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Re: [RFR] Restructuring of kernel selection in base-installer



Op 20-07-2007 om 08:19 schreef Frans Pop:
> 
> The old mechanism to set default kernels in templates-arch per kernel
> major version has IMO become completely redundant. In practice it was no
> longer being used at all and we have an excellent and much more flexible
> kernel selection mechanism that replaced it. The defaults we still have
> left (kernel-image and linux-image) are even invalid.
> So basically I have just dropped these templates and renamed the template
> we currently use for the actual selection, b-i/kernel/which-kernel, to
> base-installer/kernel/image.
> If someone thinks the dropped templates would still be usefull, they could
> still be added back in the new structure quite easily.

That reminds me of bug #339876,
which wishes to split kernel-install from base-install.

So the thing that worries me,
is will the above change embed kernel-installer deeper into base-installer?


Cheers
Geert Stappers



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