Re: m68k boot-floppies

[Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>]

On Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 09:27:49PM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> > > 
> > > At least. For your home machine, you can give yourself root or sudo
> > > privileges all you like. For a remote machine, I'd be very cautious.
> > > Part of the build doesn't require root access anyway. But that's a gripe
> > > I have anyway with Debian builds: it's all or none, from make clean to 
> > > make binary. It would be tremendously helpful to have a separate hook from
> > > dpkg-buildpackage to just package the whole stuff (starting with make
> > > install) and another one to run without make clean, and stop short of make
> > > install. 
> > 
> > There is.  Look at dpkg-buildpackage's -r option; only binary and clean
> > are run with priviledge.  The boot floppies are an exception because of
> > their more particular requirements.
> 
> I'm aware of the -r option. I've built Debian packages before :-) And this
> doesn't help with the problem that the stock build method will start from
> scratch each time, and that means 6+ hours of build on a reasonably fast
> m68k for each run, just to run on the next silly compile or script error.
> Anyway, that's just one of the gripes with boot-floppies from memory; I
> last built the stuff before the slink release. 

Play with dpkg-buildpackage -nc.  It doesn't help so much for b-f at
the moment, given how much is shellscript instead of makefiles, though.

> Are the hfsutils loopback tricks to tweak Mac files in the stock makefile
> now? That would help some to get the booter and preferences converted to a
> format that survives Unix filesystem storage. The install.sit holding all
> of the required stuff in one archive was a convenience measure to make the
> install not too hard on Mac users. That can be dropped no problem once
> somebody actually gets around to building the stuff. 

I don't really know what you're referring to - apparently nothing
similar is really needed for powerpc.

Dan

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