RE: Which section should a TFTP bootstrap loader be put in?
On Fri, 5 Feb 1999, Nick Holgate wrote:
>
>
> > 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
> >
>
> Wouldn't the name 'boot-m68k' give the impression that the package contained
> more than a single bootstrap method for one sub architecture? I had
> previously chosen the name 'tftplilo' as that is the name of the bootstrap
> loader. You seem to agree that the package should be for all architectures,
> but any suggestion as to which section?
If it's only one subarch, incorporate that into the name somehow.
m68k-vme-tftpboot
maybe?
section: admin, i'd think, but priority extra. The other choice would be
net.
Jules
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