Actually on a realtaed note - you might want to look at
	distrib/sparc/ramdisk.sysinst

	I modified it to use m4 so I could build i386 and sparc ramdisk
	kernels from the same directory. My intentionw as to migrate
	it into an MI area and expand it to other ports.

	btw - I like the idea of your crunchgen changes, but would
	an 'include' directive be more generic?

		David/absolute

                -=-  "Why am I seething with this animosity"  -=-

On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Jonathan Stone wrote:

> 
> Our setup for building miniroots and install-kernel ramdisk images
> have gotten messy. Too much is duplicated: Multiple,
> not-quite-consistent copies of runlist. No central place to list the
> MI utilities which sysinst or the sh-script update/install require,
> multiple list inputs, ...
> 
> I'd like to clean that up. Below are some (trivial) diffs to crunchgen
> which let it read multiple .conf files. The idea is to break out
>       1. stuff needed to boot: init, 
>       2. a) MI stuff needed by install/upgrade scripts
>          b) MD stuff needed by install/upgrade scripts
>       3	 a) MI stuff needed by sysinst (or Perry's too)
>          b) MD stuff needed by sysinst (or Perry's too)
> 
> and the same for the `list' run to populate the file.
> 
> This could be generalized to allow other configs for turnkey boot
> floppies for "xterminal", "router" &c.
> 
> Anyway, here's the crunchgen diff. I've tested it by  breaking
> out `tip' from the pmax ramdiskbin.conf  into a ramdiskbin.pmax.conf,
> adding that to the ramdisk Makefile CRUNCHCONF. all goes OK.
> Anyone care to review it before committing?