Re: installing core udebs

[Glenn McGrath <bug1@optushome.com.au>]

David Whedon wrote:
> 
> Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 10:03:54AM +1100 wrote:
> > Arthur Korn wrote:
> > >
> > > Glenn McGrath schrieb:
> > > > 2) I want to leave the core udeb packages on the boot medium rather and
> > > > extract them as a step in the linuxrc rather than extract them into the
> > > > intird at build time, which i think makes it a lot more flexible.
> > >
> > > Hmm, so you are not going to make library reduction, or only for
> > > _all_ available udebs rather then for the set used by the
> > > floppies you are building?
> > >
> >
> > hmm, good point.
> >
> > How about still doing library reduction like we do but putting the
> > reduced libc in its own package and marking it as recommends for the
> > core udebs it was built against.
> 
> or make it Depends: particular_libc_reduced | libc
> 
> though udpkg doesn't do '|', right?
> 

hmm, im not sure, but i think this type of aproach could be the best
solution to sorting out when we move to using a full libc.

I was also wondering about the reduced libc, would it be possible to
store the excluded libc parts (stuff thats not needed by the installer),
fetch it and combine it with the reduced lib to provide the original
full libc again ?


Glenn