Subject: Re: Handling firmware versions
To: None <tech-pkg@netbsd.org, tech-kern@netbsd.org>
From: Quentin Garnier <cube@cubidou.net>
List: tech-kern
Date: 07/18/2007 22:23:14
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On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 09:33:18PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 09:31:03PM +0200, Quentin Garnier wrote:
> > The way we handle firmwares in pkgsrc is just wrong.  We should have
> > only one package, that installs all the versions the kernel could
> > possibly ask for (which means the kernel asks for a specific version).
>=20
> Keep in mind that the firmware images are not only used by NetBSD.
> Please carefully consider this before changing any policy...

There's a policy?  I'd actually like to set one...

--=20
Quentin Garnier - cube@cubidou.net - cube@NetBSD.org
"You could have made it, spitting out benchmarks
Owe it to yourself not to fail"
Amplifico, Spitting Out Benchmarks, Hometakes Vol. 2, 2005.

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