Re: CVS commit: src/distrib

[David Brownlee <abs%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

        (CCing tech-install@, as it may be worth continuing there, please
        drop source-changes-d@ from any followup).

        To anyone tuning in on tech-install@, this is regarding merging
        34 various mini termcap variants under distrib into a single
        ~7K version.

On Mon, 21 Sep 2009, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:

> > > Can't it use src/distrib/common/mktermcap script?
> >
> >         With the ~same set of terminals (actually dropping 'unknown'),
> >         mktermcap generates a 7723 byte termcap file, as opposed to the
> >         6987 byte 'hand crafted' one. Its not really much different,
> >         but on very space constrained install media maybe thats enough
> >         to make a difference? I'm not certain which way to go...
>
> IMO, two fragments in ffs (that will be smaller after gzipped
> for install media which often has actuall size restrictions)
> might be worth to reduce maintenance cost in future because
> most these files (and installer itself) are rarely maintained
> as you see.

        I'm hoping to try to cleanup the unholy mess which is distrib
        a little. I'd like to provide more common ramdisk generation
        infrastructure so that most ports can just have a Makefile
        with half a dozen settings and an 'extras' list file, thus
        making things a little more maintainable.

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