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Re: Building boot images with boot-floppies on PowerMac



On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Eduard Bloch wrote:

 
> Feel free to create a such thing, I won't accept it in the "stable"
> branch.

Here is a patch to allow user customising without changing any source
at all.

It doesn't address any other problems, it simply eliminates the need to
edit the config file itself.

Kultarr:~/cvs/bf/boot-floppies# cvs -q diff -u
Index: README
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/debian-boot/boot-floppies/README,v
retrieving revision 1.30
diff -u -r1.30 README
--- README      28 Feb 2002 21:37:29 -0000      1.30
+++ README      26 Jun 2003 06:50:54 -0000
@@ -51,6 +51,8 @@
     (The font reduction process needs to run under a UTF-8 locale.  It
     doesn't much matter which one; en_IN.UTF-8 was just a random
choice.)

+Configuration ovverides for config can be stored in
$HOME/boot-floppies/config
+
 Whenever you are setting up boot-floppies for building on a new
 system, you need to follow these steps:

Index: config
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/debian-boot/boot-floppies/config,v
retrieving revision 1.170
diff -u -r1.170 config
--- config      22 Feb 2003 16:55:16 -0000      1.170
+++ config      26 Jun 2003 06:50:54 -0000
@@ -227,6 +227,7 @@
 # Empty string for no, anything else for yes.
 CLEAN_RELEASE_DIR_AFTER_TAR =

+include $(HOME)/boot-floppies/config
 # export MAINTAINER="1name 2name <XXXX@debian.org>"

 # For debuging set these defines
Index: debian/changelog
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/debian-boot/boot-floppies/debian/changelog,v
retrieving revision 1.1361
diff -u -r1.1361 changelog
--- debian/changelog    23 Apr 2003 02:37:16 -0000      1.1361
+++ debian/changelog    26 Jun 2003 06:51:10 -0000
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
     - kernel 2.2.22 on alpha, i386
     - installation from some USB and FireWire devices possible [i386]
     - pt removed on i386 floppy (only floppy version)
+    - Read optional config overrides from $(home)/boot-floppies/config

   * Matthew Vernon:
     - remove an unhelpful and incorrect paragraph about ssh since
       debconf
Kultarr:~/cvs/bf/boot-floppies#


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Cheers
John Summerfield

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