[Resend: change subject line to meet with current topic] [Add a few people ever expressed interest in GNU/screen for d-i work]
On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 7:50 AM, Martin Michlmayr <t...@cyrius.com> wrote: > * Roger Shimizu <rogershim...@gmail.com> [2016-04-12 00:48]: >> I was about to write a list on pros and cons, but I only find pros, >> with some reasons/explanation. >> >> - Main purpose is to get ready for screen support, which surely cannot >> fit into qnap's image. > > Sorry for being unclear: I have no objections to introducing the -qnap > or -tiny image. I can see why this makes sense. > > But you also merge the orion5x and kirkwood images into marvell images > and I see a number of downsides with that (and no obvious advantages). > > Can you leave orion5x and kirkwood alone and introduce an > orion5x-qnap, without converting everything to marvell, or do you see > any advantages of combining orion5x and kirkwood into marvell? (If > there are advantages, please let me know.) Thanks for your feedback! I have a new idea which don't need to touch current orion5x/kirkwood anymore. It introduces two new targets: - netboot-screen, which add screen-udeb to previous netboot target - network-screen, which add screen-udeb to previous network-console target - previous netboot and network-console target is kept as it is So qnap images are only removed from armel/orion5x/network-screen.cfg, due to size issue. But it still exists in armel/orion5x/network-console.cfg. I have push the change to branch "netboot-screen" [5]. I don't have experience other than i386/amd64/armel, so for other ARCHs, I need other's help review and test. I plan to - collect feedback of code review before screen-udeb [1] and its dependency [2] get released. Both of the package are tagged as "pending", so I expect them to be released within 2-4 weeks. - modify the change [5] based on review feedback, and push it to master so we can check daily builds are fine for all ARCHs - ask users of all ARCHs related to check whether the GNU/screen is working well under d-i environment. Maybe need to add a wiki to track things efficiently. What do you think of my plan? Any suggestion is appreciated. Thank you! [1] https://bugs.debian.org/819988 [2] https://bugs.debian.org/819397 [5] https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/d-i/debian-installer.git/commit/?h=netboot-screen&id=302f5f Cheers, -- Roger Shimizu, GMT +9 Tokyo PGP/GPG: 17B3ACB1
