cvs commit: src/release Makefile

Ruslan Ermilov ru at FreeBSD.org
Tue Jul 22 11:40:07 PDT 2003


On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 02:26:28PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> 
> On 22-Jul-2003 Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 10:39:12AM -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 CD-ROMs.
> >> >
> >> >   Forgotten by:   jhb
> >> 
> >> 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 method is
> >> chosen at mkisofs invocation time, not when laying out the hierarchy.
> >> 
> > How they can choose it?
> 
> They don't use MAKE_ISOS and invoke mkisofs on their own.  I have never
> used MAKE_ISOS when building a release and have always used my own buildreliso
> script.
>  
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.


Cheers,
-- 
Ruslan Ermilov		Sysadmin and DBA,
ru at sunbay.com		Sunbay Software Ltd,
ru at FreeBSD.org		FreeBSD committer
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