On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 01:37:18AM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 17:28:38 -0500 > Jeff Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On dim, 2005-11-13 at 20:28 +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > > > On Sunday 13 November 2005 08:16, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > That is less than 6MB of stuff, hardly "heavy". A single kernel > > > > flavour is double that for example. > > > > > > That is exactly why we include only one kernel image on i386 > > > netinst CD images. > > > If we'd follow the suggestion to support both yaird and > > > initramfs-tools we'd have to include both perl and python in base > > > installations. This is 8MB (package size; installed size is a lot > > > larger) in total and IMO not something to be happy about, and not > > > only from a d-i point of view. > > > > > waldi: Why is mklibs-copy needed? > > > > In Ubuntu we're not using mklibs, we use ldd and sed instead. If this > > behaviour can be restored, we can drop the python dep. > > If I understand it correctly, ldd only correctly resolves libraries > linked with glibc, and yaird includes a more generic tool - documented > here: http://www.xs4all.nl/~ekonijn/yaird/yaird.html#shlibs > > I am aware that Debian mandates glibc linking, but perhaps the user > choose to include local non-glibc binaries. I believe we should be kind > enough to support that. > > Would it perhaps make sense to provide the yaird "findlibs" binary in a > separate package for initramfs-tools to also use?
But be aware that findlibs does not support everything: libraries have so much freedom that you can't build a completely generic solution. Findlibs works with klibc executables, lidd with dietlibc and glibc. Regards, Erik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
