On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 12:01:01PM +0200, 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...
If they need to be unpacked on the root filesystem, then installing them unpacked is the way to go. Doing it in the postinst means the package manager loses track of the files, which is a serious issue. When I said I prefer a tarball, what I meant is that the only thing that gets installed would be a tarball, and anything that needed the files inside when unpack it when necessary. Of course there maybe reasons you need to install these files unpacked - I don't know much about how initrd template is used. -- dann frazier ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
