This hack will be fixed as boot-floppies is deprecated with the post
woody release. What's the point of putting it into policy?
Only reason is that this is something we obviously needed to do in the
past, so it is reasonable to expect the need in the future. Better to have
a clean way of
On 17-Sep-01, 13:47 (CDT), David Kimdon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I see that we have a situation where we have created some specialized
handling of certain packages. If we can find a way to generalize that
handling so that it will be useful to more people I'd call that a win.
That is what I
David Kimdon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This hack will be fixed as boot-floppies is deprecated with the post
woody release. What's the point of putting it into policy?
Only reason is that this is something we obviously needed to do in the
past, so it is reasonable to expect the need in
David Kimdon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The purpose of this change is to give Debian a more elegant way of
handling reduced footprint debs. Rather than including
special-purpose binaries in the archive (the status quo), I suggest we
support hooks in source packages that produce size
On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 06:13:33PM -0700, David Kimdon wrote:
In any case, I tossed around other strings like 'reduced-size' or maybe
'optimize-footprint', etc.
I propose small. That's basically what it means, and it's a single
word which makes parsing easier.
Also, if you intend to use the
Previously Richard Braakman wrote:
- Specific compiler flags (-Os?)
That one would make sense
- Turning off compile-time options for rarely used features
That's going to be highly controversial
- No documentation (not even the copyright file?)
- Installing most-popular subsets of
Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 02:39:46PM +0200 wrote:
Previously Richard Braakman wrote:
- Specific compiler flags (-Os?)
That one would make sense
- Turning off compile-time options for rarely used features
That's going to be highly controversial
FWIW that is one thing that e2fsprogs-bf
Previously David Kimdon wrote:
FWIW that is one thing that e2fsprogs-bf does.
But that has a specific purpose, boot floppies. In the general case
you have no idea what kind of usage you will get.
I wish a non-invasive approach would solve the problem. However I don't
think we will arrive at
Package: debian-policy
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Hi,
The purpose of this change is to give Debian a more elegant way of
handling reduced footprint debs. Rather than including
special-purpose binaries in the archive (the status quo), I suggest we
support hooks in source packages that
Previously David Kimdon wrote:
The purpose of this change is to give Debian a more elegant way of
handling reduced footprint debs. Rather than including
special-purpose binaries in the archive (the status quo), I suggest we
support hooks in source packages that produce size optimized
Euhm, you serious expect the installer to be able to compile itself
during an install?
Wichert.
umm, no, looks like I said something confusing.
I'm talking about the installer's build system, not the actual install.
A bit more elaboration:
Currently :
boot-floppies - when we are
On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 04:01:20PM -0700, David Kimdon wrote:
Both systems grab source pacakages during the build, rather than
binaries. embedded is put into DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS, and the packages
are compiled small, fit for boot-floppies or debian-installer. We
then take those generated binary
David Kimdon wrote:
boot-floppies - when we are creating the _install_ root filesystem we
apt-get a bunch of binary packages, extract them into a temporary
area, remove stuff we don't want, do library reduction etc.. Some of
the packages that we grab are special *-bf packages, smaller
Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 01:39:50AM +0100 wrote:
On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 04:01:20PM -0700, David Kimdon wrote:
Both systems grab source pacakages during the build, rather than
binaries. embedded is put into DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS, and the packages
are compiled small, fit for boot-floppies or
David Kimdon wrote:
Sorry, no. Take for example pump-udeb. It has a maintainer, all is
distributed, the only difference is where it gets built.
The parts of debian-installer that have no life outside of
debian-installer may just live as source packages, and not be built,
much like
Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 09:06:12PM -0400 wrote:
David Kimdon wrote:
boot-floppies - when we are creating the _install_ root filesystem we
apt-get a bunch of binary packages, extract them into a temporary
area, remove stuff we don't want, do library reduction etc.. Some of
the packages that
Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 09:30:15PM -0400 wrote:
David Kimdon wrote:
Sorry, no. Take for example pump-udeb. It has a maintainer, all is
distributed, the only difference is where it gets built.
The parts of debian-installer that have no life outside of
debian-installer may just live as
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