On Sat, 4 Nov 2006, Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote:
> However, I have a "problem".  It feels weird that the iso's contain
> other iso's within them; this may not be an issue when
> CDRELEASE=false, but it certainly is when it's set to true.  I did the
> following:
>
> $ cd distrib/i386/cdroms/bootcd
> $ nbmake-i386 CDRELEASE=true clean
> $ nbmake-i386 CDRELEASE=true dependall
> $ nbmake-i386 CDRELEASE=true release
> $ cd ../bootcd-com
> $ nbmake-i386 CDRELEASE=true clean
> $ nbmake-i386 CDRELEASE=true dependall
> $ nbmake-i386 CDRELEASE=true release
>
> After that, the boot-com.iso image contained the big boot.iso image
> within it, thus doubling its size.  The same will happen when building
> the other images, thus growing their size exponentially.

I guess that's why you are not supposed to set CDRELEASE manually for 
those CDs. Try doing a 'normal' build first, and then build in 
.../installcd.

Of course in the long run, someone could fix makefs(8) to have some 
--exclude switch, possibly while adding graft points.


  - Hubert