Date: Sun, 6 Apr 1997 16:00:51 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: proff@suburbia.net Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ipfilter compilation Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970406160029.654J-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <19970406141502.6463.qmail@suburbia.net>
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On Mon, 7 Apr 1997 proff@suburbia.net wrote: > > As proff@suburbia.net wrote: > > > > > I don't see that outside references are a problem, provided the > > > user is kept aware of them. > > > > That's probably the best solution to handle src/contrib code for > > kernel-land, yes. But it makes packaging the distributions harder. > > Right now, it's sufficient to install the `ssys' distribution if you > > wanna rebuild your kernel. If we simply reference through > > ../../contrib in sys/conf/files, this will require the luser to > > install the entire contrib distribution bloat as it stands now. > > > > -- > > cheers, J"org > > Anyone object to src/sys_contrib then? In cases like ipfilter it > would still contain user-land kernel support code, but this would > be quite reasonable size-wise compared to src/contrib. I would prefer src/sys/contrib. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 951 1891
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