Bug#611046: misleading message in verbose mode (gzip not found, using gzip)

[maximilian attems <max@stro.at>]

tags 611046 pending
stop

On Tue, 25 Jan 2011, Gianluigi Tiesi wrote:

> due to a script assignment misplacement mkinitramfs displays a misleading message:
> 
> No gzip in /usr/bin:/sbin:/bin, using gzip
> 
> instead of
> 
> No lzma in /usr/bin:/sbin:/bin, using gzip

lol indeed.
 
> this makes difficult to known that it needs lzma executable in the path
> (I tought xz instead)
> 
> the attached patch fixes the problem

thanks applied to maks/zip_error, pending review it will land
in master for next initramfs-tools relase.
http://git.debian.org/?p=kernel/initramfs-tools.git;a=summary
 
> --- /usr/sbin/mkinitramfs.orig  2011-01-25 03:18:04.183906059 +0100
> +++ /usr/sbin/mkinitramfs       2011-01-25 03:16:12.529490992 +0100
this is wrong path, please use git as described in
http://git.debian.org/?p=kernel/initramfs-tools.git;a=blob_plain;f=docs/maintainer-notes.html;hb=HEAD
to allow quicker and easier patch application,
also your patch is below is white space mangled probalby due to
your mail user agent.
> @@ -136,9 +136,9 @@
> 
>  if ! command -v "${compress}" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
>         compress=gzip
> -       COMPRESS=gzip
>         [ "${verbose}" = y ] && \
>                 echo "No ${COMPRESS} in ${PATH}, using gzip"
> +       COMPRESS=gzip
>  fi
> 
>  if ! `grep -q -i ^config_rd_${COMPRESS%p} /boot/config-${version}` ; then

thanks.

-- 
maks