From owner-freebsd-current Sat May 30 16:09:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA21408 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 30 May 1998 16:09:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA21393 for ; Sat, 30 May 1998 16:09:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA15630; Sat, 30 May 1998 15:48:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from current1.whistle.com(207.76.205.22) via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpd015612; Sat May 30 22:48:04 1998 Date: Sat, 30 May 1998 15:47:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: Eivind Eklund cc: Luigi Rizzo , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How about /usr/ports/kernel ? In-Reply-To: <19980530182913.04478@follo.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. > ../../*/conf/options.FreeBSD. > 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. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message