Dear Debian CD Team, I gather you are responsible for the scripts that create the nonfree firmware.tar.gz and firmware.zip on: http://cdimage.debian.org .
You may well be aware of the Netboot firmware problem and the solution I authored some years back and published on the debian wiki at: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/NetbootFirmware Essentially this unpacks your firmware.tar.gz and repacks it as a cpio.gz with the debs in a subdirectory "/firmware". I was wondering if you would consider distributing the firmware.cpio.gz allongside or instead of the firmware.tar.gz ? This would make things a little easier for users of NetbootFirmware. I include a patch (untested) to your script make-firmware-image which should build a firmware.cpio.gz alongside the firmware.tar.gz and firmware.zip . Your comments, thoughts and suggestions would of course be welcome! Best Regards Alex Owen -- Private web search without a filter bubble: https://duckduckgo.com/
diff -uNr old/make-firmware-image new/make-firmware-image --- old/make-firmware-image 2013-10-26 14:21:24.000000000 +0100 +++ new/make-firmware-image 2013-10-26 14:25:08.000000000 +0100 @@ -39,4 +39,5 @@ tar czf ../firmware.tar.gz . zip -9rq ../firmware.zip . cd .. -ls -l $PWD/firmware.tar.gz $PWD/firmware.zip +pax -x sv4cpio -s'%firmware%/firmware%' -w firmware | gzip -c >firmware.cpio.gz +ls -l $PWD/firmware.cpio.gz $PWD/firmware.tar.gz $PWD/firmware.zip
