Re: Debian-installer, older hardware, boot loaders, miboot & amiboot & ..

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 03:38:31PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 04:33:04PM +0200, Jeremie Koenig wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 11:55:03AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> > > Jeremie Koenig wrote:
> > > > The plan was to request a sarge-ignore tag on the "d-i build-depends on
> > > > miboot, which is in contrib", and try to find a better solution for next
> > > > releases.
> > > 
> > > This is the first I've heard of this. Has the sarge-ignore status of the
> > > GFDL docs really created such a slippery slope? I doubt it.
> > 
> > I've posted my intentions here and noone seemed to object.
> 
> I objected! At least if it's a real build-depends, in which case it will
> break d-i autobuilds.

I have had an idea about that. What about having debian-installer in
main, as we do now, well at least once joeyh does a new upload, which
seems to be waiting your ok, and have everything built, except the
miboot boot floppies. Then we clone this (or part thereof) in contrib,
once miboot is contrib ready, that is, and have it build the contrib
part of debian-installer, hopefully with just a single keyword switch or
something.

This will hardly make debian-installer contrib, as the contrib parts are
disabled for the debian/main build, but so we don't disseminate the
source tree all over the place.

Friendly,

Sven Luther