On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 06:41:08PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 11:57:52AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: > > On Wednesday, August 11, 2004, at 05:45 AM, Sven Luther wrote: > > >On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 11:25:48AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > >># We'd like to use miboot, but it isn't in the archive yet ... > > >>#miboot -c ./tmp/powerpc-small_floppy_boot/miboot.conf > > >># ... so instead we do some grungy HFS hacking. > > >> > > >>I wonder who did that modification, and i probably pulled it in when > > >>upgrading :/ > > > > > >Ah, it is fixed, Colin Watson did this :/ > > Of course, and I told you about it at the time, but you apparently > rarely remember anything that anybody else says. > > I made those changes because the package *did not autobuild* without > them, which isn't acceptable.
Yeah, sure i remember now. I should have done the change immediately though. Maybe we would need some way to differentiate between an official build in d-i in sarge, and the daily builds or something. That said, i wonder what this brings over simply disabling the miboot builds. > > >I wonder if we should not do a miboot upload to non-free and be gone > > >with it. This would mean a debian-installer-non-free or something > > >such. > > This sounds like a pretty awkward time to make such changes, but > whatever. Why ? There is no other way to do this, since building against the miboot package is never going to happen as things go. > I certainly think that the debian-installer images should come with > instructions on how to make the floppy images bootable with miboot. I > left the miboot.conf lying around rather than deleting it for pretty > much that reason, but I lacked the expertise to go further. Maybe even a full script or something such ? Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
