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Date:      Sat, 02 Nov 2002 11:45:25 -0500 (EST)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/release Makefile
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20021102114525.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20021102082032.GC17714@sunbay.com>

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On 02-Nov-2002 Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 12:53:50PM -0800, John Baldwin wrote:
>> jhb         2002/11/01 12:53:50 PST
>> 
>>   Modified files:
>>     release              Makefile 
>>   Log:
>>   - Copy the mfsroot.gz file to /R/stage/mfsroot/ so that the CD-ROM layout
>>     can fetch it from there instead of looking in the boot floppy's
>>     directory.
>>   - Add a NO_FLOPPIES variable that disables building of any boot floppies.
>>   
>>   Tested on:      alpha
>>   
>>   Revision  Changes    Path
>>   1.717     +12 -10    src/release/Makefile
>> 
> Old version of cdrom.1 used to save some space by using ln(1).
> With this change, the required disk size increzed three times
> by the size of mfsroot.gz and loader.conf.  Your commit log
> does not say anything about this change.  Why it was made?

B/c using hard links got in the way of some other things.  Note an
earlier commit had to add explicit rm -f's to work around this.  Also,
dealing with custom releases at work where I've had to do post-release
fixups it causes extra headaches.

> Can NO_FLOPPIES go away if Alpha release is fixed (I have some
> ideas)?

I'd like to leave it.  I use it at work where I build a mfsroot
that won't fit on a floppy b/c I add dialog to it to use smarter
sysinstall scripts for an install that only works off of CD.

-- 

John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>  <><  http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
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