From owner-freebsd-config Wed Mar 3 2: 6:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-config@freebsd.org Received: from caladan.tdx.co.uk (caladan.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA64214F45; Wed, 3 Mar 1999 02:06:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kpielorz@tdx.co.uk) Received: from tdx.co.uk (lorca-tx.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.242]) by caladan.tdx.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA19654; Wed, 3 Mar 1999 10:05:50 GMT Message-ID: <36DD097D.C102C656@tdx.co.uk> Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 10:05:49 +0000 From: Karl Pielorz Organization: TDX - The Digital eXchange X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steven Young Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-config@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: menuconfig References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-config@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Steven Young wrote: > Hiya. Although this doesn't seem like quite the right list to mail this > to, I'm sending it here for lack of a better alternative.. Theres always freebsd-config? :) (as cc'd) > Anyway, I've started work on a visual ncurses-based kernel config file > editor. Therefore, I was wondering, is this a duplication of effort? Is > there already something out there that does this? It was discussed a while ago... I myself even starting working on something similar, but the company I work for decided it was cheaper to pay me to maintain their boxes, than it was to have my time taken up writing something that meant other people could maintain them :( > If not, my basic plan is just to have something that looks a lot like > the visual boot-time config editor where the user adds everything s/he > wants from the "inactive" list to the "active" and eventually the utility > in question spits out a file. Sounds good... How are you going to handle keeping it up to date etc? - as FreeBSD changes? (or bits of it change, e.g. Sendmail versions etc.) :) -Kp To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-config" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-config Wed Mar 3 2:18:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-config@freebsd.org Received: from ninsei.com (24.64.9.93.ab.wave.home.com [24.64.9.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A9DF915514 for ; Wed, 3 Mar 1999 02:18:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dreamer@freelow.ninsei.com) Received: (qmail 5354 invoked by uid 1001); 3 Mar 1999 03:33:43 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 3 Mar 1999 03:33:43 -0000 Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1999 20:33:43 -0700 (MST) From: Steven Young To: Karl Pielorz Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-config@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: menuconfig In-Reply-To: <36DD097D.C102C656@tdx.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-config@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, Karl Pielorz wrote: > > If not, my basic plan is just to have something that looks a lot like > > the visual boot-time config editor where the user adds everything s/he > > wants from the "inactive" list to the "active" and eventually the utility > > in question spits out a file. > > Sounds good... How are you going to handle keeping it up to date etc? - as > FreeBSD changes? (or bits of it change, e.g. Sendmail versions etc.) :) Well, what I was actually meaning was a kernel configuration utility, not an overall system configuration utility. My general plan is to have spec file of some sort that describes all the different options that can be in the config file and how they relate to each other. Thus, when a new option is added to the kernel, you just have to add a couple of lines to the spec file and voila. Steve (my first 10 minutes running qmail - hope this gets through!) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-config" in the body of the message From owner-freebsd-config Wed Mar 3 2:43:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-config@freebsd.org Received: from caladan.tdx.co.uk (caladan.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EAE314F20 for ; Wed, 3 Mar 1999 02:43:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kpielorz@tdx.co.uk) Received: from tdx.co.uk (lorca-tx.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.242]) by caladan.tdx.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA32239; Wed, 3 Mar 1999 10:42:43 GMT Message-ID: <36DD1223.9B5C6B11@tdx.co.uk> Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 10:42:43 +0000 From: Karl Pielorz Organization: TDX - The Digital eXchange X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steven Young Cc: freebsd-config@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: menuconfig References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-config@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Steven Young wrote: > Well, what I was actually meaning was a kernel configuration utility, > not an overall system configuration utility. My general plan is to have > spec file of some sort that describes all the different options that can > be in the config file and how they relate to each other. Thus, when a new > option is added to the kernel, you just have to add a couple of lines to > the spec file and voila. > > Steve (my first 10 minutes running qmail - hope this gets through!) Hi, OK - I thought you were referring to 'system config'... I still like the Kernel config idea though! :-) Again, the only problem I can see is making sure it stays up to date... I guess for -release versions it's not too bad, but staying current with -current could be fun :-) Still sounds like a good idea though! -Kp To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-config" in the body of the message