On Friday 12 October 2007, dann frazier wrote: > On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 05:23:35PM -0400, Geoffroy Vall?e wrote: > > Hi Dann, > > > > The problem is that initrd-template is a arch independent package but > > does include ELF binaries. The package must be (i think) arch independent > > (it may be used on other architectures to boot up x86_64 clients) > > That's why the current systemimager-boot-<arch>-standard are all > arch-independent packages. > > > so we need a way to > > include in a proper manner the different binaries. As i said in my > > previous email, a solution seems to zip the different binaries (something > > i saw for other Debian packages providing binary blogs - such as > > firmware). > > Personally I'd prefer a tarball to a bunch of scattered binaries, but > mostly for cosmetic reasons. I don't know of any reason either > approach would be illegal (unless of course some of them are suid or > device files, since they would obviously have security ramifications).
I actually changed my patch to do that (pretty simple patch, Andrea did a good job integrating Debian stuff into trunk). :-) If we all agree this is the way to good, i will send a patch to the community on Monday or so. It can be a good base to continue to discuss about the problem. Dann, thanks again for your valuable feedback. -- Geoff ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ sisuite-devel mailing list sisuite-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-devel
