[haiku-development] Re: Unpacking some packages at install time
- From: Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 07 Sep 2009 16:26:47 +0200
On 2009-09-07 at 12:27:15 [+0200], Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> the Installer can now unzip packages in the special folder _packages_ from
> the source volume onto the target volume. To build a CD where packages have
> been added to _packages_ instead of being extracted at build-time, I would
> propose the patch at the end of this mail. Especially Ingo, if you still
> have the time, what do you think about this?
Looks OK.
> As expected, it dramatically
> speeds up the total installation time. The only thing I am not sure about
> is the .OptionalPackageDescription files. Does the build system do anything
> special with those?
As Matt already wrote, all .OptionalPackageDescription files are concatenated
and added as an attribute to AboutSystem. So the installer should do the same.
CU, Ingo
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