Subject: Re: To build i386 -current as of yesterday via build.sh -m/etc on i386...
To: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
List: current-users
Date: 01/20/2006 13:36:04
In message <20060120172122.GI22548@drowsy.duskware.de>, Martin Husemann writes:
>On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 12:10:29PM -0500, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
>> It would be nice if build.sh could invoke this, or if there was some 
>> standard script to build bootable CDs of distributions.  
>
>There is:
>
>  cd etc && ${TOOLDIR}/bin/nbmake-${MACHINE} iso-image
>
>but I think it has not been updated to use mkfs(8) instead of mkisofs from
>pkgsrc (nor the CD bootloader, and non-ramdisk-root kernel)
>

That's good to know and I'll flag your note so I can find it easily in 
the future.  That said, I'll repeat my original suggestion: is there 
any reason it shouldn't be a target in build.sh, to be used after 
'distribution'?


		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb