Re: m68k boot-floppies
On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 07:42:30PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> "Christian T. Steigies" <cts@debian.org> writes:
>
> > But I have
> > another question after I read Nicks mail wrt vme layout again carefully.
> > Right now I have the following bin files:
> >
> [snip]
> >
> > which will be copied to release/ and renamed somehow soon.
> > If I understood the layout now correctly, the 1440 files (which will be in
> > release/images-1.44) should be moved in flavour/images-1.44 and the remaining
> > root* files as well as linux* and drivers*.tgz go into flavour/ ?
>
> These aren't flavors, are they, they are subarchitectures. Flavors
> are just variations for a single architecture. The only arch which
> needs this that I know of is i386.
>
> See the top-level README-Users.m4 for a description. But I'm pretty
> sure these are subarches, not flavors, so I don't know why you would
> have a 'release/images-1.44' -- what would those files apply to ?
> That only makes sense for i386, which has no subarches but rather
> flavors, and there is a "vanilla" flavor, which is like no flavor at
> all.
Well, the base tarball is the same for every subarch, at least i think so.
what is the fundamental difference between flavours and subarch ?
Friendly,
Sven LUTHER
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