On Wednesday, 24 July 2024 13:21:36 CEST Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2024-07-24 10:58:24 +0200, Diederik de Haas wrote: > > Uninstalling firmware YOU DON'T NEED is a perfectly valid solution. > > How can one do that? I mean, get only the Nvidia firmware for my > particular Nvidia card, not everything of all the existing cards > (which is really the issue).
No, uninstalling firmware *packages* you don't need.
firmware-misc-nonfree recommends firmware-nvidia-graphics, firmware-intel-
graphics, firmware-intel-misc and firmware-mediatek because firmware *files*
which were previously in misc-nonfree got moved into their own package.
But if you don't have mediatek hardware, you don't have a reason to install
the firmware-mediatek package and when you did, you can remove/uninstall
it again.
> > What IS a general solution is upgrading initramfs-tools to version 0.143
> > currently available in Experimental as that can handle symlinks to
> > *directories*, whereas 0.142 could only deal with symlinks to files.
>
> Will it be uploaded to unstable soon?
> Installing core packages from Experimental is rather scary.
There's nothing scary about Experimental, it's just another archive area.
The only difference is that it has priority: 1 (by default), which means that
when a new version is uploaded to Experimental, it won't ('even') upgrade
to that new version. And you only get packages from Experimental when
you explicitly request them, which is what you need to do in this case.
> BTW, why doesn't compression make the symlink limitation disappear?
> I mean that if there are several copies of the same firmware, why
> doesn't compression remove all the redundancies?
The bug, afaik fixed in 0.143, is that it didn't maintain the directory
symlinks, but instead copied the linked directory in full ... resulting in
a MUCH larger size.
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