Jack Schwartz wrote:
> 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?
Great name. Thanks for the input.

Jean

>
>    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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