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Re: Time to rewrite dpkg



On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 05:24:08AM -0700, Aaron Van Couwenberghe wrote:
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> 	Notably, I'm going to be writing it in C++. This will add about 270k
> to the boot disks' root image, but as the floppy install methods are for the
> most part phasing out under the shadow of easier methods, I'm not going to
> lose any sleep over this. libstdc++ can be minimized for static linkage
> anyway.

dpkg is not on the boot disks' root image (thanks god). It's on the base
system, with dselect, apt and, of course, libstdc++. You won't have to add 
it. (Let's call that luck). :-)

OTOH, your opinion that adding 200k to the boot disks' root image, thus
breaking the "rescue" floppy, doesn't matter because the floppy install
methods are phasing out is just plainly wrong.  Currently we have three
ways of booting the installation system: bootable CDs (requires a modern
BIOS), floppy disk and bootp (requires a netword card with the proper
ROM, and a bootp+tftp server on the same network). Our bootable CDs use a
floppy image for booting, the same "resc1440.bin" floppy image that's
used on a floppy based installation.  That means two of our three methods
(and I dare to say the third one is used on <5% of Debian installations)
use the same "rescue" floppy disk. I won't say that's "pashing out". ;-)

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Enrique Zanardi					   ezanardi@ull.es


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