Bug#247430: libc6-udeb: please add libnss_files

[Jeff Bailey <jbailey@raspberryginger.com>]

On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 01:17:05AM +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote:

> Waldi, what do you think about creating libnss-files-udeb?  IMHO, there're 
> three ways to support libnss-files:
> 
> 	(1) libc6-udeb includes libnss_files.so*.
> 	(2) make libnss-files-udeb.
> 	(3) make libnss-udeb which includes libnss-dns and libnss-files.
> 
> Colin's decision is (1).

If I understand right, this is to work around a current ugly hack in d-i
to make sure that nss is actually loaded on the install media.  In order
to avoid having to load all of libc-2.3.2.so onto a floppy, we use
mklibs to reduce it and create a custom libc.so.

The problem is mklibs has no way of knowing about the NSS libraries.

The solution proposed would be to put libnss-udeb onto the boot media
with the reduced glibc.  libc-udeb would still get used at a later stage
in the installer.

I think option (3) is probably the best.

Tks,
Jeff Bailey

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