[ Added cc: to debian-powerpc for help... ] On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 08:44:15AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: >On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 22:46 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 03:45:31PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> >Steve McIntyre <st...@einval.com> writes: >> >> >> >> The netinsts are meant to have the base system, yes. I can't see >> >> anything obvious myself that we can drop. Maybe time to give up on >> >> powerpc on that image, like we've done on the m-a DVD. Shame, but >> >> there's only so much stuff we can accommodate here. Anybody else have >> >> an opinion here? Frans/Joey? >> > >> >Just a crcy idea: Could the plain i386 kernel be droped instead? That >> >would loose support for i486 and i586 cpus on the m-a CD. But is that >> >needed there? >> >> That's an option, yes. We could strip out the kernels for < 686 >> systems here, but I'd like to keep them on if at all possible to make >> this image as universally useful as possible. I'd be more convinced to >> simply drop powerpc instead, like we already did for the multi-arch >> DVD. > >Sounds reasonable to me, but then I'm not a powerpc user... > >Does the CD image need powerpc, powerpc-smp and powerpc64 kernels? >Perhaps one of powerpc and powerpc-smp could be dropped (presuming that >the smp variant still works on a UP system dropping the UP could well be >reasonable).
No idea, to be honest. Powerpc folks - thoughts? >Do you have any idea where perl (not perl-base) comes from? python (not >python-minimal) doesn't seem to be in the base system but is on the CD >as well. Similarly nothing seems to pull in binutils or doc-linux-text >deliberately. (I'm picking on these packages because they are the >largest components under pool/main/*) Hmmm. At the very least, debconf needs perl-base. linux-base then pulls in the main perl package later (via libapt-pkg-perl). As for python, I'm not seeing that on the current m-a netinst CD. We then have linux-headers-$foo -> gcc-4.3 -> binutils. I don't see doc-linux-text in the log either. (Looking at the log files make_disc_tree.log and sort_deps.i386.log for this info...) -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com "Further comment on how I feel about IBM will appear once I've worked out whether they're being malicious or incompetent. Capital letters are forecast." Matthew Garrett, http://www.livejournal.com/users/mjg59/30675.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100708000935.gg4...@einval.com
