On Wed, 2012-03-21 at 08:46 +0000, Neil Williams wrote: > On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 08:03:30 +0000 > Neil Williams <[email protected]> wrote: > > > The issue can be worked around, as described in the bug report, but you > > will likely find that there isn't a suitable kernel for your device > > available to the installer for Squeeze. > > The reason for that, btw, is that vanilla Debian kernel packages have > to be VERY LARGE - the typical Squeeze kernel installs to 100Mb whereas > the typical customised kernel build will be 2.3Mb installed with 6-12Mb > of modules. > > It completely defeats the point of installing an Emdebian Grip base > system if the kernel package consumes *more* space than is saved by > switching to Emdebian Grip in the first place. > > Also, Emdebian needs to support systems which put the kernel into a > separate partition, systems which use a "rescue environment" kernel, > systems which don't use initramfs and boards which don't have > bootloader packages. > > Debian kernels have to cope with everything, Emdebian installs are > much, much more specialised for a specific board. > > Just because we've made some ISO's available as an experiment, it does > not mean that the ISO's are 'useful' for average installations or for > more than as a test environment. I've got some plans for fixing the > immediate problem but how to get Debian Installer to use embedded > kernels is a harder problem. > A less involved to way to get sort of half way between debian proper and emdebian is to exlude some files with dpkg's path-include and path-exclude features.
http://raphaelhertzog.com/2010/11/15/save-disk-space-by-excluding-useless-files-with-dpkg/ a good move would be path-exclude=/usr/share/doc/* path-include=/usr/share/doc/*/copyright* as change-log files can be very big. Shawn Landden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1332362116.6223.5.camel@shawn-ssd
