From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Apr 6 08:02:20 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA28579 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 6 Apr 1997 08:02:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA28565 for ; Sun, 6 Apr 1997 08:02:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (herring.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.2]) by nlsystems.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id QAA08880; Sun, 6 Apr 1997 16:00:51 +0100 (BST) Date: Sun, 6 Apr 1997 16:00:51 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: proff@suburbia.net cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ipfilter compilation In-Reply-To: <19970406141502.6463.qmail@suburbia.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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