Re: debian-installer status -- 2002-08-26

2002-08-28 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 12:39:06AM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: - dak needs to stop unaccepting new udebs. This should be fixed now, anyway. - a bunch of full-sized udebs needs to be created (more on this below) That's such a contradiction in terms, btw :) Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns

Re: debian-installer status -- 2002-08-26

2002-08-27 Thread Junichi Uekawa
On Tue, 27 Aug 2002 02:36:33 +1000 Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's going to go on the rootfs? Presumably something like: libc6, busybox-udeb, ash-udeb udpkg, cdebconf, anna *-retriever and any dependencies they have /lib/modules/kernel/** It could be

Re: debian-installer status -- 2002-08-26

2002-08-27 Thread Glenn McGrath
On Tue, 27 Aug 2002 18:28:12 +0900 Junichi Uekawa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 27 Aug 2002 02:36:33 +1000 Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's going to go on the rootfs? Presumably something like: libc6, busybox-udeb, ash-udeb udpkg, cdebconf, anna

Re: debian-installer status -- 2002-08-26

2002-08-27 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 06:28:12PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: On Tue, 27 Aug 2002 02:36:33 +1000 Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's going to go on the rootfs? Presumably something like: libc6, busybox-udeb, ash-udeb udpkg, cdebconf, anna *-retriever and any

Re: debian-installer status -- 2002-08-26

2002-08-27 Thread Chris Tillman
On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 06:28:12PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: On Tue, 27 Aug 2002 02:36:33 +1000 Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's going to go on the rootfs? Presumably something like: libc6, busybox-udeb, ash-udeb udpkg, cdebconf, anna *-retriever and any

Re: debian-installer status -- 2002-08-26

2002-08-26 Thread Wartan Hachaturow
On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 12:39:06AM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: - - prebaseconfig needs to stop using grub directly and depend on {grub,lilo}-installer instead. Uhm. Shouldn't it depend on something like boot-installer, which would be provided by all boot loaders installer packages? Alpha

Re: debian-installer status -- 2002-08-26

2002-08-26 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Wartan Hachaturow | On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 12:39:06AM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: | | - - prebaseconfig needs to stop using grub directly and depend on |{grub,lilo}-installer instead. | | Uhm. Shouldn't it depend on something like boot-installer, which would | be provided by all

Re: debian-installer status -- 2002-08-26

2002-08-26 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 01:45:03PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: I was kind of thinking of udebootstrap, but that might be a bit more tricky. I've been kind-of thinking about that too, although I don't think it'd remotely resemble debootstrap on the implementation side. A udebootstrap would

Re: debian-installer status -- 2002-08-26

2002-08-26 Thread Glenn McGrath
On Tue, 27 Aug 2002 02:36:33 +1000 Anthony Towns [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Whether there's any point to all that's another matter. You're only buying yourself a smaller rootfs, and you're only doing it by giving yourself less ways of accessing the first set of udebs you want to install. If

debian-installer status -- 2002-08-26

2002-08-25 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Second status report, about a month has passed since the last one. The todo list for d-i looked like this a month ago: - - unbreak cdebconf - - partitioner - - multiple arch support cdebconf has been unbroken. It works like a charm now, thanks a

Re: debian-installer status -- 2002-08-26

2002-08-25 Thread Junichi Uekawa
On 26 Aug 2002 00:39:06 +0200 Tollef Fog Heen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, It is difficult to reduce a library if you don't know what functions in it will be used. Since additional modules could be dropped onto install media at any time, it is very difficult to guarantee that a