Re: tip: bzip2/lzma now in tip:x86/setup-lzma

H. Peter Anvin
2009-01-06T07:23:48Z

Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 3:41 AM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
>> I'm thinking that with "preferred" we might just use the first one in the
>> priority list "lzma, bzip2, gzip, uncompressed" depending on what is
>> installed in the kernel.
>
> Only problem I faced with lzma is that, in some machines /usr/bin/lzma
> is not installed by default which leads to error in kernel
> compilations.
>
> Can we check in kernel config that lzma is installed on machine or not.

For building the default initramfs, we'd do it in a script. I don't
think there is any way to check the system for configuration options,
and I would argue that it *shouldn't* be, because it creates a
silent failure condition.

-hpa