On Thu, 2014-06-12 at 16:09 -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > > > Definitely starting to think about splitting the u-boot package into one > > > package per platform, at least for armhf... > > > > I'm not aware of your reasoning for that, but in my experience > > splitting packages up in very small pieces in not a great idea. > > Even if I don't doubt you're ability to deal with the maintenance > > overhead, you'll still hit the NEW queue alot .... > > Each additional platform adds .5+ MB to the package, and some of these > platforms may have limited space, and little or no use for platforms other > than their own...
Slightly orthogonally, it would be useful (for FEL boot) to be able to install u-boot packages on foreign architectures (so e.g. I can install the cubietruck u-boot on the x86 box at the other end of the USB cable to my truck). I suppose multiarch is the answer rather than Arch:all packages? (Especially since each u-boot will want to be built natively, at least for now...) > The size of the package will have nearly doubled since wheezy, and I wouldn't > be surprised if people want to add more platforms. I think sunxi in particular will end up contributing *lots* of new platforms. > But that's kind of outside the scope of this bug report... Yeah, sorry to add to the off-topicness. Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
