>
> This "hack" will be fixed as boot-floppies is deprecated with the post
> woody release. What's the point of putting it into policy?
Only reason is that this is something we obviously needed to do in the
past, so it is reasonable to expect the need in the future. Better to have
a clean way o
Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 02:39:46PM +0200 wrote:
> Previously Richard Braakman wrote:
> > - Specific compiler flags (-Os?)
>
> That one would make sense
>
> > - Turning off compile-time options for rarely used features
>
> That's going to be highly controversial
FWIW that is one thing that e2fs
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
&g
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 reduct
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
> 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
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
> This is half correct :) I suggest to just refer to dpkg-architecture(1), as
> the technical details may change. In particular, you should not use the
> variables without initializing them
>
> DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE := $(shell dpkg-architecture -qDEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE)
okay.
>
> etc
>
> In general
Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 02:00:29AM -0500 wrote:
> * David Kimdon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010910 01:38]:
> > This patch basically says that packages should support
> > cross-compilation. Many packages can already be cross compiled so
>
> Perhaps to the base package, but for
Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.5.5.0
Severity: wishlist
I'd like to make Debian more friendly to porters and embedded systems.
This patch basically says that packages should support
cross-compilation. Many packages can already be cross compiled so
this is more documenting current practice rath
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