On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 06:18:05PM +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 16:18, Sebastian Ley wrote: > > Am So, den 05.10.2003 schrieb Gaudenz Steinlin um 14:38: > > > > > The image target (which builds a floppy image) is not meaningfull for > > > every arch and every boot method. That i386 emulates floppys for cd > > > booting is a special case, not a general way of booting from cds. So if > > > we want to have a deb for all cases we should not only differentiate by > > > installation method (TYPE= cdrom, netboot, bootfloppy) but also by boot > > > method (cdrom, floppy, tftp, ...). > > > > Hm, I do not quite understand. We have the TYPES to roughly > > differentiate between the install flavours we want to provide. On > > different arches this may be differently implemented, this is supported > > by having pkg-lists, configurations and make targets variable for each > > architecture. If one target is not appliable for an arch at all, this > > target won't be built on that arch (denoted by deleting it from the > > Architectures: line of the corresponding package). > the main problem is, that the domains of debian-cd and the > debian-installer build system are not clearly separated. Floppy images > are built by debian-installer, cd-images in debian-cd. There are even > some targets for building cd's in debian-installer. IMO we should have > one build system for everything as a debian source package and build > some of the images (all the smaller ones) as debian binary packages. > > Goswin summarized the different TYPES quite good. The problem is, that > to build everything necessary for debian-cd you have to build the initrd > target on powerpc and the image target on i386, so you have a different > targets for different arches. The best solution for this would be a > unified build system for debian-installer and debain-cd (see above). > > > > I'd propose to just autobuild the boot-images and put them into the > > archive. The same as is done presently e.g. by martin Sjogren: > > http://people.debian.org/~sjogren/d-i/images/daily/ > This is a i386 only solution. > > > > To burden the autobuilders, archive and the mirrors with full cd sets is > > perhaps not a good idea, espacially when we want daily builds e.g. for > > unstable or testing builds. > Thus I propose to only build the smaller images (floppy, netinst, > buisnesscard) as binary packages, but have every possible image use the > same build mechanism. >
I agree. I will try to write it down for ftp-masters and buildd-people. Geert Stappers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
