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Date:      Sat, 30 May 1998 15:47:59 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
To:        Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>
Cc:        Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How about /usr/ports/kernel ?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95.980530154641.10304B-100000@current1.whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <19980530182913.04478@follo.net>

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you know, I was thinking very similar things..
As you know I've been adding stuff but some of it gets added a little
earlier than it should because there is no real alternative.


On Sat, 30 May 1998, Eivind Eklund wrote:

> On Sat, May 30, 1998 at 03:46:04PM +0200, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> > Just looking backward, i realize that i am doing a lot of work
> > on the kernel, and so are others. So, how about adding a new port
> > category, /usr/ports/kernel, where one can find various kernel
> > enhancements etc which for any reason did not find their way in the
> > main source tree ?
> > 
> > That would accommodate the following things:
> > 
> [...]
> > 
> > Comments ?
> 
> I think it might be a good idea, but this would require us to find a
> good way to add things to the kernel.
> 
> My own view of this is that config(8) should scan for
> 	../../*/conf/files.FreeBSD
> 	../../*/conf/options.FreeBSD
> 	../../*/conf/files.FreeBSD.<architecture>
> 	../../*/conf/options.FreeBSD.<architecture>
> add concatenate this with the appropriate files.
> 
> This would allow us to add a new subsystem (like i4b) by just adding a
> new subdir to the kernel.
> 
> For some ports we would of course need to add extra kernel hooks, but
> this at least solve the easy cases.
> 
> What do people think?
> 
> Eivind.
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