Re: CVS commit: src/distrib/common

[Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost>]

    Date:        Thu, 9 May 2024 12:09:03 -0400
    From:        "Christos Zoulas" <christos%netbsd.org@localhost>
    Message-ID:  <20240509160903.6E41BFA2C%cvs.NetBSD.org@localhost>

  | Instead of augmenting the platform spec with an autogenerated one,
  | we should understand why we have missing entries in the first place.

Is it really important?   Everything was fine without it previously,
except that reproducible builds, weren't (as local info was being
used in the CD images).

As long as the "augmenting" is just providing info for files that
weren't otherwise specified (an issue I admit to not checking in the
change I made) - that is, as long as makefs takes the first entry in
the spec file it is given, should there be more than one for a file
(if it prefers to use the last, then that would just change the order
in which the augmentation file is included, no need to change makefs)
then I'm not really sure what the problem is.

That is, I don't see we need to add yet another manual maintenance step
that we need to make in order to add or remove a file from a CD image
(or whatever the image is destined for) when the information being added
isn't really important - but just needs to be consistent.

kre