snapshots are broken
Mark Valentine
mark at valentine.me.uk
Sat Nov 1 11:47:41 PST 2003
> From: Matthew Dillon <dillon at xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Sat 1 Nov, 2003
> Subject: Re: snapshots are broken
> No, I meant cross build environments *ON* a DFly system to produce other
> systems.
>
> I am not contemplating the huge effort it would take to cross build
> DragonFly on a non-BSD system. It is Conceivably possible to do, but
> probably not worth the effort when ISO's and snapshots can be made
> readily available.
Indeed such a build system is a large effort (it was worth it for the NetBSD
folks because the requirement to self-host everything was too painful).
However, I mention it because that's what would make it (vaguely) more feasible
to generate a custom Dragonfly kernel in a heterogenous environment.
If I need to build a serial console network install floppy image for a NetBSD
target on a Solaris host or whatever, I can! Except that their release process
creates one for me to grab, so I don't need to... ;-)
Sorry to belabour the point.
Cheers,
Mark.
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