On 2024-08-01 11:32:10 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > Vincent Lefevre composed on 2024-08-01 17:18 (UTC+0200): > > > On 2024-08-01 10:23:53 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > > >> the bug fix should trim initrd size considerably before > >> too long. > > > What do you mean? > > After package containing bug fix is installed, newly generated > initrds will be considerably smaller that they were or would have > been before the fix arrived.
There are no fixes for the current increase. I think that you got confused with another bug. Let me explain. On 2024-08-01 10:23:53 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > Vincent Lefevre composed on 2024-08-01 15:26 (UTC+0200): > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 69879473 2024-07-19 02:11:58 initrd.img-6.7.12-amd64 > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 112644015 2024-08-01 13:01:40 initrd.img-6.9.12-amd64 > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1076561 No, bug 1076561 is fixed. FYI, without this fix, the initrd file was so big that the kernel package could not even be installed on this machine. Now, I can install it, but the initrd file is nevertheless much bigger. If I understand correctly, firmware-nonfree got new drivers for many Nvidia cards, hence the big increase; that's why firmware-misc-nonfree was split: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1057786 But this is not helpful for users of Nvidia cards, despite the fact is that in practice, one just needs a small part of these drivers. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
