To: Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com> Subject: Re: new installer X-Operating-System: Debian GNU/Linux 2.6.0-test5-bktree-2 X-Editor: VIM - Vi IMproved 6.2 X-MailServer: Exim 4.22 On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 01:43:00PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Dan Weber] > > I think I need to review the steps on how he makes a bootfloppy like > > that. Since I want to be able to understand it externally before I > > reimplement in the DI-2.6. > > I suspect your approach in making d-i handle 2.6 kernels is not the > best nor the most efficient way. Duplicating the d-i CVS, and trying > to fork the packages, instead of supplying patches to the current d-i > CVS, seem like a inefficient approach. > > I believe you should consider adding hooks and generic solutions to > the official d-i instead of trying to replicate what is being done in > the official d-i. > > I told you this on IRC earlier, but just wanted to repeat it here on > the mailing list, to make sure you take it into account. Ok after actually replicating the cvs. I found that it became too hard to keep up with the one in current use. So this idea maybe a good one, However Im not sure if there is a way to use a revision system for patches. Revision systems help a lot. Dan Weber
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