kldutils

[Guillem Jover]

Hi,

On Sun, Jul 31, 2005 at 12:55:16AM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> I just uploaded/committed kldutils.  This package is the equivalent of
> module-init-tools for kFreeBSD.  It's much simpler though.  It contains the
> kld* module utilities themselves (which are to be removed from freebsd-utils
> now), plus an init.d script to load module on startup.

It's missing kldxref from (usr/sbin/), needed to generate the
linker.hints file at kernel build time, and used afterwards by the
freebsd boot loader and the kernel itself when loading modules,
otherwise we get a nasty warning.

> If a package needs a particular module to be loaded (e.g. pf or nmap),
> it can add this module to the file in postinst and remove it in postrm.

No, packages cannot touch conffiles from other packages, I would
suggest adding a /etc/kldutils.d/ or similar so other packages can add
a file there that will read when autoloading modules.

regards,
guillem