Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 14:42:43 +0900 (KST)
From: CHOI Junho <cjh@kr.FreeBSD.org>
To: kris@obsecurity.org
Cc: sobomax@FreeBSD.org, ports@FreeBSD.org, ports-jp@jp.freebsd.org
Subject: Re: {korean,japanese}/msdosfs
Message-ID: <20020524.144243.27837647.cjh@kr.FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020523223446.A10172@xor.obsecurity.org>
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From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Subject: Re: {korean,japanese}/msdosfs
Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 22:34:46 -0700
> On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 02:27:34PM +0900, CHOI Junho wrote:
>
> > > principle I could just add MSDOSFS support to the host kernel, but why
> > > does the korean/msdosfs port need to kldload in the first place?
> >
> > "kldload" is located in "post-install" and "pkg-plist". So it executes
> > "kldload" in the phase of "make package" target to build .tgz.
>
> Yes, but why is it required that the kernel support mounting msdosfs
> partitions in order to install or create the package? I don't see why
> the kldload operation is necessary.
To automatically loading this module - I think it is just for the
convenience of users, to load .ko without calling start script in
${PREFIX}/etc/rc.d. But it's unnecessary...
If the owner of japanese/msdosfs agree, I'll change it not to load
.ko in pkg-plist or post-install.
> Kris
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