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W: No zstd in /usr/bin:/sbin:/bin, using gzip

Open adrelanos opened this issue 1 year ago • 5 comments

During initramfs creation.

W: No zstd in /usr/bin:/sbin:/bin, using gzip

Should zstd get installed by default?

adrelanos avatar Jun 22 '23 13:06 adrelanos

Yeah, I think we can start shipping zstd by default. But given that it started to show up in 2015 within Debian, it would be interesting to know since which release it's available. (I'm not strictly saying we shouldn't modify the main packages, but I'm also reluctant about breaking backwards comparability. But maybe it's also good time to think about ways how to implement a better packages file handling, related to e.g. https://github.com/grml/grml-debootstrap/issues/44 + https://github.com/grml/grml-debootstrap/issues/98).

mika avatar Jun 26 '23 06:06 mika

It’s in Debian 10 (buster). Are older releases supported by grml-debootstrap?

paulmenzel avatar Apr 02 '24 15:04 paulmenzel

It’s in Debian 10 (buster). Are older releases supported by grml-debootstrap?

Yes, see releasetable.txt:

.Current status
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|======================
|Release  |Status
|jessie   |works[1]
|stretch  |works[1]
|buster   |works[1]
|bullseye |works
|bookworm |works
|sid      |works[2]
|======================

(Reworking the package handling to make this per Debian release is on our wish list)

mika avatar Apr 02 '24 15:04 mika

From Debian BTS bug report #882244 (zstd: add zstd package to jessie-backports), I’d say it is not present in Debian 8 (jessie) proper and only in jessie-backports.

paulmenzel avatar Apr 02 '24 16:04 paulmenzel

ITP

paulmenzel avatar Apr 02 '24 16:04 paulmenzel