Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2011 11:22:10 +0100 From: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org> To: Paul Schenkeveld <freebsd@psconsult.nl> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Request for review/testing: switching the default installer Message-ID: <AANLkTi=Rc3CcQEAJcQnJFZ1xdqPA1=-ZLnTaL4Muh12b@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20110303091903.GA79958@psconsult.nl> References: <4D6BB5E3.6020408@freebsd.org> <201102281020.12599.jhb@freebsd.org> <4D6E641A.4060109@freebsd.org> <20110303091903.GA79958@psconsult.nl>
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2011/3/3 Paul Schenkeveld <freebsd@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 appreci= ate >> >> feedback: >> >> - The src tree is not split up into pieces (e.g. ssbin) as with sysin= stall >> > 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 Makefil= e bits >> > to build kernels. =A0I commonly install this subset on production mach= ines 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? =A0This 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-arch@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-arch > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-arch-unsubscribe@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
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