Re: Re: Kernel 6.9.9 (amd64) results in huge initrd / initramfs size
Ash Joubert wrote:
> On 2024-07-20 03:39, Celejar wrote:
>
> Thanks much!
>
> [...]
>
> As per another message in this thread, I've already filed a bug against
> linux-image-6.9.9-amd64, but I suppose I should update the report with
> this information, indicating that it's not really a problem with that
> package.
>
>
> You are welcome! Please close your kernel bug report.
>
> Hard to pin this on the firmware package either as the recommends is
> arguably the right behaviour to prevent missing firmware at boot time,
> but the recommends has this surprising side-effect for those with
> a /boot partition with insufficient free space for such a large
> firmware package. It is not dangerous because the old initrd is not
> removed until the new one is written successfully, but it is annoying!
Update: FWIW, Debian Developer Ben Hutchings actually assigned this
issue a "grave" severity, and it was ultimately moved to the
initramfs-tools package. It's now fixed:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1076561
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Celejar
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