Ulrich Spoerlein wrote:
On Sat, 14.07.2007 at 23:28:05 -0700, Tim Kientzle wrote:#%ntree bin/echo uid=0 gid=0 group=wheel contents=my/bin/echo ... create a tarball with tar -czf system.tgz @specification.ntree or install directly from the specification file using tar -xvpf specification.ntree -C ${DESTDIR}This would be the perfect basis on which to build a live/install release CD. You boot it up ... [do] the fdisk/bsdlabel/gmirror/zfs stuff ...
> [and] then kick of the install through tar.
Simple and elegant. It would also do away with those base.aa, base.ab, etc. madness.
I'm confused. base.aa, etc, are a tar file, so I don't entirely understand how this would be different? The current installer does the equivalent of cat base.* | tar -xf - I can see one advantage and one disadvantage of installing a specification file (which references other files) instead: Plus: The specification file can re-use the existing files on CD, so you don't have, e.g., one copy of /bin/sh on the live CD and another buried in base.tgz. This could save space. Minus: Installing a specification file this way would be slower because you then have to read a lot of small files off of CD. Or have I missed something? Tim Kientzle _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
