From c6c690b5afca968fb2e87343646f51a13f0c2337 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Richard Jones <rjones@trick.home.annexia.org>
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:41:33 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add --nocompress option, version 2.3

---
 configure.ac                 |  2 +-
 febootstrap-to-initramfs.pod |  7 +++++++
 febootstrap-to-initramfs.sh  | 24 ++++++++++++++++++------
 3 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index e6b6df0..a14c88c 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ dnl Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
 dnl
 dnl Written by Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
 
-AC_INIT(febootstrap,2.2)
+AC_INIT(febootstrap,2.3)
 AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
 
 AC_CHECK_PROG(PERLDOC,[perldoc],[perldoc],[no])
diff --git a/febootstrap-to-initramfs.pod b/febootstrap-to-initramfs.pod
index 951cc10..eedaf0f 100644
--- a/febootstrap-to-initramfs.pod
+++ b/febootstrap-to-initramfs.pod
@@ -33,6 +33,13 @@ any others are ignored.
 When the C<--files> option is not given, all files in C<DIR> are added
 to the initramfs image.
 
+=item --nocompress
+
+This prevents the initramfs image from being compressed.
+
+Linux can boot from uncompressed initramfs images (in fact, faster),
+but they take up a lot more space on disk.
+
 =back
 
 =head1 /init
diff --git a/febootstrap-to-initramfs.sh b/febootstrap-to-initramfs.sh
index 83c661c..dc72963 100755
--- a/febootstrap-to-initramfs.sh
+++ b/febootstrap-to-initramfs.sh
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ unset CDPATH
 
 TEMP=`getopt \
         -o '' \
-        --long files:,help \
+        --long files:,nocompress,help \
         -n febootstrap-to-initramfs -- "$@"`
 if [ $? != 0 ]; then
     echo "febootstrap-to-initramfs: problem parsing the command line arguments"
@@ -30,11 +30,12 @@ if [ $? != 0 ]; then
 fi
 eval set -- "$TEMP"
 
+compress=yes
 files=
 
 usage ()
 {
-    echo "Usage: febootstrap-to-initramfs [--files=filelist] DIR"
+    echo "Usage: febootstrap-to-initramfs [--files=filelist] [--nocompress] DIR"
     echo "Please read febootstrap-to-initramfs(8) man page for more information."
 }
 
@@ -46,6 +47,9 @@ while true; do
 	--help)
 	    usage
 	    exit 0;;
+	--nocompress)
+	    compress=no
+	    shift;;
 	--)
 	    shift
 	    break;;
@@ -69,18 +73,26 @@ fi
 
 set -e
 
+(
 if [ -f fakeroot.log ]; then
     if [ -z "$files" ]; then
 	fakeroot -i fakeroot.log \
-	sh -c 'find -not -name fakeroot.log -a -print0 | cpio -o -0 -H newc | gzip --best'
+	sh -c 'find -not -name fakeroot.log -a -print0 | cpio --quiet -o -0 -H newc'
     else
 	fakeroot -i fakeroot.log \
-	sh -c 'cpio -o -H newc | gzip --best' < $files
+	sh -c 'cpio --quiet -o -H newc' < $files
     fi
 else
     if [ -z "$files" ]; then
-	find -not -name fakeroot.log -a -print0 | cpio -o -0 -H newc | gzip --best
+	find -not -name fakeroot.log -a -print0 | cpio --quiet -o -0 -H newc
     else
-	cpio -o -H newc < $files | gzip --best
+	cpio --quiet -o -H newc < $files
     fi
 fi
+) | (
+if [ "$compress" = "yes" ]; then
+    gzip --best
+else
+    cat
+fi
+)
-- 
1.8.3.1