[haiku-development] Re: Q: Modifying InstallSourceArchive behavior
- From: Matt Madia <mattmadia@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2010 22:59:49 +0000
On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 21:44, Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx> wrote:
> So far only Axel has voiced an opinion on whether the sources need to be
> installable via Installer at all ("No.") and I tend to agree. Following that
> thought, it would be fully sufficient to put the source archives anywhere on
> the CD
> image where they can be found by the user, if desired, and where the
> Installer does
> ignore them.
Would changing develop/sources/ to _sources_/ and adding that as
another of Installer's ignored directory be ok? For some reason adding
develop/sources/ as the ignored directory seems, odd.
>> #5785 is probably invalid already (though, i'm not sure how Installer
>> automagically handles the isCDPackages from the build system)
>
> I'm still fond of the idea to get rid of the ISO9660 image completely in
> favor of
> anyboot images. This would also make the "CD package" mechanism superfluous.
For R1 A2, would using the ISO9660 for just the to-be-sold &
physically distributed CD's be ok?
--mmadia
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