Re: rdsetroot and gzip'd bsd.rd

Should rdsetroot be able to edit gzip'd files? I am not sure about
that.

BTW, at least one arch bsd.rd's has been gzip'd over the decades, so
this is simply an observation on a common architecture, it has been
with us forever.

Daniel Jakots <danj@chown.me> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Running -current amd64, I fetched a -current amd64 bsd.rd, then run
> $ rdsetroot -x bsd.rd ramdisk
> rdsetroot: bsd.rd: not an elf
>
> I didn't expect that, so I run file on it which said
> bsd.rd: gzip compressed data, max compression, from Unix
>
> I naively tried to gunzip it:
> $ mv bsd.rd bsd.rd.gz && gunzip bsd.rd.gz
> $ file bsd.rd
> bsd.rd: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1
>
> so I ran rdsetroot again
> $ rdsetroot -x bsd.rd ramdisk
> rdsetroot: symbol table not found
>
>
> I guess it's because of
> https://github.com/openbsd/src/commit/aa6c3ec2488169493ed4877eea65efb00c967050
>
>
> Is it because now bsd.rd is stripped and rdsetroot needs to be updated
> to not expect a symbol table? Or am I missing something?
>
>
> Cheers,
> Daniel
>