Hi Folks Upgrade has proven to be functional on the i386 platform. I cannot judge other platforms, as I don't have any hardware to test with.
I would like to know what you judge necessary to enable the packages repository to serve the necessary files. As KP pointed out, existing procedures build the packages in the current format, but I have no indication what these procedures are. I would like to attack a holy cow here, the modules tarballs. I judge them to be unnecessary. IMHO they serve no real purpose, as they need to be unpacked in any case before the modules can be accessed and installed by any hwdetect driven or other method. There is hardly any space saving with these tarballs, as the modules themselves are compressed and the tarballs need to be unpacked to find and access the modules. I know this can be done on the fly but it is quite resource heavy. The only reason why they still exist are file systems which either cannot handle long filenames and/or do not care about letter cases. I see that some packages right now have names which would not be possible in the standard 8.3 format and so assume that the letter case is solved too. Concerning the size of our repositories on sourceforge I would like to start a discussion on how to differentiate the various releases of LEAF. Right now it appears that each version consists of the whole collection of the packages, if individual packages are changed or not. They are just written to a directory in the repository and thus duplicated. If we had a way to only update packages which really are different, we could use tags or branches to differentiate releases and save quite some space. This of course needs some versioning of individual packages and not only LEAF releases. cheers ET
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