Re: Request for review/testing: switching the default installer

From: Doug Barton <dougb_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2011 12:55:08 -0800
On 03/03/2011 02:22, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:

> While working on this maybe it would be interesting to now use makefs
> instead of mkisofs, making installer generation 100% self hosting.
>
> makefs has recently been updating to a recent version from netbsd and
> now support iso9660, I already managed to create bootable livecd with
> it.

That would be very nice. There is a weird situation now where you can't 
do ISO creation within 'make release' without also building ports, which 
is a lot of overhead. I "solved" this problem by scripting the ISO 
creation as a separate step, but it felt kludgy to me.

Another nice improvement in this space would be to be able to select the 
specific ISO(s) that you want to create.


Doug

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