Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 13:20:06 -0800 (PST) From: Ken Stailey <kstailey@surfbest.net> To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/33818: Bootable ITS image for KLH-10 PDP-10 emulator Message-ID: <200201122120.g0CLK6u54635@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR ports/33818; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Ken Stailey <kstailey@surfbest.net>
To: Alan Eldridge <alane@geeksrus.net>
Cc: FreeBSD Bugs <freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: ports/33818: Bootable ITS image for KLH-10 PDP-10 emulator
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 16:16:30 -0500
Alan Eldridge wrote:
>
>
>You've got a port that really wants to run as a USER, in a private
>directory.
>
>Perhaps the way this works needs to be thought out a bit more. Like,
>installing the compressed image and providing a "user install" script,
>which makes a user directory with the uncompressed image.
>
>If you work on the master image, then what are you supposed to do when
>you fsck it up? Reinstall the port? Not a good solution.
>
>
Well if there is a master copy of the ITS image it should be compressed.
Some sort of "make-its-user" command would set up the files in a subdir
of a user's home.
The emulator binary proper, kn10-ks, does not need to be root to run. A
subordinate
binary, dpimp, that does networking support for kn10-ks does need to run
as root.
You can still get console access to ITS without root privs but won't be
able to use
network command to get in and out of the emulated ITS.
kn10-ks needs to be in a directory with its support files and
subordinate binaries. None of these
are modified during execution. The emulator image or a symlink to it
needs to be there too.
It does get modified as ITS runs.
hermes# du -ks * | sort -n
1 README
1 flushed
1 klh10-kn.ini
1 klh10-md.ini
1 klh10-pi.ini
9 udlconv
11 wfconv
15 vdkfmt
19 @.ddt-u
19 wxtest
20 dprpxx
22 dpimp
51 tapedd
54 dptm03
64 @.nsalv-260-u
296 itsbin.647kn-u
296 itsbin.647md-u
296 itsbin.647pi-u
304 kn10-ks
344 @.its-647kn-u
344 @.its-647md-u
344 @.its-647pi-u
173712 PI-ITS-RP06.0-dbd9
The port install could put these into ${PREFIX}/libdata as a compressed
tarball. A setup-its-user script could
install the tarball in a given directory. The tarball would be ${LIBMODE}.
Is that OK?
Thanks,
Ken
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