Re: CVS commit: src/share/man/man5

[Stephen Borrill <sborrill%netbsd.org@localhost>]

Juan RP wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 16:11:52 +0100
> Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost> wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 08:14:10AM +0000, Stephen Borrill wrote:
>>> Module Name:        src
>>> Committed By:       sborrill
>>> Date:               Wed Nov 21 08:14:10 UTC 2007
>>>
>>> Modified Files:
>>>     src/share/man/man5: boot.cfg.5
>>>
>>> Log Message:
>>> While boot.cfg support is currently i386 only, it is hoped that its use
>>> will be extended to other appropriate ports in future. Note as such in
>>> the bugs section.
>>>
>>> This is an MI man page, so should not be flagged as i386 in the header.
>> This should work for amnd64 too, isn't it ? AFAIK the i386 and amd64 boot
>> loaders got merged some time ago ...
> 
> Yes, it's the x86 bootloader now.

Good point, I'll fix the man page.

> I think we should use boot.cfg for the x86 installation iso images.

Yes, I'm working on that - currently CDIMAGE would copy on the CVS dirs,
so I'm looking at taking advantage of pax's -m option to pass in an
mtree specification. I've not yet decided whether to have this as a
fixed file or whether to base it on the output of mtree -m -X cdskip
(where cdskip contains CVS).

-- 
Dr. Stephen Borrill
http://www.netbsd.org/~sborrill/