Re: [D-I] Supporting 2.6.14 kernels in base-installer
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On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 17:28:38 -0500
Jeff Bailey <jbailey@ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On dim, 2005-11-13 at 20:28 +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
> > On Sunday 13 November 2005 08:16, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > That is less than 6MB of stuff, hardly "heavy". A single kernel
> > > flavour is double that for example.
> >
> > That is exactly why we include only one kernel image on i386
> > netinst CD images.
> > If we'd follow the suggestion to support both yaird and
> > initramfs-tools we'd have to include both perl and python in base
> > installations. This is 8MB (package size; installed size is a lot
> > larger) in total and IMO not something to be happy about, and not
> > only from a d-i point of view.
>
> > waldi: Why is mklibs-copy needed?
>
> In Ubuntu we're not using mklibs, we use ldd and sed instead. If this
> behaviour can be restored, we can drop the python dep.
If I understand it correctly, ldd only correctly resolves libraries
linked with glibc, and yaird includes a more generic tool - documented
here: http://www.xs4all.nl/~ekonijn/yaird/yaird.html#shlibs
I am aware that Debian mandates glibc linking, but perhaps the user
choose to include local non-glibc binaries. I believe we should be kind
enough to support that.
Would it perhaps make sense to provide the yaird "findlibs" binary in a
separate package for initramfs-tools to also use?
(and no: findlibs do _not_ depend on perl as yaird is ;-) )
- Jonas
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