Bug#112090: PROPOSAL]: support reduced footprint debs at build time

2001-09-12 Thread David Kimdon
Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 09:30:15PM -0400 wrote: > David Kimdon wrote: > > Sorry, no. Take for example pump-udeb. It has a maintainer, all is > > distributed, the only difference is where it gets built. > > > > The parts of debian-installer that have no life outside of > > debian-installer may just l

Bug#112090: PROPOSAL]: support reduced footprint debs at build time

2001-09-12 Thread David Kimdon
Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 09:06:12PM -0400 wrote: > David Kimdon wrote: > > boot-floppies - when we are creating the _install_ root filesystem we > > apt-get a bunch of binary packages, extract them into a temporary > > area, remove stuff we don't want, do library reduction etc.. Some of > > the packag

Bug#112090: PROPOSAL]: support reduced footprint debs at build time

2001-09-12 Thread Joey Hess
David Kimdon wrote: > Sorry, no. Take for example pump-udeb. It has a maintainer, all is > distributed, the only difference is where it gets built. > > The parts of debian-installer that have no life outside of > debian-installer may just live as source packages, and not be built, > much like pcm

Bug#112090: PROPOSAL]: support reduced footprint debs at build time

2001-09-12 Thread David Kimdon
Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 01:39:50AM +0100 wrote: > On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 04:01:20PM -0700, David Kimdon wrote: > > Both systems grab source pacakages during the build, rather than > > binaries. embedded is put into DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS, and the packages > > are compiled small, fit for boot-floppies or

Bug#112090: PROPOSAL]: support reduced footprint debs at build time

2001-09-12 Thread Joey Hess
David Kimdon wrote: > boot-floppies - when we are creating the _install_ root filesystem we > apt-get a bunch of binary packages, extract them into a temporary > area, remove stuff we don't want, do library reduction etc.. Some of > the packages that we grab are special *-bf packages, smaller vers

Bug#112090: PROPOSAL]: support reduced footprint debs at build time

2001-09-12 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 04:01:20PM -0700, David Kimdon wrote: > Both systems grab source pacakages during the build, rather than > binaries. embedded is put into DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS, and the packages > are compiled small, fit for boot-floppies or debian-installer. We > then take those generated bin

Bug#112090: PROPOSAL]: support reduced footprint debs at build time

2001-09-12 Thread David Kimdon
> Euhm, you serious expect the installer to be able to compile itself > during an install? > > Wichert. > umm, no, looks like I said something confusing. I'm talking about the installer's build system, not the actual install. A bit more elaboration: Currently : boot-floppies - when we are cre

Bug#112090: PROPOSAL]: support reduced footprint debs at build time

2001-09-12 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously David Kimdon wrote: > The purpose of this change is to give Debian a more elegant way of > handling reduced footprint debs. Rather than including > special-purpose binaries in the archive (the status quo), I suggest we > support hooks in source packages that produce size optimized vers

Bug#112090: [PROPOSAL]: support reduced footprint debs at build time

2001-09-12 Thread David Kimdon
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.5.5.0 Severity: wishlist Hi, The purpose of this change is to give Debian a more elegant way of handling reduced footprint debs. Rather than including special-purpose binaries in the archive (the status quo), I suggest we support hooks in source packages that p

Re: Bug#111025: debian-policy: typo in chapter 9: ldconfig and pre/post scripts

2001-09-12 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 05:16:27PM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: > On Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 06:55:56PM -0400, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > > postrm > > -- > > > > An installed shared lib has been removed from the system just before > > "postrm remove" is run. This is the proper time to cal

[AMENDMENT 2001-09-10] correcting ldconfig policy in Chapter 9

2001-09-12 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hello, On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 12:48:04AM -0500, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report > #111025: [AMENDMENT 2001-09-10] correcting ldconfig policy in Chapter 9, > which was filed against the debian-policy package. > > It has been marked a