Re: A Demo of rust-in-base

On Sun, Aug 4, 2024 at 12:20 PM Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:
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> Alan Somers writes:
> > On Sun, Aug 4, 2024 at 12:00=E2=80=AFPM Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:
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> > If it weren't for my experience with CTL, I would say no.
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> > But CTL stuff _cannot_ exist in the ports tree, since the ioctl interface is unstable.
> > Similarly, stuff like the fusefs test suite can't exist in the ports tree, either.
> > It needs to be updated in lock-step with even minor kernel changes.
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> How is that different from any other dependency management in ports ?

Because those two components need to be updated in lock-step with
potentially any git commit to the base system.  Not just official
releases, even minor ones.