Geoffroy VALLEE wrote: > On Saturday 13 October 2007, Andrea Righi wrote: >> Geoffroy VALLEE wrote: >>> 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. >> I prefer the tarball solution too. I quickly tried to implement this >> solution, including only a tarball in systemimager-initrd_template package >> and untarring it with a .postinst script (+ create the required device >> files). >> >> The problem I found was that during the uninstall I wasn't able to keep >> track of the untarred files and only the tarball was removed... >> >> -Andrea > > You have to write a script that cleans up the system and execute it at > package > removal time. > > Also note that the "rule" file deals with the initrd-template in the > binary-arch section, which is the section for arch dependent stuff. We may > want to move that to binary-indep (even if it creates few issues)to keep > things clean. I have a patch for that if you want.
Very good. Waiting for your patch. -Andrea ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
