On Fri, 2025-04-11 at 20:52 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Apr 09, Hristo Venev <hri...@venev.name> wrote:
>
> > One reason to depend on decompression libraries is so that they are
> > added to the initramfs -- otherwise we end up with an initramfs
> > that is
> > unable to decompress .xz-compressed modules.
> Did you actually test this? If this really happens then it can be
> better
> fixed in /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/kmod by checking if
> compressed
> modules are being installed in the initramfs.
Yes, I tested it. On a kernel built with CONFIG_MODULE_DECOMPRESS=n
modules were not being loaded and I was dropped at the initramfs shell.
I fixed it by adding a hook with
copy_exec /usr/lib/*-linux-gnu/liblzma.so.5
but I'm not sure what the best way to detect the path is.
