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Re: Avoiding use of symlinks in d-i archive tar



Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org> (2017-07-30):
> On Sun, Jul 30, 2017 at 03:54:59PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> > 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.

Yeah. Feel free to propose patches for that then.

> >   installer-amd64/current
> > in which case I'm assuming the 'current' symlink needs to stay anyway?
> 
> This symlink is handled by the archive anyway.

OK; I would have thought so but I've never looked at implementation details.

> > Do you mean dini binaries, like debian-installer-8-netboot-amd64?
> 
> Yes.

OK.


KiBi.

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