Bug#1076695: debian-installer: /boot partition created by installer isn't big enough
Control: reassign -1 initramfs-tools
Control: found -1 0.142
Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> wrote (Mon, 22 Jul 2024 08:47:44 +0200):
> On 22/07/2024 at 04:39, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> > Jonathan Kamens <jik@kamens.us> (2024-07-21):
> >> Something changed recently in testing which caused the size of my
> >> initrd to go up A Lot, e.g., on one computer from 70MB to 248MB.
> (...)
> > Have you tried comparing before/after to see where this increase comes
> > from? Checking the compression settings would also make sense.
>
> The significant initramfs size increase is caused by the combination of
> the new package firmware-nvidia-graphics, which provides firmware for
> Nvidia GPUs (injected by plymouth) and contains directory symlinks, and
> initramsf-tools < 0.143 which converts directory symlinks into real
> directories and duplicate their contents. It seems that initramfs-tools
> 0.143, currently in experimental, fixes the issue.
>
> Other related bug reports:
> <https://bugs.debian.org/1076582>
> <https://bugs.debian.org/1076539>
> <https://bugs.debian.org/972396>
>
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