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Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 12:11:27 +0400
From: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@...nwall.com>
To: owl-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: syslinux
Solar,
On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 12:02 +0400, Solar Designer wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 11:44:46AM +0400, Vasiliy Kulikov wrote:
> > The syslinux.spec is attached. For isolinux we need only the core
> > package, syslinux. The full list of generated RPMS is as follows:
> >
> > syslinux-4.04-owl1.i686.rpm
> > syslinux-devel-4.04-owl1.i686.rpm
> > syslinux-extlinux-4.04-owl1.i686.rpm
> > syslinux-perl-4.04-owl1.i686.rpm
> > syslinux-tftpboot-4.04-owl1.i686.rpm
> >
> > Do we want to package all these capabilities or to wipe them from the
> > sources as in nmap?
>
> How large are they?
$ ls -l RPMS/
total 2524
-rw------- 1 build sources 1147283 Oct 26 08:06 syslinux-4.04-owl1.i686.rpm
-rw------- 1 build sources 310930 Oct 26 08:06 syslinux-devel-4.04-owl1.i686.rpm
-rw------- 1 build sources 505132 Oct 26 08:06 syslinux-extlinux-4.04-owl1.i686.rpm
-rw------- 1 build sources 20588 Oct 26 08:06 syslinux-perl-4.04-owl1.i686.rpm
-rw------- 1 build sources 589161 Oct 26 08:06 syslinux-tftpboot-4.04-owl1.i686.rpm
$ ls -l RPMS/
total 2520
-rw------- 1 build sources 1145878 Oct 26 08:06 syslinux-4.04-owl1.x86_64.rpm
-rw------- 1 build sources 310713 Oct 26 08:06 syslinux-devel-4.04-owl1.x86_64.rpm
-rw------- 1 build sources 504654 Oct 26 08:06 syslinux-extlinux-4.04-owl1.x86_64.rpm
-rw------- 1 build sources 20541 Oct 26 08:06 syslinux-perl-4.04-owl1.x86_64.rpm
-rw------- 1 build sources 589182 Oct 26 08:06 syslinux-tftpboot-4.04-owl1.x86_64.rpm
> > Also, Fedora has a patch for GPT support for 4.02, but it doesn't apply
> > to 4.04. Do we need it?
>
> We don't need it right away. We'll need it later, but doesn't
> up-to-date syslinux support GPT already?
I don't think so:
"author Matthew Garrett <mjg@...hat.com>
Thu, 25 Aug 2011 13:12:15 +0000 (09:12 -0400)
Add support for building Mac and GPT bootable hybrid images."
http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=syslinux.git;a=commit;h=1abf7b206f5292e3c7e0d791476efacd76480bf7
I think Fedora will update the patch for 4.04 very soon ;-)
> But please proceed to prepare us for this move:
>
> We'll need updates to Owl/build/ such that ISOs will be built with
> isolinux instead of LILO.
Do you mean I should prepare a patch for using isolinux for ISO
generation before the glibc update or just a syslinux package and switch
to syslinux after the glibc update and after relevant fixes/enhancements?
Thanks,
--
Vasiliy
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