On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Mads Kiilerich <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I am people, but I assume you meant the opposite: building a i686 LiveCD
> from a x86_64 host?

Right, in cases where the host machine is not the same as the target.

> Ok, that is one reason for not using the build systems syslinux. But
> syslinux is still not really needed in the image and thus adds 3 Mb (?)
> without reason. Perhaps we could extract the relevant files from the rpm
> without installing it. Ok, someone would have to provide a patch for that
> ...

I suppose. But I've already been working on trying to get syslinux
moved to the base DVD
where someone doesn't require having to rsync the 20GB Everything tree
to create LiveCDs.

I am not sure how a savings of 3MB really comes into play.
Is there something more important I am not actually seeing here than just a 3MB
package, which actually lets the LiveCD have a method of bootloading?


>> Also related, is that in F14 syslinux does not have a Perl dependency
>> anymore anyways.
>
> I thought that too, but syslinux-4.02-1.fc14.i686.rpm do require perl
> according to http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/rpminfo?rpmID=2109166 ???

Odd. Well. Here is what syslinux contains that are Perl scripts:
[r...@localhost tmp]# file $(rpm -ql syslinux) | grep perl
/usr/bin/isohybrid.pl:                                             a
/usr/bin/perl script text executable
/usr/bin/keytab-lilo:                                              a
/usr/bin/perl script text executable
/usr/bin/lss16toppm:                                               a
/usr/bin/perl script text executable
/usr/bin/md5pass:                                                  a
/usr/bin/perl script text executable
/usr/bin/mkdiskimage:                                              a
/usr/bin/perl script text executable
/usr/bin/ppmtolss16:                                               a
/usr/bin/perl script text executable
/usr/bin/pxelinux-options:                                         a
/usr/bin/perl script text executable
/usr/bin/sha1pass:                                                 a
/usr/bin/perl script text executable
/usr/bin/syslinux2ansi:                                            a
/usr/bin/perl script text executable
[r...@localhost tmp]#
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