Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 6 Jan 2009 13:23:55 +0530 | From | "Jaswinder Singh Rajput" <> | Subject | Re: tip: bzip2/lzma now in tip:x86/setup-lzma |
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On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 12:54 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote: > 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.
Sorry, I was talking about kernel with CONFIG_KERNEL_LZMA=y
On some machines where /usr/bin/lzma was not installed I was getting errors during kernel compilation. So I installed lzma package and then kernel compiled for me on that machine.
-- JSR
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