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Date:      Wed, 5 Feb 2003 15:15:33 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk>
To:        =?iso-8859-1?Q?Erik_Paulsen_Sk=E5lerud?= <erik@pentadon.com>
Cc:        'Gunnar Flygt' <gunnar.flygt@sr.se>, 'Kirill Ponomarew' <ponomarew@oberon.net>, freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: error making new kernel
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.44.0302051513410.26556-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <000b01c2cd13$0590bec0$0a00000a@yes.no>

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On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, [iso-8859-1] Erik Paulsen Sk=E5lerud wrote:

> This is a pretty frequent question that I see alot of on the lists and
> in different FreeBSD-channels on IRC.
>
> Perhaps someone should implent some kind of kernel-config checker that
> sees over the config and tells the user if something important is
> missing (like scsbus and da if you're going to use umass).
> I am sure that there are several other things it could check aswell.
>
> I'd love to make one myself, the only problem is that I don't know
> enough about shell-scripting to do this.

If you're planning on spending the effort on this, teaching config to
properly understand dependencies would win you more brownie-points.

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