Contents of /trunk/build/TODO

* The busybox in the bootfloppy can be linked with uclibc and/or statically
  to make it smaller. Only the linuxrc uses it, so it doesn't really
  matter. This could save up to 200k on the boot floppy. But first someone
  needs to add code to install uclibc or a uclibc udeb.
* Find something to do with spare space on the bootfloppy; put udebs there
  for extra drivers or something.
* The apt download fails if the dpkg status file of the build system is
  in an inconsistent state. It could be overridden to use another status
  file, but that file would have to claim that all dependancies of the
  udebs it's downloading were met. Hmm.
* The debian/ directory is a bit of a mess because of the stillborn
  autobuilder stuff that is not going to happen.
* The extra driver disks stuff is currently hardcoded for one disk, and
  should be generalised and generally cleaned up.
* The size calcs in make stats for driver1 are not right, it can be full
  and will show as having space free.
* Add a terminfo-udeb and remove the workaround from Makefile.
* Change mklibs to not pull in libraries from the build system, and only
  act on libraries in the tree; those libraries would then be provided by
  udebs; this would be cleaner in several ways (and it's why eg anna
  depends on libc-udeb already).
* Switch alpha, powerpc, over to new "di" KERNEL_FLAVOUR.
* Convert the driver floppies to use FAT filesystem, not ext2, on i386.
  Makes it easier for third parties to throw additional udebs on.
* Cache the upxed kernel, to avoid re-upxing it over and over.
1	* The busybox in the bootfloppy can be linked with uclibc and/or statically
2	to make it smaller. Only the linuxrc uses it, so it doesn't really
3	matter. This could save up to 200k on the boot floppy. But first someone
4	needs to add code to install uclibc or a uclibc udeb.
5	* Find something to do with spare space on the bootfloppy; put udebs there
6	for extra drivers or something.
7	* The apt download fails if the dpkg status file of the build system is
8	in an inconsistent state. It could be overridden to use another status
9	file, but that file would have to claim that all dependancies of the
10	udebs it's downloading were met. Hmm.
11	* The debian/ directory is a bit of a mess because of the stillborn
12	autobuilder stuff that is not going to happen.
13	* The extra driver disks stuff is currently hardcoded for one disk, and
14	should be generalised and generally cleaned up.
15	* The size calcs in make stats for driver1 are not right, it can be full
16	and will show as having space free.
17	* Add a terminfo-udeb and remove the workaround from Makefile.
18	* Change mklibs to not pull in libraries from the build system, and only
19	act on libraries in the tree; those libraries would then be provided by
20	udebs; this would be cleaner in several ways (and it's why eg anna
21	depends on libc-udeb already).
22	* Switch alpha, powerpc, over to new "di" KERNEL_FLAVOUR.
23	* Convert the driver floppies to use FAT filesystem, not ext2, on i386.
24	Makes it easier for third parties to throw additional udebs on.
25	* Cache the upxed kernel, to avoid re-upxing it over and over.