Hi! Well, I've been having some changes around for some time at gluck that I'd like to commit and others that I'd like to discuss with you, first let me explain the ones I think should be put in:
I have written an script that I have named tools/generate_di+k_list like the one we had already and that was named tools/generate_di, this one generates the debian-installer+kernel task list, It is an script that may have to be completely rewritten as the kernels packages continue to change, but what I tried with it was to generate a debian-installer+kernel task that was multiarch and that had the best kernel for each of the arches we are currently building bootable cds for. So, what I'm proposing to commit is: this generate_di+k script, the task it generates (debian-installer+kernel), an upgraded task file for debian-installer and also the post-boot-alpha script that is currently broken for sarge (tries to use disks-alpha from woody, Vorlon, can you please have a look at this and confirm mine is ok?) I'm putting all this at http://people.debian.org/~manty for you to have a look at them. Now, about what I wanted to discuss, it is mainly relative to dialing with powerpc yaboot, we have not yet commited the boot-powerpc script as it is not yet finished, but Thorsten Sauter is working on it and when we have it ready it will be commited, however there are some things I'd like to know your opinion on... Right now our debian-cd/data/yaboot/ directory looks like this: boot.msg ofboot.b potato-yaboot.conf yaboot.conf where the boot.msg and yaboot.conf files are from woody, this two files need to be changed for sarge, so either we move the yaboot dir to debian-cd/data/$CODENAME and put there the files for each release without any prefix, or we prefix woody scripts and the new sarge ones with $CODENAME, I really think that moving the yaboot dir is the best we can do, anyway, either this solutions should mean changes in potato and woody powerpc boot scripts. The boot script we have now for sarge and which is still missing some little things, currently downloads this yaboot related files from tsauter's page at people.debian.org, but I really think we should place them in debian-cd, like it was done before. BTW it seems like there is a bug, in woody boot-powerpc scripts boot.msg is copied like it is, withoug doing a s/CODENAME/$CODENAME so you can read in the cd: Welcome to Debian GNU/Linux PowerPC (CODENAME) To fix this either we replace the CODENAME with "Woody" in woody's boot.msg or we add the sed line to replace it in boot-powerpc. Well, I guess this is all, I'm waiting for your comments on all this. Right now we are building bootable i386 and alpha cds, with powerpc almost ready and ia64 on the way, however there are other 7 arches, I think not all of them cd-bootable anyway, of which I don't have any news relating sarge cds :-( Regards... -- Manty/BestiaTester -> http://manty.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
