Re: Adding RELEASEDIR/iso to release(7)
Manuel Bouyer <[email protected]>
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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 --