Re: Proposed build system
On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 06:18:05PM +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 16:18, Sebastian Ley wrote:
> > Am So, den 05.10.2003 schrieb Gaudenz Steinlin um 14:38:
> >
> > > The image target (which builds a floppy image) is not meaningfull for
> > > every arch and every boot method. That i386 emulates floppys for cd
> > > booting is a special case, not a general way of booting from cds. So if
> > > we want to have a deb for all cases we should not only differentiate by
> > > installation method (TYPE= cdrom, netboot, bootfloppy) but also by boot
> > > method (cdrom, floppy, tftp, ...).
> >
> > Hm, I do not quite understand. We have the TYPES to roughly
> > differentiate between the install flavours we want to provide. On
> > different arches this may be differently implemented, this is supported
> > by having pkg-lists, configurations and make targets variable for each
> > architecture. If one target is not appliable for an arch at all, this
> > target won't be built on that arch (denoted by deleting it from the
> > Architectures: line of the corresponding package).
> the main problem is, that the domains of debian-cd and the
> debian-installer build system are not clearly separated. Floppy images
> are built by debian-installer, cd-images in debian-cd. There are even
> some targets for building cd's in debian-installer. IMO we should have
> one build system for everything as a debian source package and build
> some of the images (all the smaller ones) as debian binary packages.
>
> Goswin summarized the different TYPES quite good. The problem is, that
> to build everything necessary for debian-cd you have to build the initrd
> target on powerpc and the image target on i386, so you have a different
> targets for different arches. The best solution for this would be a
> unified build system for debian-installer and debain-cd (see above).
> >
> > I'd propose to just autobuild the boot-images and put them into the
> > archive. The same as is done presently e.g. by martin Sjogren:
> > http://people.debian.org/~sjogren/d-i/images/daily/
> This is a i386 only solution.
> >
> > To burden the autobuilders, archive and the mirrors with full cd sets is
> > perhaps not a good idea, espacially when we want daily builds e.g. for
> > unstable or testing builds.
> Thus I propose to only build the smaller images (floppy, netinst,
> buisnesscard) as binary packages, but have every possible image use the
> same build mechanism.
>
I agree. I will try to write it down for ftp-masters and buildd-people.
Geert Stappers
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