[Bug 1072015] Re: lsinitramfs not aware of COMPRESS in initramfs.conf

[Ben Hutchings]

Fixed in Debian version 0.120 and Ubuntu version 0.120ubuntu1.

** Changed in: initramfs-tools (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Fix Released

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Title:
  lsinitramfs not aware of COMPRESS in initramfs.conf

Status in initramfs-tools package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Add "COMPRESS=xz" to /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf; now
  /boot/initramfs* will be xz-compressed cpio files.  Then `lsinitramfs`
  fails:

  $ lsinitramfs /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-32-generic
  /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-32-generic

  gzip: /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-32-generic: not in gzip format
  cpio: premature end of archive

  Patch to follow.

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