Control: affects -1 firmware-nvidia-graphics On Friday, 19 July 2024 17:56:30 CEST Chris Hofstaedtler wrote: > Control: retitle -1 initramfs-tools: duplicates nvidia firmware files > > On Fri, Jul 19, 2024 at 04:43:47PM +0200, Diederik de Haas wrote: > > > In any case, the upgrade should work for any user, including when > > > all these packages are needed. > > > > The real problem seems to be the size of /boot/ ... > > Not really.
It's nice that we can *postpone* that problem a while longer. > A large part of the problem is that initramfs explodes > the size of the nvidia firmware. > > On the root file system, in /usr/lib/firmware, the nvidia firmware > files are 66MB (uncompressed!). > However, the initrd.img grows from 64M to 250M (compressed!) when > firmware-nvidia-graphics is installed. There is something seriously > wrong here. > > One of the things I've noticed: > > /usr/lib/firmware/nvidia/tu104/gsp is supposed to be a symlink to > /usr/lib/firmware/nvidia/tu102/gsp. However, in initrd.img, this is > a copy of the directory; accounting for 25M on its own. > > No wonder the initrd is way too large. Nice find! Adding firmware-nvidia-graphics as affects (which hopefully will warn users of that package of this problem) > There are probably more cases where the symlinks are not preserved. > This needs to be fixed in initramfs (or whatever hook script copies > the firmware files). There was a relatively recent upload of initramfs-tools 0.143 to *Experimental* and I'm curious if that would help in this case.
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