On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 03:05:47PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > On Saturday 19 November 2005 05:05, Steve Langasek wrote: > > What's holding up the switch to dhcp3-client-udeb? Andrew Pollock did > > a lot of work earlier this year to get it ready for d-i use. Is there > > still something missing, or is it just a question of trying it out? > The only issue AFAIK is size. > For i386 Package Installed > dhcp-client-udeb 40 132 > dhcp3-client-udeb 145 396 > For sparc Package Installed > dhcp-client-udeb 43 176 > dhcp3-client-udeb 150 608 > For ia64 Package Installed > dhcp-client-udeb 70 352 > dhcp3-client-udeb 268 1356 > As you can see a factor 3-4 larger. This is especially bad for floppy > based installation. Granted, though it seems that at least two of the architectures you quoted don't support floppy installs in etch? :) But ok, that answers my question, the udeb is still too big. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
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