Re: Avoiding use of symlinks in d-i archive tar

2017-09-07 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Bastian Blank (2017-09-07): > On Sat, Aug 05, 2017 at 03:15:51PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 30, 2017 at 04:45:38PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > > Yeah. Feel free to propose patches for that then. > > Pushed as branch "waldi/dedup-links" to debian-installer.git. > > Any more

Re: Avoiding use of symlinks in d-i archive tar

2017-09-07 Thread Bastian Blank
Moin On Sat, Aug 05, 2017 at 03:15:51PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Sun, Jul 30, 2017 at 04:45:38PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > Yeah. Feel free to propose patches for that then. > Pushed as branch "waldi/dedup-links" to debian-installer.git. Any more thoughts on this? Bastian -- Whe

Re: Avoiding use of symlinks in d-i archive tar

2017-08-05 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, Jul 30, 2017 at 04:45:38PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Yeah. Feel free to propose patches for that then. Pushed as branch "waldi/dedup-links" to debian-installer.git. > > This symlink is handled by the archive anyway. > OK; I would have thought so but I've never looked at implementati

Re: Avoiding use of symlinks in d-i archive tar

2017-07-30 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Bastian Blank (2017-07-30): > On Sun, Jul 30, 2017 at 03:54:59PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > Are we talking about these in debian-installer-images tarball? > > > > installer-amd64/20170608/images/cdrom/xen/initrd.gz > > installer-amd64/20170608/images/cdrom/xen/vmlinuz > > > > instal

Re: Avoiding use of symlinks in d-i archive tar

2017-07-30 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, Jul 30, 2017 at 03:54:59PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Bastian Blank (2017-07-30): > > Now there is exactly one other part in the archive that makes > > excessive use of symlinks: the installer. > > > > I would like to get rid of them within the installer. Most users > > don't see th

Re: Avoiding use of symlinks in d-i archive tar

2017-07-30 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, Bastian Blank (2017-07-30): > Now there is exactly one other part in the archive that makes > excessive use of symlinks: the installer. > > I would like to get rid of them within the installer. Most users > don't see them anyway, as HTTP does not provide informations about > symlinks. Are