Re: Ipfilter pre-Vendor Import Issue

On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 01:00:02PM -0700, Cy Schubert wrote:
C> > The BSD license allows us to put the code into FreeBSD w/o any separation.
C> > 
C> > So the question is: what is more handy to us?
C> > 
C> > What do we actually gain having contrib/ipf, assuming we got vendor branch
C> > already?
C> > 
C> > What we lose is: 
C> > - more complex Makefiles
C> > - more complex hacking: edit files in one place, run make in other
C> 
C> How is this for a plan?
C> 
C> Instead of importing the kernel bits into vendor-sys/ipfilter and the 
C> userland bits into vendor/ipfilter, the base tarball should be imported 
C> into vendor-sys/ipfilter (or vendor/ipfilter, doesn't matter which). We 
C> keep the complete tarball imported into one place in the tree.

I'd prefer vendor/ipfilter as single place of vendor imports.

C> Merge ipfilter into sys/netpfil/ipfilter (for kernel bits) and 
C> netpfil/ipfilter (for userland bits).
C> 
C> We should probably think of moving pf and ipfw into the new subdirectory as 
C> well, but that's for a future discussion.

No, userland tools should be placed in bin|sbin|usr.bin|usr.sbin,
according to the place where they are installed. An exlusion can be made
adding a intermediate subdir (like this is already done for ipfilter tools),
to group all related tools together.

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