Hi Jean.
Sounds reasonable to me, since the original flexibility is retained. I
would make sure the added attribute has a descriptive name. dup_ok
isn't descriptive enough. Something nearly as descriptive as
"save_in_pkg_image_area" but shorter. How about pkg_image_save?
Thanks,
Jack
On 02/10/09 14:18, Jean McCormack wrote:
> I'm working on 1041 which deals with the fact that some files exist in
> both the pkg_image area and the bootroot and don't need too.
> There are quite a few files where this is true and yet there are whole
> directories like /usr, /boot, /platform.. where this is not true.
>
> My thought is that in the future people may add to the bootroot
> contents and just screening out the files we know have to stay duplicated
> and removing the others could leave to problems. I'm suggesting adding
> another field to the bootroot_contents base_include to deal with this.
> It would be something like dup_ok = true or false. false would be the
> default value if someone doesn't specify.
>
> Any reasons not to?
>
> Jean
>
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