Re: Multi-arch netinst getting too big

2010-07-09 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 09 July 2010, Ian Campbell wrote: > In light of Frans' concern perhaps consider dropping 686 instead of 486? > I think that will result in 686-bigmem being installed on systems which > would have previously got 686 (I can confirm if necessary). This isn't > necessarily a bad thing -- it e

Re: Multi-arch netinst getting too big

2010-07-09 Thread Ian Campbell
On Fri, 2010-07-09 at 14:28 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > What I've done for now is drop the -486 kernel flavour from the m-a > netinst. From a test build I've just done, everything fits on a single > CD again, even with firmware included. If people want to install from > a netinst onto a pre-686

Re: Multi-arch netinst getting too big

2010-07-09 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 09 July 2010, Steve McIntyre wrote: > True. Any better suggestions? No. Not without doing substantial work on this, which I've already indicated I'm not going to do this release. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-cd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: Multi-arch netinst getting too big

2010-07-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Fri, Jul 09, 2010 at 04:11:06PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: >On Friday 09 July 2010, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> What I've done for now is drop the -486 kernel flavour from the m-a >> netinst. From a test build I've just done, everything fits on a single >> CD again, even with firmware included. If peo

Re: Multi-arch netinst getting too big

2010-07-09 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 09 July 2010, Steve McIntyre wrote: > What I've done for now is drop the -486 kernel flavour from the m-a > netinst. From a test build I've just done, everything fits on a single > CD again, even with firmware included. If people want to install from > a netinst onto a pre-686 machine the

Re: Multi-arch netinst getting too big

2010-07-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
What I've done for now is drop the -486 kernel flavour from the m-a netinst. From a test build I've just done, everything fits on a single CD again, even with firmware included. If people want to install from a netinst onto a pre-686 machine then they'll need to use the separate i386 netinst instea

Re: Multi-arch netinst getting too big

2010-07-09 Thread Ian Campbell
On Fri, 2010-07-09 at 12:50 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 03:35:23PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > >On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 15:23 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >> On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 10:00:38AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > >> >I don't think libuuid-perl really needs perl

Re: [PATCH] Do not set VARIANTS in CONF.sh by default

2010-07-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Fri, Jul 09, 2010 at 08:25:19AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: >Specifying VARIANTS in CONF.sh seems to stop command lines such as " >VARIANTS=blah ./build.sh" from working because it overrides the command >line supplied value. Commenting out the variable is consistent with how >other such varia

Re: Multi-arch netinst getting too big

2010-07-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 03:35:23PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: >On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 15:23 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 10:00:38AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: >> >I don't think libuuid-perl really needs perl and I have filed #588427 to >> >that effect. >> >> Cool. > >It's

Re: Multi-arch netinst getting too big

2010-07-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 09:45:12PM -0700, Chris Reich wrote: > >This powerpc user would rather not see powerpc dropped from the >netinstall disk but accepts that it may be the time to do it in the >interests of the much larger number of x86 based hardware in the >wild. Yup. There will still be a s

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[PATCH] Do not set VARIANTS in CONF.sh by default

2010-07-09 Thread Ian Campbell
Specifying VARIANTS in CONF.sh seems to stop command lines such as " VARIANTS=blah ./build.sh" from working because it overrides the command line supplied value. Commenting out the variable is consistent with how other such variables are treated. I suspect the only reason VARIANTS=xen has been