Re: CVS commit: src/distrib
David Brownlee
drop source-changes-d@ from any followup).
To anyone tuning in on tech-install@, this is regarding merging
34 various mini termcap variants under distrib into a single
~7K version.
On Mon, 21 Sep 2009, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
>>> Can't it use src/distrib/common/mktermcap script?
>>
>> With the ~same set of terminals (actually dropping 'unknown'),
>> mktermcap generates a 7723 byte termcap file, as opposed to the
>> 6987 byte 'hand crafted' one. Its not really much different,
>> but on very space constrained install media maybe thats enough
>> to make a difference? I'm not certain which way to go...
>
> IMO, two fragments in ffs (that will be smaller after gzipped
> for install media which often has actuall size restrictions)
> might be worth to reduce maintenance cost in future because
> most these files (and installer itself) are rarely maintained
> as you see.
I'm hoping to try to cleanup the unholy mess which is distrib
a little. I'd like to provide more common ramdisk generation
infrastructure so that most ports can just have a Makefile
with half a dozen settings and an 'extras' list file, thus
making things a little more maintainable.
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