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

Dan McGee dpmcgee at gmail.com
Mon Aug 31 22:09:59 UTC 2009


On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 4:39 PM, Aaron Griffin<aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Dieter Plaetinck<dieter at plaetinck.be> wrote:
>> 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


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