From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 28 16:47:39 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A19637B401 for ; Wed, 28 May 2003 16:47:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D638B43F75 for ; Wed, 28 May 2003 16:47:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.12.9/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h4SNlMgD003053; Thu, 29 May 2003 09:17:24 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: "M. Warner Losh" Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 09:17:21 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <200305281447.02322.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <200305281547.13876.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <20030528.031114.56977314.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <20030528.031114.56977314.imp@bsdimp.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200305290917.21863.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -1.5 () CARRIAGE_RETURNS,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01,USER_AGENT X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.16 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) cc: q_dolan@yahoo.com.au cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: policy on GPL'd drivers? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 23:47:39 -0000 On Wed, 28 May 2003 18:41, M. Warner Losh wrote: > : > the machine that built it, and not potentially somewhere else? What > : > about sysinstall upgrades that don't require src? > : > : Well, I am not 100% sure how the module building process works, but some > : analog of how it happens for things in sys/modules would be nice.. > > That is what is happening for the ports (or was last time I looked). In general yes, the ports are written like that, but I think rebuilding it directly from installed sources makes more sense. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5