Re: installing core udebs

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

David Whedon wrote:
> 
>
> I don't see that we gain much by that.  To do it we'd need need some binutils,
> probably objcopy, ar, objdump.  We'd not be saving much network traffic (that is
> the good thing, right?) perhaps a megabyte and adding to the complexity.
> 
> How about this plan, this keeps it fairly simple.  We have 2 reduced libc
> versions. 1 version will actually exists in a lot of forms because it will be
> generated for the specific requirements of a given install medium.  The second
> version will include all the symbols needed for _every_ available udeb.
> 
> Remeber that the installer isn't supposed to be alive for very long.  Once the
> network is up we'll be calling debootstrap fairly soon.
> 

Yea, that sounds like a good plan.

Glenn