Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 21:17:17 +0100 From: Gary Jennejohn <gary.jennejohn@freenet.de> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports .ko installation directory Message-ID: <20080207211717.246e263a@peedub.jennejohn.org> In-Reply-To: <20080207174107.GA94398@dragon.NUXI.org> References: <20080207174107.GA94398@dragon.NUXI.org>
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On Thu, 7 Feb 2008 09:41:07 -0800 "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> wrote: > Do we have a standard for where .ko modules should be installed? > > I've found the sysutils/pmap port to be pretty cool - I almost think we > should bring it into the base system. > Anyway, it installs into /boot/kernel (unless MODULES_WITH_WORLD is > defined), which to me is just wrong. What if I've named mine /boot/foo? > Its perfectly reasonable. /boot/<KERNEL> is for a kernel build. > > Looking around it seems most (all other?) ports install into > /boot/modules. I really don't like the inconsistency - if I have to > reinstall all my Ports .ko's after installing a new kernel than so be it. > But it should be the case for all - not making it so I have to remember > to do it for only one or two. > > Not being sure what the vast majority of Ports maintainers/developers use, > I wanted to check if /boot/modules was our de-facto standard or something > else. > It seems that three ports use %D/modules and ten explicitly use /boot/modules in pkg-plist. I didn't look at Makefiles or shell scripts. I personally think that only ports (like nvidia-driver) which need to be loaded from loader.conf should be in /boot/modules. --- Gary Jennejohn
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