Re: debian-installer: dropping library reduction pass?

2015-07-24 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi Aurélien, Cyril Brulebois (2015-05-13): > Aurelien Jarno (2015-05-13): > > I am therefore going to replace mklibs by mklibs-copy in git. It's a > > small change that can be easily reverted if needed. In a few weeks if > > nothing is reported as broken, I'll start removing mklibs completely. >

Re: debian-installer: dropping library reduction pass?

2015-05-13 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2015-05-13 at 15:48 +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks all for the feedback. > > On 2015-05-10 23:37, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > Aurelien Jarno (2015-05-10): > > > Any comment or opinion? > > > > I'm pretty sure you know exotic archs better than I do, so if arm*, mips* > > et

Re: debian-installer: dropping library reduction pass?

2015-05-13 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Aurelien Jarno (2015-05-13): > After this positive answer, I have done more checks and found the > following possible issues: > - After this change the DNS-323 (and thus CH3SNAS) will only have 500kB > left for a future initrd size increase. If we go over the limit we can > switch to xz compre

Re: debian-installer: dropping library reduction pass?

2015-05-13 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Hi, Thanks all for the feedback. On 2015-05-10 23:37, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Aurelien Jarno (2015-05-10): > > Any comment or opinion? > > I'm pretty sure you know exotic archs better than I do, so if arm*, mips* > etc. are not going to take a direct hit with this change, and if mitigating > i

Re: debian-installer: dropping library reduction pass?

2015-05-10 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi Aurélien, and thanks for this state of the mklibs. Aurelien Jarno (2015-05-10): > debian-installer uses a library reduction pass (mklibs) in order to > reduce initrd's size. This is needed to: > - fit the initrd on the boot media (originally 1.44MB floppy disk) > - reduce the memory consumpti

Re: debian-installer: dropping library reduction pass?

2015-05-10 Thread Turbo Fredriksson
On May 10, 2015, at 9:00 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Aurelien Jarno, le Sun 10 May 2015 20:51:23 +0200, a écrit : >> This has some drawbacks: > > I see mklibs as a fragile thing indeed. Seconded. Since the rumors of ZoL in Debian GNU/Linux stated that there would "probably", "most likely" (e

Re: debian-installer: dropping library reduction pass?

2015-05-10 Thread Samuel Thibault
Aurelien Jarno, le Sun 10 May 2015 20:51:23 +0200, a écrit : > This has some drawbacks: I see mklibs as a fragile thing indeed. Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https:

debian-installer: dropping library reduction pass?

2015-05-10 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Hi, debian-installer uses a library reduction pass (mklibs) in order to reduce initrd's size. This is needed to: - fit the initrd on the boot media (originally 1.44MB floppy disk) - reduce the memory consumption as the uncompressed initrd has to fit in memory during the installation process Thi