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mkinitcptio - Arch Linux initramfs generation tools
CHANGES WITH v35.1:
Bugfix release:
* mkinitcpio failed to setup the required files in /dev/fd to support process
substitution. This resulted in hooks/resume failing to work after a shellcheck
fix up.
Contributions from: Morten Linderud
– 2023-03-19
CHANGES WITH v35:
New Features:
* mkinitcpio now has support for post-generation hooks. These can be
used to act on generated initramfs images such as Secure Boot signing.
The feature is documented in the mkinitcpio(8) man page.
Changes in mkinitcpio:
* Improved code quality of scripts with shellcheck.
* Replaced hexdump usage with od.
* The makefile was taught `coverage` which generates a coverage report of
mkinitcpio.
* Several improvements on the symlink handling of mkinitcpio.
* add_binary was taught to check for script interpreters and warns about
missing interpreters.
* UKIs are now generated with dynamically allocated section sizes instead
of the previous hard coded values.
* xz compression is now always executed in "multithreaded mode" through
the -T0 switch after the xz utilitiy's recent improvements in reproducibility.
* Several fixups to improve consistency for msg/error/warning messages.
* Preset scripts are now documented in the mkinitcpio(8) man page.
* mkinitcpio will now attempt to more thoroughly clean up its temporary files upon
exit.
* Modules included in the initramfs now retain their permissions instead of being
hard coded to 644.
* The kernel-install script will now utilize the staging area as expected by
systemd.
* The init script now passes file system labels, file system UUIDs, partition
labels and partition UUIDs directly to the mount and fsck commands instead of
resolving them.
Changes in hooks:
* install/sd-vconsole is now executed inside a subshell to avoid
affecting the global scope.
* install/sd-vconsole and install/consolefont now look for zstd compressed fonts.
Changes in packaging:
* The installed preset now includes commented-out suggestions for UKI and
default_options.
* libalpm/scripts/mkinitcpio will now also delete UKIs when
uninstalling a kernel.
Contributions from: Adam Maroti, cedric cvl, ff0x, Florian Eitel,
Josephine Pfeiffer, Markus Weippert, Michael Kopp, Morten Linderud,
nl6720, rogueai, Sebastian Wiesner, Tobias Powalowski, Yishen Miao
– 2023-03-18
CHANGES WITH v34:
Announcement of future breaking changes:
* Preset variables *_efi_image are deprecated in favor of *_uki and
option --uefi is deprecated in favor with --uki. The old variables and
options still work, but emit a deprecation warning.
Changes in mkinitcpio:
* Preserve relativity of symbolic links that reside in the same
directory as their targets.
* Fix symbolic link creation and create target files with correct
permissions.
* Document add_udev_rule that has been available since v31.
* Instead of using stat to get the file permissions and install to copy
it, use cp unless custom permissions are specified. This improves
overall speed of file additions.
* Existing test suite is migrated to bats (Bash Automated Testing
System) and more tests are now available.
* Ensure /proc/cmdline is read as text and make sure to append a newline
and NUL to the .cmdline embedded in unified kernel images. This works
around an issue where /proc/cmdline contains garbage.
* The kernel-install plugin now supports generating unified kernel
images.
* Warn if the interpreter (from the shebang) is missing when adding
"binaries" that are actually scripts.
Changes in hooks:
* hooks/shutdown once again works when /run/initramfs/ already exists in
the initramfs.
* install/autodetect looks up modules in the target kernel version
instead of the currently running one.
* install/consolefont, install/keymap and install/sd-vconsole now
declare vconsole.conf supported variables as local to prevent
conflicts with misconstructed hooks may set these variables globally.
* install/memdisk uses the add_udev_rule function available since v31.
Contributions from: Adam Maroti, Christian Hesse, Geert Hendrickx,
Hector Martin, Morten Linderud, Tcc, Tobias Powalowski, nl6720, rogueai
– 2022-12-07
CHANGES WITH v33:
Announcements:
* Development has moved to the Arch Linux GitLab instance. The new
URL is https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/mkinitcpio/mkinitcpio
Changes in mkinitcpio:
* Introduce DECOMPRESS_MODULES in mkinitcpio.conf. Allows the user to
toggle if modules should be recompressed during initramfs creation or
not. Defaults to "yes".
* Support UKI generation on AArch64.
* Introduce a new --remove switch which allows mkinitcpio to remove all
mkinitcpio generated files. Only works together
with the -p/-P switches currently.
* In the initramfs the file /etc/os-release, symlinked to
/etc/initrd-release, is now included. systemd enabled initramfs
environments might need this file.
* Supports finding kernel version in gzipped non-x86 kernels.
* Try to properly resolve symlinks when adding files into the initramfs.
Changes in hooks:
* install/fsck now includes the e2fsck binary and symlinks fsck.ext*
utilities to this binary.
* install/fsck will no longer attempt to include nonexistent fsck
helpers.
* install/kms will attempt to include modules that implement the privacy
screen feature. Currently the module names are hardcoded.
Changes in packaging:
* mkinitcpio-remove and mkinitcpio-install are now unified into a single
script installed to 'libalpm/scripts/mkinitcpio'.
Contributions from: 0x7F, Felix Yan, Hugo Osvaldo Barrera,
Morten Linderud, nl6720, rogueai, Simon Brüggen, Tobias Powalowski
– 2022-11-20