HI Dave and Jean.
OK. From your responses, sounds like the milepost is in the right place
w.r.t. the finalizer script list.
Thanks,
Jack
On 12/16/08 09:40, Dave Miner wrote:
> Jean McCormack wrote:
>> Jack Schwartz wrote:
>>> Hi Jean.
>>>
>>> On 12/16/08 07:51, Jean McCormack wrote:
>>>> Attached is what I believe is what we've decided upon.
>>>> I put the signpost after the packages since I believe it will be an
>>>> item that
>>>> is much more likely to be configured.
>>> The three main items in the manifest which can be changed to mold a
>>> distro (other than names and build areas), seems to me, are the
>>> package list, the bootroot files list and the finalizer script entries.
>>>
>>> Placing of this signpost implies that the finalizer script list
>>> isn't frequently modified. Do you think this is accurate?
>> I'm not really sure that people outside of our group are really
>> modifying the finalizer list.
>> I believe the real issue is what does "frequently modified" really
>> imply? I believe that build_area is going to be modified by most
>> people Beyond that, everything is a subset. I even debated about
>> whether the package list was frequently modified or not
>> but went with "yes" due to recent activity we've seen.
>
> I'd look at it like this: adding finalizer steps means writing
> additional scripts and really diving into the DC architecture, putting
> it on the less likely end. You might try to comment out some of the
> existing ones, but then you're doing advanced work as well. The
> purpose is to direct the newbies, that's all.
>
> The list of files on the root archive shouldn't need to change often;
> its purpose is to get the rest of the image mounted.
>
> Package lists are going to be an obvious point of experimentation,
> though, as you've observed.
>
> Dave
