Anas, I don't know the old hybrid ISOs problem, but from current mic2 code. I also find we need not maintain syslinux in tools projects now. So we should remove it from devel:tools:building and Tools:Building, and cleanup its spec file in MeeGo projects. Is it ok?
- jf.ding On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 06:06:23AM +0800, Nashif, Anas wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 6:08 PM, Kok, Auke-jan H <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 12:16 AM, Nashif, Anas <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 7:12 AM, Jian-feng Ding > <[email protected] > > > > wrote: > >> > >> Auke, > >> Because the syslinux is maintained in devel:tools:building, which need > to > >> support many > >> distros other than MeeGo. Just like mic2 and spectacle, etc. > >> > >> - jf.ding > > > > I doubt the distros we want to support do not support syslinux, is there > a > > reason why we want to force our version of the package on other distros? > > It also sounds like a recipe for trouble to replace e.g. SuSE's > bootloader with a half-baked MeeGo version. > > I can understand having a sane fallback version in the tools repo, but > then that shouldn't be the version we have in MeeGo. We really need to > push the btrfs features in 4.04 into MeeGo for instance... > > The best solution seems to just drop syslinux from devel:tools and > maintain a non-conflicted syslinux for MeeGo only. We definately don't > want unintended consequences from e.g. non-MeeGo changes to syslinux > affecting all MeeGo systems. Remember that this is a bootloader, not > just some random development tool. > > > Yes, agree. If I remember correctly, the only reason we added syslinux back > then was the support for hybrid ISOs few years back. Status of syslinux and > other tools needs to always be evaluated in the tools repo and when something > is not needed anymore it needs to be removed and the distro version needs to > be > used. > > Anas > > > > Auke > > _______________________________________________ MeeGo-packaging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-packaging
