Re: Time to rewrite dpkg
Enrique Zanardi <ezanardi@ull.es> writes:
> On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 05:24:08AM -0700, Aaron Van Couwenberghe wrote:
> [...]
> > 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". ;-)
Why would this add 200k to the root disk? We don't have dpkg
on the root disk, it's in the base image.
Steve
dunham@cse.msu.edu
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