Subject: Re: oversized ramdisk
To: Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk>
From: Luke Mewburn <lukem@netbsd.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 04/18/2003 10:04:48
On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 08:14:03PM +0100, Patrick Welche wrote:
| ramdisk-big has grown too much.. Guessing: more obsolete files in
| the list.. It seems we're on a loosing wicket, as that list will
| just grow. Maybe a different way of dealing with them? Doesn't the
| list of obsolete files end up in base.tgz, so do they really need to
| live in the ramdisk?
That's a good point; sysinst doesn't really need to have support for
the obsolete sets any more, since etc/postinstall on the extracted
system can do the same job.
Could you send-pr this suggestion so that it doesn't get forgotten?
Thanks,
Luke.