On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:36:01 -0700, Vagrant Cascadian <vagr...@freegeek.org> writes:
> understandable. using the logic that the proposed new etherboot > package would only include roms useful to virtual machines also > present in the archive could hopefully keep the scope of the package > sane. If I understand correctly, the problems are: - etherboot ships with rom.gz, which is not usable by qemu, (major) - etherboot installed package size is 32MB (minor). I don't think we have to solve the second point, everyone who is using a virtualization system can afford the files to be installed, I think a new binary package is a bigger bloat in this case. (For everyone, even for users, who doesn't know or care about what etherboot or qemu/kvm is.) We can solve the first problem in different ways: - via a new binary package which contains the mentioned roms uncompressed, - adding libz support to qemu, (how hard this would be?) - ship the mentioned roms in the etherboot package uncompressed. If option 2 is too hard, I prefer option 3. What is your opinion, it is a little change in the binary package, nobody will really notice and only affect people who have etherboot installed. After this change, kvm/qemu can recommmend on etherboot if they want to use the roms for pxe support (or depend on it if having the roms are mandatory for kvm/qemu to even start up). Gergely -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org