Em fevereiro 17, 2021 11:13 Christian Hesse escreveu:

Giancarlo Razzolini via arch-dev-public on Wed, 2021/02/17 10:51:

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All official kernels of Arch Linux now support zstd compressed initramfs images, so mkinitcpio is switching to zstd compressed images by default on the version that is currently on [testing].

You should name the version number, just to make sure the context is not lost after the move. --

Good idea. I've reworked the text of the first paragraph to: ---- As linux-lts moved to the 5.10 version, all official kernels of Arch Linux now support zstd compressed initramfs images, so mkinitcpio is switching to zstd compressed images by default with version 30, which is currently on [testing]. ---- You can also make changes to the md directly too, if you wish. Regards, Giancarlo Razzolini

Em fevereiro 17, 2021 12:05 Morten Linderud via arch-dev-public escreveu:

Why the rush though? The kernels where released not even a day ago and why risk breaking peoples setup? Even if partial upgrading the kernel is not recommended it's a fairly common strategy.

Hence the news entry?

I'd rather wait a good week for people to have completed the upgrades. I personally do this so I can chug along the testing repositories more easily and not have to reboot every day for my webcam to work.

It can be a week, a month, or even more before everyone using Arch has updated. This has the potential to affect only users running linux-lts on 5.4 or holding back linux on a version prior to 5.9, for some reason. Most users won't even be affected by this.

zstd is nice, but not lets-break-a-common-upgrade-strategy nice.

I can delay the update for an arbitrary number of days (a week?), but in the end it's arbitrary, without clear guidelines. Regards, Giancarlo Razzolini