Re: Why the boot-floppies are taking so long.
>>>>> "Adam" == Adam Di Carlo <adam@onshore.com> writes:
Adam> karlheg@bittersweet.inetarena.com (Karl M. Hegbloom) writes:
>> I refer you to: <URL:http://master.debian.org/~karlheg/crock.png>
>> for a look at the definition of `crock'.
>>
>> Trying to parse filenames to determine where to move files to is
>> really bogus. If we can name the files like that to begin with, we
>> can put them where they go to begin with.
Adam> Of course its a crock. Why are you suprised?
>> That's my prescription for `boot-floppies'.
Adam> I don't necessarily disagree, if we can get it down quickly. We
Adam> should be able to just change the make rules or something, no, to do
Adam> this... *sigh*....
Yes, that's the similar line of thought that I followed. Will yous
please run a checkout of `br_woody_exp' in another directory and look
over what I've started there? There are some notes and ramblings in
"rules-notes.txt". Feel free to add to that if you like.
I'm sorry about the "mess" I made in `release.sh'... What do yous
think we should do with that all? It will (in theory; the code has
never been run) create the correct directory structure. The `awk'
script I began (first one I've ever written; like Bugs Bunny in the
airplane, I'm reading "How to Awk" as I go along) is (half) planned
to split the file name apart into the components from the table in
the comment above it, and then print out a `mv' command or whatever
it takes to do the thing that needs to be done with the file.
(That's why it's wrapped in an `eval'.)
For that klugearoni to work, (it has to be finished first obviously)
the Makefile and scripts will need to write the files with the name
syntax the script expects... But if we've got to change all the
names in the scripts, why not make them put things where they go to
begin with... though that may be more work than just changing the
names of files.
I need help with this, I think. Anyone _see_ a better "right now"
solution? (that doesn't require renaming the files output by Make or
the scripts?)
I've never even READ an Awk script before. Can someone finish the
one I started in less time than it will take me to do it, learning
Awk as I go? Whatever it takes; if you've got the experience and can
finish it faster than I can, you'd better do it. My time for this is
limited this week unless somebody mails me a check.
Please, if you have not already done so, look in
"utilities/dbootstrap/main.c:setup_image_filenames()" to see how the
installer forms the location and names of the files it looks for.
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