Date: Sat, 7 May 2011 19:22:31 +0000 From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org> To: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> Subject: Re: svn commit: r221497 - head/release/ia64 Message-ID: <20110507192231.GA39113@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <4DC36B2B.4010509@freebsd.org> References: <201105051416.p45EGfcd003037@svn.freebsd.org> <8FF5539E-F91D-46C6-9019-B40CB8010A85@xcllnt.net> <4DC36B2B.4010509@freebsd.org>
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On Thu, May 05, 2011 at 10:29:47PM -0500, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: > I'm cleaning up the release-building code, and am switching them from > mkisofs to makefs, which provides the same functionality. This started > with some irritation with the cdrtools port and a bug in the HFS hybrid > generation that was breaking PPC release CD generation. On a seemingly unrelated note, I've been under impression that for a long time, FreeBSD had some problems with generating "hybrid" installation images, while both some Linux distrosi (?) and Haiku had long history of providing *something* that can be equally burnt on CD and memstick. Are there plans for FreeBSD to do the same? Frankly speaking, right now assortment on ISOs offered by us seems quite suboptimal (e.g., there is not baseinstall+livefs image, which seems the most desirable). ./danfe
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