Re: [arch-releng] Multi-arch ISOs [was: kernel26-lts]

On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 4:39 PM, Aaron Griffin wrote:

On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Dieter Plaetinck wrote:

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Any estimate on the size? i see that normal kernel packages are +- 33 MB. I heard that if we want to do multi-arch iso's (we do) we're pretty close to the limit of our current approach.

With the new --arch param to pacman (in git, I think), we can install EITHER system from an i686 ISO. I think this almost makes the way of putting BOTH systems on a multi-arch ISO moot. I mean, we probably don't even need to ship an x86_64 ISO as one ISO could install both systems. It'd make a lot of things easier to simply ship the lowest common denominator, not to mention size

Not as easy as it seems. If any of the packages install scripts depend on binaries just installed (and I know several do), we can't execute an x86_64 binary in an i686 system. -Dan