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Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Benjamin Drung <
[email protected]>
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* Package name : rust-threecpio
Version : 0.8.0
Upstream Contact: Benjamin Drung <
[email protected]>
* URL :
https://github.com/bdrung/3cpio
* License : ISC
Programming Lang: Rust
Description : Manage initrd cpio archives
cpio is a tool to manage initramfs cpio files for the Linux kernel. The Linux
kernel's initramfs buffer format is based around the newc or crc cpio formats.
Multiple cpio archives can be concatenated and the last archive can be
compressed. Different compression algorithms can be used depending on what
support was compiled into the Linux kernel. 3cpio is tailored to initramfs
cpio files and will not gain support for other cpio formats.
.
3cpio supports creating, examining, listing, and extracting the content of
the initramfs cpio.
I like to join the Debian Rust packaging team and maintain 3cpio as part
of the team. I'll be at DebConf next week which would be a good time to
get in contact with the team and learn the specifics of it.
The plan is to replace cpio by 3cpio in Ubuntu main by letting
initramfs-tools and dracut learn to use 3cpio. The change for
initramfs-tools is already ready for review/testing:
https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/initramfs-tools/-/merge_requests/172
3cpio is written in Rust and is faster than cpio. See
https://github.com/bdrung/3cpio for benchmark results.
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Benjamin Drung
Debian & Ubuntu Developer
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