Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 09:22:47 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org> To: Darren Reed <darrenr@reed.wattle.id.au> Cc: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: misc/44148: installworld in 4.7-STABLE does not install IPFilter related header files Message-ID: <20030425062247.GE32731@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <200304250554.PAA03475@avalon.reed.wattle.id.au> References: <20030424192427.GA71112@sunbay.com> <200304250554.PAA03475@avalon.reed.wattle.id.au>
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--EXKGNeO8l0xGFBjy Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 03:54:32PM +1000, Darren Reed wrote: > In some email I received from Ruslan Ermilov, sie wrote: >=20 > Checking application/pgp-signature: FAILURE > -- Start of PGP signed section. > > On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 04:18:45AM +1000, Darren Reed wrote: > > > In some email I received from Ruslan Ermilov, sie wrote: > > > > In the SHARED=3Dsymlinks case, /usr/include/netinet is > > > > the symlink to /usr/src/sys/netinet. Hope this now > > > > makes more sense. > > >=20 > > > Is there any reason to not create a real /usr/include/netinet > > > and then populate _that_ directory with symbolic links to each > > > of the files, individually ? This should preserve the semantics > > > of what "symlinks" is about. > > >=20 > > The original purpose of "symlinks" was to provide symlinks > > to /sys sources, it's the so-called "developer's mode", so > > one doesn't need to worry about if he changes/adds/deletes > > a header. > >=20 > > We could create /usr/include/contrib/ipfilter/netinet, and > > that will be consistent with kern.pre.mk. Those that need > > it would just add -I/usr/include/contrib/ipfilter. How is > > this? >=20 > Well, at least it helps ports get things from <netinet/*> include > lines. So this problem only appears to affect people using /usr/src > more "heavily" than the standard user that will install FreeBSD and > get a /usr/include/netinet populated with all the correct files ? >=20 I know many developers (not necessarily committers) still use SHARED=3Dsymlinks, so we need to make sure that both symlinks and copies give the same set of include files. > I can see that moving IPFilter include files to /usr/include/ipfilter > at some point in the future will be an even better solution - but > not just yet. >=20 Yes, maybe, this would work too. So I take it as if you don't object if I create /usr/include/contrib for now, and put ipfilter/ there, to deal with this PR? Cheers, --=20 Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age --EXKGNeO8l0xGFBjy Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+qNQ2Ukv4P6juNwoRAs/YAJ9GTr3UYRhXjVXYrxm8W3YKcD5O3gCggLqo fjRScFiBl3prRyhIpTy02lw= =JHem -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --EXKGNeO8l0xGFBjy--
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