On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 14:14, M. Warner Losh wrote: > : I think PORTS_MODULES is a little suboptimal.. > > How so?
If you upgrade your ports tree and then rebuild your kernel you may upgrade a port KLD without wanting to. > : Fx5200 Go). It also means that the kernel build/install does not result > : in non kernel things being altered. > > How do your patches work? http://www.dons.net.au/~darius/port-kld.diff http://www.dons.net.au/~darius/port-makefile.txt (Rename the later to Makefile and put it in /usr/local/kld) It hooks into /usr/src/sys/modules/Makfile and looks for module directories to build in a certain directory. It [is supposed to] acts like another subdirectory of /usr/src/sys/modules. > Do they work with multiple kernel trees? I am pretty sure it does but I haven't explicitly tested it - certainly the source directory doesn't get dirtied by builds. > I guess I'm a little unclear why this is better or worse than > PORTS_MODULES. I guess I'm missing the explicit step, since I only > ever update the parts of my ports tree that I'm upgrading with > portupgrade. Ahh.. I NFS mount my ports tree between a bunch of machines they all have WRKDIRPREFIX, and the ports tree is updated each day using cvsup. I don't think this is an uncommon setup but I don't have any evidence. > : Also speaking of KLD ports.. I really wish they wouldn't install > : into /boot/modules (I patch so they don't) as it is a really good way to > : shoot yourself in the foot during an upgrade :( > > Usually this is only a problem when tracking or jumping to current, > but I understand... Yeah usually, but I have had it happen in -stable too (very rare). Even so it can be a pretty big waste of time as a developer when you're tracking current ;) -- 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
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