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  • From: Paul Mahon <dufflebunk AT dufflebunk.homeip.net>
  • To: sm-discuss <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] ISO generation
  • Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 13:14:07 -0500

For empty dirs, perhaps you could put a single README file in the empty
dirs explaining what sort of files should go in, and suggested
subdirectory structure... quote bits of the unn... that one standard...
LSB?

On Thu, 2005-27-01 at 13:09 +0100, Karsten Behrmann wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 18:41:32 -0800 (PST)
> Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us> wrote:
> > > 2. use the skeleton:
> > > I just like the idea. If any non-spell (or overriding a spell) file
> > > needs to be on the ISO, it's in a directory tree representing the ISO.
> > > If any file needs changing, it can be found quickly. No more cat
> > > <<EOF's.
> >
> > e.g. the /etc directory would be in the skeleton? Would this also
> > include a skeleton directory structure (/opt, /media, /usr,
> > /usr/share, etc.)?
> Basically, yes about the /etc.
> All alien files in /etc are to be in the skeleton.
> We have a technical problem however with a skeleton directory structure,
> as perforce does not do empty directories; a directory solely exists because
> something is in it. Therefore there is the file iso.dirs in my scripts
> that specifies a directory structure to be created.
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