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Date:      Tue, 11 Dec 2012 16:50:03 -0500
From:      Rick Miller <vmiller@hostileadmin.com>
To:        Devin Teske <dteske@freebsd.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: make release and mfsroot
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Hi Devin,

On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Devin Teske <devin.teske@fisglobal.com> wrote:
> Hi Rick,
>
> If you want, you could follow my approach which is to take the completed
> mfsroot.gz and use a Makefile to manage the creation of custom mfsroots
> (keeping the original unmodified, making it simpler to test different
> iterations).

Very interesting approach.  I like it and will test it.

It looks as though I would need to add code to the Makefile if files
copied in later are greater in size than the space available.  Would
you agree?

> The advantage is that you don't have to re-perform the release(7) process
> each time you want to make a change to your mfsroot.

This is a very compelling advantage.

-- 
Take care
Rick Miller



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