Re: Avoiding use of symlinks in d-i archive tar
On Sun, Jul 30, 2017 at 03:54:59PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org> (2017-07-30):
> > Now there is exactly one other part in the archive that makes
> > excessive use of symlinks: the installer.
> >
> > I would like to get rid of them within the installer. Most users
> > don't see them anyway, as HTTP does not provide informations about
> > symlinks.
>
> Are we talking about these in debian-installer-images tarball?
>
> installer-amd64/20170608/images/cdrom/xen/initrd.gz
> installer-amd64/20170608/images/cdrom/xen/vmlinuz
> installer-amd64/20170608/images/netboot/debian-installer/amd64/pxelinux.cfg/default
> installer-amd64/20170608/images/netboot/gtk/debian-installer/amd64/pxelinux.cfg/default
> installer-amd64/20170608/images/netboot/gtk/pxelinux.0
> installer-amd64/20170608/images/netboot/gtk/pxelinux.cfg
> installer-amd64/20170608/images/netboot/pxelinux.0
> installer-amd64/20170608/images/netboot/pxelinux.cfg
> installer-amd64/20170608/images/netboot/xen/initrd.gz
> installer-amd64/20170608/images/netboot/xen/vmlinuz
These. Another architectures have a lot more.
> installer-amd64/current
> in which case I'm assuming the 'current' symlink needs to stay anyway?
This symlink is handled by the archive anyway.
> > They can remain in the installer debs.
> Do you mean dini binaries, like debian-installer-8-netboot-amd64?
Yes.
Bastian
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