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FS#4679 - Make archboot really modular

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Monday, 22 May 2006, 06:55 GMT
Last edited by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Monday, 22 May 2006, 09:25 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Testing
Status Closed
Assigned To Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Architecture not specified
Severity Very Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7.1 Noodle
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Archboot has too many dependencies. Most of them should be optional. This wil make archboot really modular utility (as stasted in it's description).
Dependencies, that should be optional:
mksyslinux, mkpxelinux, mkbootcd,
cryptsetup, e2fsprogs, jfsutils, reiserfsprogs, xfsprogs,
iputils, net-tools, netcat, snarf,
cvs, wireless_tools, pcmciautils,
lvm2, mdadm,
e3, vim (why they are dependencies???).
This task depends upon

Closed by  Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Monday, 26 February 2007, 21:34 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't implement
Comment by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Monday, 22 May 2006, 09:24 GMT
yes atm it's work in progress and you can modify it on your own ;)
i try to clone the arch install cd and there all these programs are included.
EDIT:
also the arch setup script needs tons of those programs, that's the reason for specifying them all.
Comment by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Monday, 22 May 2006, 09:41 GMT
Where is CVS entry for it? And for mkinitcpio, mkinitpxelinux, mkinitsyslinux, mkbootcd, klibc, klibc-extra???
Comment by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Monday, 22 May 2006, 09:42 GMT
http://cvs.archlinux.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/system/?cvsroot=Extra&only_with_tag=TESTING#dirlist
Comment by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Monday, 22 May 2006, 10:10 GMT
http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/4646#comment9897
Comment by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Friday, 26 May 2006, 10:49 GMT
> EDIT:
> also the arch setup script needs tons of those programs, that's the reason for specifying them all.
Why it needs them all? If some feature is not used - correspondent utils are not needed, I suppose.
What if user want's to use archboot to make his/her own arch CD and don't want all other stuff?
I know that right now, when archboot is in developement - there is no real need to polish dependency list. But I would like to see a much less dependencies. ;)
Comment by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Friday, 26 May 2006, 11:43 GMT
well it clones the arch install cd there all these programs are there and probably used in setup script or usefull on commandline,
it's very easy if you want to modifiy it to your needs so please adjust everything how you need it, arch is easy to modify

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