On Tuesday 06 March 2007 16:43:53 David Zeuthen wrote:
I don't really get this... so you want to add 32-bit packages to
a
64-bit live cd... just so they don't have to pull in 32-bit base
packages (such as glibc) when installing a 32-bit app? What pieces of
software did you have in mind?
I don't really know off hand, it's more about being consistant between the
LiveCD (+install) and what we do for a regular install. I'd hate to see the
LiveCD experience drift more and more to the point that they aren't
comparable. I really don't know what people will try to do with a LiveCD,
particularly an x86_64 one.
So I guess I'm suggest to just install 64-bit packages and
don't bother
pulling in any 32-bit packages until they're needed. What's wrong with
that?
Other than it is completely differnet from what we do for a regular install...
I really don't know.
> > Btw, you didn't answer my question though- can you do
package selection
> > in kickstart based on what arch it is?
>
> I don't believe so.
Perhaps that's something it needs to do. We're going to end up seeing
size differences in ISO files for archs. For example x86 livecd may be
30MB smaller than ppc livecd; that space can and should be used for
something useful such as more themes, more promotional materials or
whatever.
I'd like to see some actual attempts at these other arches to see what the
size differences are before we go too far off into the weeds of trying to
define a different package set for each arch.
--
Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora