Re: Adding RELEASEDIR/iso to release(7)

Manuel Bouyer <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.devel.installation
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 02:58:50PM +0200, Alan Barrett wrote:
> On Thu, 05 Apr 2007, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > > releases(7) doesn't talk about RELEASEDIR/iso at all.  I'd like to
> > > update it, but first I'd like to understand the difference between the
> > > two locations.  Given a CD-ROM image, how would you determine which
> > > directory it belongs in, and how would you choose the file name?
> > 
> > Well, the isos in RELEASEDIR/MACHINE/install/cdrom/* only contains
> > INSTALL kernels, but not the binary sets.
> 
> Is that true for all architectures, including those that still use
> mkisofs to generate images?

Not yet; the attached patch should make it that way.

> 
> Is "does not contain binary sets" the important factor that should me
> mentioned in release(7) as a differentiator between RELEASEDIR/iso and
> RELEASEDIR/MACHINE/install/cdrom?

I think so.

> 
> If the answers to the above questions are both "yes", then does
> the following patch look OK?

The images in RELEASEDIR/iso are named 'ARCH'cd.iso, to match what we
currently have in pub/NetBSD/iso/. Otherwise, looks good !

-- 
Manuel Bouyer <[email protected]>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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