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Use of a Linux initramfs to fully automate the bootstrapping process
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Early unxz support #348

Closed Googulator closed 6 months ago

Googulator commented 8 months ago

Right now, xz is built quite late, after the final Bash. If we had an "unxz" utility early on, srcfs & download size could be significantly reduced, by preferring xz archives wherever possible. For example, linux-4.9.10.tar.xz is 46MiB smaller than linux-4.9.10.tar.gz, which is what we currently use.

https://github.com/pts/muxzcat might be a good starting point, although this one expects input on stdin and writes output to stdout, which is incompatible with kaem.

fosslinux commented 8 months ago

This is probably better placed oriansj/mescc-tools-extra.

I fully agree with this in principle though.

Googulator commented 7 months ago

436 achieves this.