From owner-freebsd-small Fri May 12 5:56:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from green.wl.vg (green.wl.vg [204.200.26.138]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F12F237C09C for ; Fri, 12 May 2000 05:56:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from patrick@whetstonelogic.com) Received: from whetstonelogic.com (pathome [209.9.69.194]) by green.wl.vg (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id FAA59283; Fri, 12 May 2000 05:53:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from patrick@whetstonelogic.com) Message-ID: <391BFF14.32DB783B@whetstonelogic.com> Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 08:54:44 -0400 From: Patrick Gardella Organization: Whetstone Logic, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Jeffrey S. Sharp" Cc: freebsd-small Subject: Re: Progress on TinyBSD make-based build References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Might I suggest that we start a new directory for this on the http://www.freebsd.org/small/ pages? I'll be updating them shortly to reflect the new stuff we've had done recently. I'd be happy to add a tinybsd directory to it. Uploading files, such as sources won't be bad. If it works well, we can add it to the /usr/src/release alongside picobsd. Patrick "Jeffrey S. Sharp" wrote: > > It's taken me a little longer than I expected, but I have finished a beta > version of the TinyBSD Development Kit, complete with all the original > features that I wanted to put in. I haven't looked into the features that > people have suggested, but I plan to at some point. Once I write some > documentation, I will make a release it somewhere for cheers and jeers > (hopefully more of the former :). > > It's not really a huge deal; it's pretty much just a Makefile, a script, a > directory tree, and some sample conf files. The Makefile is softlinked > throughout the directory tree and serves as the user interface to the > build system. The script, named 'config', takes conf files and generates > a set of makefiles that do the actual work of building a distribution. > > Like I predicted, I did not have ample time to worry about extraneous > testing for error conditions. Thus, it is incredibly easy to screw > something up and get no more feedback than a failed make. More work needs > to be done in that area. > > Also, I'm not quite up the super-guru level that a lot of you are. Making > this thing go has been very educational for me, but I'm sure there are a > few boneheaded things still left in there as a result of my > non-guru-ness. A second result is that I'm not really sure what the best > method of release is. What should I do? Put a tarball up on a web site > somewhere? Start a CVS server (overkill?)? -- Patrick ---------- Patrick Gardella patrick@whetstonelogic.com VP-Technology patrick@freebsd.org Whetstone Logic, Inc. This space intentionally left blank. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message