Re: pushing netbsd-5 (Was: bootloader)

>                netbsd-ATARITT.gz       -> netbsd-A.gz
>                netbsd-BOOT.gz          -> netbsd-B.gz
>                netbsd-BOOTX.gz         -> netbsd-B.gz (conflict!)
>                netbsd-FALCON.gz        -> netbsd-F.gz
>                netbsd-HADES.gz         -> netbsd-H.gz
>                netbsd-MILAN-ISAIDE.gz  -> netbsd-M.gz
>                netbsd-MILAN-PCIIDE.gz  -> netbsd-M.gz (conflict!)

I think it makes more sense to drop the "netbsd" part out of the filename. 
When I do an install, I take netbsd-ATARITT and just rename it to ATARITT.

David Ross
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "T. Makinen" <[email protected]>
To: "David Brownlee" <[email protected]>
Cc: "David Brownlee" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>; 
<[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 1:32 PM
Subject: Re: pushing netbsd-5 (Was: bootloader)


> On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 7:59 PM, David Brownlee <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> >        All of the other ports call the kernels in binary/kernel
>>> >        'netbsd-*.gz' so it would be nice to be consistent.
>>> >        I suppose a cheap way to help it would be to rename them
>>> >        so they truncate to unique names, say:
>>> >
>>> >                BOOTX           -> XBOOT
>>> >                MILAN-PCIIDE    -> MILAN
>>> >                MILAN->ISAIDE   -> ISAIDE-MILAN
>>> >
>>> >        Not ideal, but a little better.
>>>
>>> Yes, they're truncated just like that, so we need some unique names.
>>
>> Does anyone have any objections to the renaming given above?
>
> It's shame that naming breaks consistency, but otherwise there's no way to
> install kernel during installation from Gemdos partition.
>
> Anyway I think that suggested renaming is Ok.
>
> -Tuomo
>