100
  Bug#807457: lsinitramfs(8): multiple-segmented initramfs supported Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2015-12-09 04:30 +0100
    Bug#807457: initramfs-tools: Add command to unpack initramfs Kevin Locke <kevin@kevinlocke.name> - 2016-02-10 05:30 +0100
  Bug#790095: marked as done (lsinitramfs(8): multiple-segmented  initramfs supported) owner@bugs.debian.org (Debian Bug Tracking System) - 2015-12-28 03:50 +0100
  Bug#807457: marked as done (Add command to unpack initramfs) owner@bugs.debian.org (Debian Bug Tracking System) - 2016-12-16 00:20 +0100

csiph-web