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Date:      Wed, 23 Jul 2003 00:15:28 +0300
From:      Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        vendors@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/release Makefile
Message-ID:  <20030722211528.GA96342@sunbay.com>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20030722150559.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <20030722185621.GD80514@sunbay.com> <XFMail.20030722150559.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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Here we go.

Dear vendors, could you please publish your position on the below
item?

On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 03:05:59PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
>=20
> On 22-Jul-2003 Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 02:46:00PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> >> >> >> On Tuesday 22 July 2003 05:04 am, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> >> >> >> > ru          2003/07/22 02:04:09 PDT
> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> >   FreeBSD src repository
> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> >   Modified files:
> >> >> >> >     release              Makefile
> >> >> >> >   Log:
> >> >> >> >   /floppies/boot.flp is no longer necessary on bootable i386 C=
D-ROMs.
> >> >> >> >
> >> >> >> >   Forgotten by:   jhb
> >> >> >>=20
> >> >> >> I left it there so that people can choose which method they want=
 to use
> >> >> >> to make bootable CD's.  It was intentional, not a bug.  The meth=
od is
> >> >> >> chosen at mkisofs invocation time, not when laying out the hiera=
rchy.
> >> >> >>=20
> >> >> > How they can choose it?
> >> >>=20
> >> >> They don't use MAKE_ISOS and invoke mkisofs on their own.  I have n=
ever
> >> >> used MAKE_ISOS when building a release and have always used my own =
buildreliso
> >> >> script.
> >> >> =20
> >> > So you agree there's no sense to keep the boot.flp on the second
> >> > CD-ROM image in official version?  Your own script can take care
> >> > of copying it to the CD-ROM if necessary.
> >>=20
> >> No, my intention was to allow distributors like FreeBSD Mall,
> >> BSD Mall, etc. to easily choose which method they wanted to use.
> >> I.e., if they weren't comfortable with cdboot, they could still roll
> >> an ISO from the same tree using boot.flp without having to jump
> >> through hoops.  However, if no one wants to use boot.flp anymore,
> >> then it should be removed outright since 2.88 floppies don't "really"
> >> exist in a useful fashion.
> >>=20
> > Murray, Chern, that's your call then.  Would you like me to revert
> > this change?  Do you need the /floppies/boot.flp on the 1st and
> > 2nd i386 CD-ROMs?
>=20
> The vendors@ list might be the best place to ask.

--=20
Ruslan Ermilov		Sysadmin and DBA,
ru@sunbay.com		Sunbay Software Ltd,
ru@FreeBSD.org		FreeBSD committer

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