Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 20:33:27 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: "Claus Guttesen" <kometen@gmail.com> Cc: Volodymyr Kostyrko <c.kworr@gmail.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RFC: moving sysutils/fusefs-kmod to base system Message-ID: <200809022033.41657.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <b41c75520809020255l790ff91cyd0fb3e1650bb1cdb@mail.gmail.com> References: <48BB4FEB.1050906@gmail.com> <200809021912.38401.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <b41c75520809020255l790ff91cyd0fb3e1650bb1cdb@mail.gmail.com>
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--nextPart2462860.TtqyxuQP5z Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Tue, 2 Sep 2008, Claus Guttesen wrote: > > This has several advantages > > - You don't upgrade the port unless you want to when building a > > kernel. - If the kernel API changes you find out because the port > > doesn't compile then you can make an informed decision. > > - You don't need a working network connection to rebuild your > > kernel. > > > > </soapbox> > > By ports do you mean the ports-system? If that's the case you're I mean something in /usr/ports. > mixing the basesystem with applications. The separation of basesystem > and apps is IMO one of BSD's strength. Why not use portupgrade for > that purpose? Then why allow ports to create & install KLDs at all? This would cause /usr/src to reference an outside source (ie somewhere=20 in LOCALBASE where KLD source would be) but since the user already=20 opted to install a port KLD it seems reasonable. I did get told that in theory you shouldn't need to rebuild port KLDs on=20 a release branch because the ABI shouldn't change.. That's a bit=20 unsatisfactory because people run -current where this guarantee doesn't=20 apply, and it isn't an iron-clad guarantee anyway :) Basically it seems to me that it would have no drawbacks and prevent=20 people from forgetting to recompile stuff which could hose them down=20 the track.. =2D-=20 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 - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart2462860.TtqyxuQP5z Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBIvR2N5ZPcIHs/zowRAu3mAKCL5TCLOYyEvzMgysO/bbZpAP5kAgCdGFBX xMifgQH1sPZoVpBjk+8aAdk= =DGXz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2462860.TtqyxuQP5z--
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