Re: [RFC] Patch to disable GTK in installer images
On Saturday 05 December 2009, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> Hello folks,
> It took much longer then I expected but I finally had time to look at
> it. Please look at the attached patch and see if you can spot any
> problem with.
There are still at least two problems.
> +++ b/installer/build/config/i386/cdrom-xen.cfg
> @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
> KERNELVERSION = $(BASEVERSION)-686-bigmem
> -TYPE=cdrom/gtk
> -include config/i386/cdrom/gtk.cfg
> +TYPE=cdrom/isolinux
> +include config/i386/cdrom.cfg
Last line should probably be:
+include config/i386/cdrom/isolinux.cfg
And i386 should FTBFS because i386/cdrom/isolinux.cfg still has a line
EXTRATARGETS = build_cdrom_gtk
and that target no longer exists.
> I tested it in amd64 only. If someone can test it in another arches
> (i386 and powerpc) it would be nice.
You could easily test i386 yourself. Setting up a sid/i386 chroot in which
you can build D-I on your amd64 machine is trivial.
In an earlier mail you wrote:
> I removed then since it will be a patch added for a very small perid
> of time and then a revert will be done. In fact I'll keep it reverted
> here to push after we believe installer for A1 is done.
But the changelog says:
+ * Disable GTK+ based images due #557387. This ought to be reverted
+ once GTK+ DFB backend is fixed.
There is a significant chance that fixing the backend will take more than
a "very small period", so I still feel that disabling (commenting) things
would be a lot better than removing them.
Besides that you're being inconsistent as you do have:
> +++ b/installer/build/config/i386/cdrom.cfg
> @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
> # el-torito is too large at the moment, so is disabled.
> -FLAVOUR_SUPPORTED = isolinux gtk #el-torito
> +FLAVOUR_SUPPORTED = isolinux #gtk #el-torito
Cheers,
FJP
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