cvs commit: ports/net Makefile ports/net/bwi-firmware-kmod Makefile distinfo pkg-descr pkg-plist

[Ion-Mihai Tetcu]

On Sun, 10 May 2009 15:05:17 -0500
Scot Hetzel <swhetzel at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 11:20 AM,  <QAT at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > ================================================================
> > ====================<phase 6: make install>====================
> > add_pkg
> > ===>  Installing for bwi-firmware-kmod-3.130.20
> > ===>   Generating temporary packing list
> > ===>  Checking if net/bwi-firmware-kmod already installed
> > install -o root -g wheel -m 555   bwi_v3_ucode.ko /boot/modules
> > kldxref /boot/modules
> > ===>   Registering installation for bwi-firmware-kmod-3.130.20
> > ================================================================
> > ====================<phase 7: make package>====================
> > ===>  Building package for bwi-firmware-kmod-3.130.20
> > Creating package /tmp/packages/All/bwi-firmware-kmod-3.130.20.tbz
> > Registering depends:.
> > Creating bzip'd tar ball in
> > '/tmp/packages/All/bwi-firmware-kmod-3.130.20.tbz' Deleting
> > bwi-firmware-kmod-3.130.20
> > ================================================================
> >
> > === Checking filesystem state
> > list of extra files and directories in / (not present before this
> > port was installed but present after it was deinstalled) 33067887
> >      4 -rw-r--r--    1 root             wheel                  88
> > May 10 16:20 boot/modules/linker.hints
> > ================================================================
> 
> This shouldn't be flaged as an mtree error.  The reason that
> linker.hints was left behind is due to this file is generated by
> kldxref.  The port/package runs kldxref during the install of the
> firmware module to update the existing or create a linker.hints file,
> and when the package is removed, it runs kldxref again to clean up the
> linker.hints file to only contain the modules in /boot/modules.  It
> has no way to know if it is safe to remove this file.
> 
> Should Kernel Modules be running kldxref in /boot/modules?
> 
> Should I change the port to have a do-install target that installs the
> bwi firmware kernel module so that it doesn't run kldxref during the
> install?

No, I don't think so; we should teach tindy to ignore this file.


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