Re: 2.6.12 is in testing

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 10:26:55AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 03:56:07PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > We would only package those needed for the installer, we can list those in the
> > .udebs actually, there should be around a 100 or so. multiplied by around 50
> > flavours (maybe less) this brings us around 5000 packages.
> > 
> > Well, we may have multiple flavours per arch, but there will definitively not
> > be in the 1000 modules involved here.
> 
> Well doing a list of the modules in the current linux-image-2.6.12 on
> i386, and then deleting from the list sound, and netfilter and anything
> else obviously not needed and probably a few things that would be
> needed, I got down to just under 400 modules.  Probably most
> architectures would have less.  how one would automate doing such a
> filter I am not sure.

Ok.

> > Could be, on the other side, slower arches probably have less modules, and
> > this should be less of a problem.
> 
> Well unless you have a 386/486 which is still pretty slow. :)

But they could benefit from some sort of dpkg-accelerator in general though.

Friendly,

Sven Luther