On Sun, Jul 30, 2017 at 03:54:59PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Bastian Blank <wa...@debian.org> (2017-07-30): > > Now there is exactly one other part in the archive that makes > > excessive use of symlinks: the installer. > > > > I would like to get rid of them within the installer. Most users > > don't see them anyway, as HTTP does not provide informations about > > symlinks. > > Are we talking about these in debian-installer-images tarball? > > installer-amd64/20170608/images/cdrom/xen/initrd.gz > installer-amd64/20170608/images/cdrom/xen/vmlinuz > > installer-amd64/20170608/images/netboot/debian-installer/amd64/pxelinux.cfg/default > > installer-amd64/20170608/images/netboot/gtk/debian-installer/amd64/pxelinux.cfg/default > installer-amd64/20170608/images/netboot/gtk/pxelinux.0 > installer-amd64/20170608/images/netboot/gtk/pxelinux.cfg > installer-amd64/20170608/images/netboot/pxelinux.0 > installer-amd64/20170608/images/netboot/pxelinux.cfg > installer-amd64/20170608/images/netboot/xen/initrd.gz > installer-amd64/20170608/images/netboot/xen/vmlinuz
These. Another architectures have a lot more. > installer-amd64/current > in which case I'm assuming the 'current' symlink needs to stay anyway? This symlink is handled by the archive anyway. > > They can remain in the installer debs. > Do you mean dini binaries, like debian-installer-8-netboot-amd64? Yes. Bastian -- Beam me up, Scotty! It ate my phaser!
