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Re: Boot floppies 2.2.23



On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 12:31:23PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> Jonathan McDowell <noodles@earth.li> writes:
> 
> > > If I recall, building on m68k in particular needs a lot of files
> > > external to CVS for some reason. Poor ghetto port that it is.
> > 
> > The bootstra.tpp file is the only one I've actually come across so far.
If you look at:
potato/main/disks-m68k/current/source/m68k-support.tar.gz 
you see the other files which were used in the last bf build for m68k.

> > Perhaps a mention of it in the readme might be a good idea.
> 
> Why, that leads me to the question, why do we do things this way?  We
> shouldn't... shouldn't the file should be packaged separately and used
> from whereever the package provides it.  Where does the file come from?
>From the slink CD... there are a few other binaries, the quickinstall
guides, and the amiga icons and booter in amiga-kit.tgz. I never wanted to
put the binaries and icons into CVS, but if you want to, just feed them in.
They will probably not change much in the near future, neither do the
install guides, unless somebody picks it up?
 
Christian
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