Re: [D-I] Supporting 2.6.14 kernels in base-installer

[Jurij Smakov <jurij@wooyd.org>]

On Sat, 12 Nov 2005, Frans Pop wrote:

[..]
> The following packages are currently pulled in as dependencies by the
> 2.6.14 kernel:
> - yaird
> - perl (3.3 MB)
> - perl-modules (2.2 MB)
> - libhtml-template-perl
> - libparse-recdescent-perl
> These requirements look quite heavy to me and may be a problem for the
> netinst.
>
> If we would install initramfs-tools, we would need:
> - busybox
> - klibc-utils
> - mklibs-copy
> - udev

Note that mklib-copy currently depends on python2.4-minimal, with 
installed-size of 2072 kB.

> This looks a lot lighter, but the dependency on udev probably means some
> manipulation of /target/dev will be required. Using udev in d-i itself
> may make that easier.

Best regards,

Jurij Smakov                                        jurij@wooyd.org
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