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@DavHau DavHau commented May 24, 2025

support other compression than gzip
Also make compatible to the upstream nixpkgs kexec tarball format

Also make compatible to the upstream nixpkgs kexec tarball format
TMPDIR=/root/kexec setsid ${maybeSudo} /root/kexec/kexec/run --kexec-extra-flags "${kexecExtraFlags}"
if [[ -e /root/kexec/kexec/run ]]; then
TMPDIR=/root/kexec setsid ${maybeSudo} /root/kexec/kexec/run --kexec-extra-flags "${kexecExtraFlags}"
elif [[ -e /root/kexec/kexec-boot ]]; then
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Can we move this to a different PR? I am not so sure what this would look like. And there are a few feature upstream kexec tarball would need to support.

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