Improve filesystem build scripts

maxonthegit / netkit-uml-filesystem

Filesystem image, build files, and docs for usage with Netkit UML virtual machines

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Improve filesystem build scripts #1

Open maxonthegit opened 13 years ago

maxonthegit commented 13 years ago

Filesystem build scripts are currently designed to create a single filesystem image. If a user wants to create an alternative image, she has to remove (or rename/move elsewhere) the existing one before initiating a new build process. The scripts could be improved in order to make creation of different filesystem images easier.

Also check $(<file) statements in the filesystem's Makefile.devel: they do not seem to work.

kartoch commented 13 years ago

I think the simplest idea is the following: $NETKIT_HOME/fs/ contains all fs files, with a link pointing to the default fs. It also contains all filesystems builds, each of one in a directory (for instance $NETKIT_HOME/fs/netkit-uml-filesystem-build/, $NETKIT_HOME/fs/netkit-uml-lenny-filesystem-build/, ...). What do you think ?

maxonthegit commented 13 years ago

Yes, that looks pretty straightforward and effective. Indeed, that was the initial idea that motivated the fact that netkit-fs is currently a symbolic link to the actual filesystem image.