Re: Kernel packages in the installer
Hi Jan,
On 19:33, Jan Henke wrote:
> I have been talking with Christoph on IRC about the kernel installation
> story. Right now there are several kernel packages in the archive. The
> installer currently installs kfreebsd-image-$KERNEL_MAJOR-$ARCH
In expert mode it asks me to pick from a list. On i386 it is sensible
that I can choose from 486 or 686.
On amd64 the choice is redundant; it lists the binary package *and*
a metapackage for that major version, but either choice resolves to the
same thing.
> are also the kfreebsd-image-{amd64, 686, 486} packages, which just
> depend on the respective major version image package.
Yes, such as https://packages.debian.org/sid/kfreebsd-image-amd64
I guess the only reason we're not using those already, is that the
last release had a choice of two major kernel versions. For jessie
we have only one major kernel version, so I think it makes sense.
> So I propose to change the Debian installer to install the version
> agnostic (wonderful word, thanks Christoph) meta-package and let the
> dependency resolution pull in the correct kernel image. How is the
> general feeling about this?
I see the advantage of this, and can't think of a reason why not. Let's
try to do this after d-i Beta 2 has happened and kfreebsd 10.1 lands in
sid.
Regards,
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Steven Chamberlain
steven@pyro.eu.org
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