Re: mkvmlinuz, boot-loaders and powerpc kernels.

2004-06-21 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sat, 19 Jun 2004 12:43:17 +0200, Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > One idea you had, Jens, was to write our own little script, provided > by mkvmlinuz or something else, which would then automatically be > called by kernel-package generated postinst for _all_ powerpc > cases. This would

Re: mkvmlinuz, boot-loaders and powerpc kernels.

2004-06-20 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 10:49:05AM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > Dear Sven, > > > Jens, in your discussion with Manoj about this, where would the > > generic-powerpc or whatever script reside ? > > in my proposal, 'generic' or 'official' would be a separate PowerPC > subarch that > > a) packag

Re: mkvmlinuz, boot-loaders and powerpc kernels.

2004-06-20 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Dear Sven, > Jens, in your discussion with Manoj about this, where would the > generic-powerpc or whatever script reside ? in my proposal, 'generic' or 'official' would be a separate PowerPC subarch that a) packages the kernel as an uncompressed ELF image file in /boot/vmlinux-- and nothing e

Re: mkvmlinuz, boot-loaders and powerpc kernels.

2004-06-20 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 01:26:13PM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > Hi, > > Sven Luther writes: > > > Some kind of alternative dependency on yaboot | quik | mkvmlinuz > > would take care of fullfilling the dependency, without allowing > > cruft to be installed, at least without needing yaboot and

Re: mkvmlinuz, boot-loaders and powerpc kernels.

2004-06-19 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 01:26:13PM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > Hi, > > Sven Luther writes: > > > Some kind of alternative dependency on yaboot | quik | mkvmlinuz > > would take care of fullfilling the dependency, without allowing > > cruft to be installed, at least without needing yaboot and

Re: mkvmlinuz, boot-loaders and powerpc kernels.

2004-06-19 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Sven Luther writes: > Some kind of alternative dependency on yaboot | quik | mkvmlinuz > would take care of fullfilling the dependency, without allowing > cruft to be installed, at least without needing yaboot and quik > where they are not needed, or letting mkvmlinuz pull in the binutils > d

mkvmlinuz, boot-loaders and powerpc kernels.

2004-06-19 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 11:21:56AM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > Sven Luther writes: > > If you are really going to insist in doing it this way, i would > > insist that we create at least a package containing a special > > non-modular pegasos friendly config, in chrp friendly format. > > Again,