[MOM] some feed back on makeDist

[ted bonkenburg]

Well, I tried to send this message to Ihar, but it bounced (as did the 
one I sent before) and I figure it might be useful for others as well:

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Hi Ihar,

Thanks for the comments.

1. Yes, I was too lazy to get rid of SCCS directories in makeDist :-)

2. The 'scripts' directory is actually my own set of scripts.  I was 
actually
going to take that out of the version of makeDist that I posted but 
realized it
was harmless.   The scripts I am talking about here are vm_* and mod_* 
found in
Mom.app/Contents/MacOS.

3. You can't choose an .iso image right now because I didn't have time 
to test
it.  I kind of promised the list I would post something, and then I 
decided at
the last minute to add CD detection and the .iso option.  Well, come 
1:30 AM or
so I was rather tired and figured I'd save something for people to look 
forward
to in the next release :-)

4. You can't create linux and os x virtual machines because I haven't 
gotten
them working.  As soon as I get one working you can be sure I'll add it 
to Mom
right away and make a very happy post to this mailing list.  You can 
see that
my patch to mol is small because the port to os x was in progress by the
original author.  There is still a lot I need to understand to get 
other os's
working.  I'm actually trying to get networking working on os9 so at 
least I
can call that fairly finished.

5. I think I'll just keep posting on the mol list for now, so just 
watch that if
you are interested.

6.  As a Linux -> Mac switcher, I too miss the additional options and 
features of some of the gnu tools.  I'm sure I could get them from 
Fink, but for now I'm content with learning the bsd-ish tools for 
something new.

Thanks again.

ted

Quoting Ihar:

>
>    In Mom.app GUI it is impossible to choose iso image as a CDROM.
>
>    And well, it is impossible to specify Linux as guest OS. ;(   What 
> is
> the problem, which makes MoM unable to use OSX & Linux as guest OSs?
>
> P.S. Is there any mail list for MoM? or shall I monitor MoL lists for
> your announcements?
>
> Ihar wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>>   Thanks for doing MOM!
>>
>>   I have tryed to run you script and seems to did everything Ok. But
>> during copy - your script copies directories recursively. So when I 
>> use
>> bk copy of development tree, script copies bk's SCCS files too. Not
>> critical - but.
>>
>>   last thing - `ls scripts` - in makeDist fails for obvious reason:
>> makeDist doesn't do "cd $SRC". so `ls $SRC/scripts` must be there. "cp
>> scripts/" must be too corrected. And scripts directory contains not 
>> only
>> scrpts... (`find $SRC/scripts -type f -perm -0111 | sed
>> "s|^$SRC/scripts//*||"` - hm? - it just worked for me)
>>
>>   And for the clueless users like I'm it would be nice to point to
>> existing vm - so I will be able to run vm_start right after. I have
>> found vm_create script. Went reading docs, what vm is.
>>
>>   I bet all this little stuff already fixed - then just ignore the 
>> message.
>>
>>   have fun and thanks.
>>
>> P.S. Is it only me who find BSD file/test utils (after using GNU ones)
>> brain damaging??? I have spend some time guessing that find's -perm 
>> does
>> *NOT* accept symbols - only octals... (man find refers to man chmod
>> which obviously has symbols a-la -ax). I'm not talking about mandatory
>> directory specification as first argument.
>>
>
>