Dave Miner wrote: > 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? >> > > Are there any that we know need to be duplicated? If so, then perhaps > this is OK, but if there aren't, then the mechanism seems unnecessary. > > Dave > Yes there are. /usr, /boot, /platform, /jack (I found that one interesting) and /root.
Jean
