2011/3/3 Paul Schenkeveld <free...@psconsult.nl>: > On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 09:36:58AM -0600, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: >> On 02/28/11 09:20, John Baldwin wrote: >> > On Monday, February 28, 2011 9:49:07 am Nathan Whitehorn wrote: >> >> There are some changes to the distribution format involved in this >> >> patch, which are outlined below, and about which I would also appreciate >> >> feedback: >> >> - The src tree is not split up into pieces (e.g. ssbin) as with sysinstall >> > I would at least like to have src split up into two pieces: >> > >> > 1) would be equivalent of sbase and ssys of old distributions, so you could >> > choose to just install kernel sources along with the top-level Makefile >> > bits >> > to build kernels. I commonly install this subset on production machines >> > so I >> > can install a custom kernel in a pinch. >> > >> > 2) would be everything else in the source tree. >> >> This is a little bit tricky, since it involves inter-distribution >> dependencies which don't currently exist (e.g. you need sbase for ssys >> to be useful, and for severythingelse to be useful). I suppose that the >> top-level Makefile bits are small and could end up in both archives, >> where one can overwrite the other with the same thing. Would that solve >> your problem? >> -Nathan > > Why not put the toplevel Makefiles, README and perhaps COPYRIGHT and > MAINTAINERS file into base? This way there are no inter-dependencies > between src parts, /usr/src will consume only a modest bit of space > in base but documents wat ont would be able to do is sbase/ssys were > installed. > > Regards, > > Paul Schenkeveld > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-a...@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-arch > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-arch-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" >
While working on this maybe it would be interesting to now use makefs instead of mkisofs, making installer generation 100% self hosting. makefs has recently been updating to a recent version from netbsd and now support iso9660, I already managed to create bootable livecd with it. regards, Bapt _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
