Draft: Proposal for how to add compression parameters via the command line for #158 (!195) · Merge requests · Arch Linux / Mkinitcpio / mkinitcpio

Open Michael Kopp requested to merge kopp/mkinitcpio:feature/add-swtich-to-add-compression-parameters into master Jan 31, 2023

Allow to add compression parameters via the command line.

This allows to build a preset such as

ALL_config="/etc/mkinitcpio.conf"
ALL_kver="/boot/vmlinuz-linux"

PRESETS=('demo')

demo_config="/etc/mkinitcpio.conf"
demo_image="/tmp/initramfs-demo.img"
demo_options="--add-compression-parameter -10 --add-compression-parameter --fast"