Re: Questions about tasks and profiles for the debian-cd program (Was: slink_cd v 0.98
On Wed, 06 Jan 1999 13:09:10 +0100, Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@debian.org> said:
> I must confess I worked more on internal consistency (I developed
> the tool to check automatically that the dependencies are met) than
> on choices such as "Should we include twm or not"? which are a good
> way to start a flame-war if I ask the question on debian-devel.
Have you seen the 'popularity-contest' package? It might be
interesting. See the docs in the package.
However, on debian-testing, some have claimed problems, I thought, in
the package set w.r.t. consistency?
>> Has any work been done on equivalent package selections for
>> non-i386 architectures?
> In theory, they should work for every architecture (see the present
> discussion on debian-devel, where maintainers of other ports scream
> loudly when it is suggested to release slink only for the
> i386). Because Debian is one distribution, running the same on
> several architectures.
> But in practice, it seems, according to the m68k maintainer, that
> there is a drift, and the current boot-floppies package does not
> provide anything to deal with it. There are several possible
> solutions but no implementation. Ideas welcome. (Warning: there are
> traps underneath.)
Use m4 in the files to deal with the drive. Try your hardest to test
the package selections with different tools.
For instance, boot-floppies/scripts/rescue/syslinux.cfg uses m4 to
conditionally deal with different situations.
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.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
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