Date: Wed, 20 May 2020 16:46:19 -0700 From: Pete Wright <pete@nomadlogic.org> To: Grzegorz Junka <list1@gjunka.com>, freebsd-pkgbase@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The new graphics ports and pkg-base Message-ID: <db7422c7-c050-9134-f777-26eb342eca40@nomadlogic.org> In-Reply-To: <dc76dace-03db-ac9f-2874-c7f6392c4242@gjunka.com> References: <eacb782c-8f6c-0ee8-cb6d-dbcb16a75fc6@gjunka.com> <f9e40b92-7163-2e9c-090e-2dbde227d5fe@nomadlogic.org> <dc76dace-03db-ac9f-2874-c7f6392c4242@gjunka.com>
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On 5/20/20 3:44 PM, Grzegorz Junka wrote: > On 20/05/2020 17:30, Pete Wright wrote: >> >> >> On 5/20/20 12:45 AM, Grzegorz Junka wrote: >>> I am trying to understand the impact of distributing ports with >>> sources on building and packaging base with pkg. >>> >>> If I understand correctly, some ports, when installed with pkg, >>> extract sources, which then supposed to be compiled with the kernel. >>> >>> For instance, drm-current-kmod extracts lots of files into >>> /usr/local/sys/modules/ >> >> hrm I am not seeing that behavior on my end: >> $ pkg list drm-devel-kmod >> /boot/modules/amdgpu.ko >> /boot/modules/drm.ko >> /boot/modules/i915kms.ko >> /boot/modules/linuxkpi_gplv2.ko >> /boot/modules/radeonkms.ko >> /boot/modules/ttm.ko >> /boot/modules/vboxvideo.ko >> /boot/modules/vmwgfx.ko >> /usr/local/share/licenses/drm-devel-kmod-5.2.g20200515/BSD2CLAUSE >> /usr/local/share/licenses/drm-devel-kmod-5.2.g20200515/GPLv2 >> /usr/local/share/licenses/drm-devel-kmod-5.2.g20200515/LICENSE >> /usr/local/share/licenses/drm-devel-kmod-5.2.g20200515/MIT >> /usr/local/share/licenses/drm-devel-kmod-5.2.g20200515/catalog.mk >> $ >> >> maybe i'm missing something though and this behavior only happens on >> systems using pkg-base? i believe there was some discussion about >> bundling the required source to build drm-kmod locally in a similar >> fashion as linux dkms, but i'm not sure if that's progressed. > > > Have a look at this commit (comments and the pkg-plist): > https://reviews.freebsd.org/D20990 > > Also here > https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports/blob/master/graphics/drm-current-kmod/pkg-plist > > There is also the following comment in an email titled "drm drivers > project report (week of May 4th)" which "Emmanuel Vadot" posted to > freebsd-current and freebsd-x11: > > > As the drm-kmod ports install the sources in the system a kernel > > compilation will rebuild those modules and install them in /boot/kernel > > whereas using https://github.com/freebsd/drm-kmod/ will install > > everything in /boot/modules > > I am not sure about drm-devel-kmod but I can confirm that a binary > drm-current-kmod does contain sources and installs them when the port > is installed. You can see those files in the commit I posted above. > i am sorry, i had misread which version of the kmod you were referring to. i am not sure why this is not implemented on the drm-devel-kmod port. for this specific port it may be worth pinging the freebsd-x11@ mailing list as they would be able to provide more insight into this change. -pete -- Pete Wright pete@nomadlogic.org @nomadlogicLA
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