tech-pkg: Re: How to build a kernel with arc4

Subject: Re: How to build a kernel with arc4_setkey and friends in it?
To: Andrew Reilly <andrew-netbsd@areilly.bpc-users.org>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 02/19/2005 21:27:16

In message <20050220001047.GA86098@gurney.reilly.home>, Andrew Reilly writes:


>
>> Alternatively, you could hack sys/conf/files to make some driver you already
>> need fake-depend on arc4. This should perhaps be documented in the MPPE
>> package?
>
>True, but such a change would be blown away by my next cvs
>update, whereas a tweak to my own kernel config file is safe.
>

If you do a 'cvs update', it will merge your changes with the system 
changes.

		--Prof. Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb