Re: Which section should a TFTP bootstrap loader be put in?

[Jules Bean <jmlb2@hermes.cam.ac.uk>]

On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, Nick Holgate wrote:

> 
> Can anybody give me some advice on which architecture and section to install
> a package?
> 
> The package is a TFTP bootstrap loader for m68k/VME kernels, even though the
> it is specific for booting m68k/VME machines the binaries and configuration
> files for the package need to be installed on the TFTP server side, so they
> can be transferred to the booting client for execution, my guess is that it
> could be included for all architectures. The binaries will also be part of
> the m68k/VME install kit built by the boot-floppies package so my initial
> thought was to put it into the base section, but there again it will only be
> needed to build boot-floppies for m68k so I'm not sure. Any ideas?
> 

Package up a boot-m68k package, and make it architecture: any. (or even,
architecture:all)

We'll be doing something similar for debian-sparc shortly.

Jules


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