Bug 1321050 - [RFE] skip most consolefonts, keymaps and unimaps
Summary: [RFE] skip most consolefonts, keymaps and unimaps
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: dracut
Version: 23
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: dracut-maint-list
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-03-24 14:35 UTC by Christian Stadelmann
Modified: 2016-11-24 16:28 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2016-11-24 16:28:41 UTC
Type: Bug


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Description Christian Stadelmann 2016-03-24 14:35:48 UTC
Description of problem:
Currently (on F23) a default initramfs contains about 500 keymaps, 200 consolefonts and 50 unifonts. On boot only one keymap and a few (usually 1-2) consolefonts will be used (don't know about unifonts). How about removing the others? This will reduce initramfs size by about 4 MiB.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
dracut-043-63.git20151211.fc23.x86_64

How reproducible:
always. use lsinitrd to analyze /boot/initramfs-${kernel version}

Steps to Reproduce:
1. update kernel or run `dracut /path/to/new/initramfs.img`

Comment 1 Harald Hoyer 2016-03-24 15:16:33 UTC
To turn this off:

echo 'i18n_install_all="no"' > /etc/dracut.conf.d/99-reducedi18n.conf

Comment 2 Christian Stadelmann 2016-03-24 21:10:45 UTC
(In reply to Harald Hoyer from comment #1)
> To turn this off:
> 
> echo 'i18n_install_all="no"' > /etc/dracut.conf.d/99-reducedi18n.conf

Works fine. Is this behavior intended?

Comment 3 Harald Hoyer 2016-04-14 11:34:42 UTC
(In reply to Christian Stadelmann from comment #2)
> (In reply to Harald Hoyer from comment #1)
> > To turn this off:
> > 
> > echo 'i18n_install_all="no"' > /etc/dracut.conf.d/99-reducedi18n.conf
> 
> Works fine. Is this behavior intended?

Yes, because people changed keyboards, languages, etc. and complained that a kernel command line change did not have any effect when entering their encrypted disk password.

Comment 4 Christian Stadelmann 2016-09-28 18:26:23 UTC
Hm, changing keyboard layout or language is only applied after a dracut initramfs rebuild anyway. So why not put this line on by default?

Comment 5 Harald Hoyer 2016-10-12 12:10:11 UTC
(In reply to Christian Stadelmann from comment #4)
> Hm, changing keyboard layout or language is only applied after a dracut
> initramfs rebuild anyway. So why not put this line on by default?

that is not true. you can change the kernel command line any time to set the keyboard

Comment 6 Christian Stadelmann 2016-10-13 08:59:42 UTC
(In reply to Harald Hoyer from comment #5)
> (In reply to Christian Stadelmann from comment #4)
> > Hm, changing keyboard layout or language is only applied after a dracut
> > initramfs rebuild anyway. So why not put this line on by default?
> 
> that is not true. you can change the kernel command line any time to set the
> keyboard

Oh yes, I've missed that point. If you want to keep this feature (I guess so), feel free to close this bug as WONTFIX or NOTABUG.

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