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Brian Elliott Finley Mobile: 630.631.6621 -----Original Message----- From: "Bernard Li" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 10:15:02 To:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <sisuite-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> Cc:"Brian Elliott Finley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [Sisuite-devel] Re: boot-standard requires Hey Erich: You can actually build it on the headnode but on the_image_. In that case you can potentially have a different arch image than that of the headnode. I think we should keep the initrd_template as noarch. Cheers, Bernard > -----Original Message----- > From: Erich Focht [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 10:07 > To: sisuite-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > Cc: Brian Elliott Finley; Bernard Li > Subject: Re: [Sisuite-devel] Re: boot-standard requires > > On Friday 02 December 2005 17:43, Brian Elliott Finley wrote: > > Benard and I are contemplating the packaging of SI 3.5+. > We're trying > > to make a decision about how the initrd_template files should be > > packaged. Currently they're part of $boot_package. > > > > Here are some options: > > > > 1) Create a new package, systemimager-initrd_template, and have > > systemimager-client depend on it. only the arch for > the client in > > question would be necessary, and this would end up > being an arch > > dependent package: > > > > systemimager-initrd_template-$version.i386.rpm (for example) > > systemimager-initrd_template-$version.ia64.rpm (for example) > > Could I build an initrd on another node than the client? For > example on the > master? In that case I might prefer to have the package as > noarch, just in > case the master is of different architecture than the client. > > systemimager-initrd_template-x86_64-$version.noarch.rpm > makes sense, too, one needs to put the %Requires: lines inside %ifarch > blocks. With multiarch setups one would have to install the additional > packages manually. > > But if you_allways_ want to build initrd on the client, an > arch dependent rpm > is fine, of course. > > Regards, > Erich > >
