Florent Thoumie

It’s been quite a long time since my last post.

Lately I’ve been working on some quite different parts of FreeBSD. I’ve added some USB quirks and MFC’ed them to RELENG_(4|5|6) (breaking RELENG_4). Since I found the process of MFC’ing something quite painful and I couldn’t found a nice script to do the easy part, I finally wrote one in perl. It’s quite ugly but it just works. Some FreeBSD people seemed to be interested so that’s cool. Anyway it’s here. I’m dealing with netchild to add it to src/tools/tools/mfc/ where there are already some MFC tools.

Some days ago, I submitted a patch to rc@ for rc.d/ldconfig to support ldconfig directories. In clear, ports that add their libraries in some unusual directories install ldconfig startup scripts often named 000.${UNIQUENAME}.sh in ${PREFIX}/etc/rc.d/. With this new support, instead of installing a script, they just have to install a file in ${PREFIX}/libdata/ldconfig via USE_LDCONFIG. The patch ldconfig_compat port. It is currently using a bsd.ldconfig.mk file, but the patch for bsd.port.mk is ready for submission.

For some days I’ve been compiling USB quirks in my perforce workspace, I’ll soon submit the first batch of changes to my USB branch. I’ve been talking with iedowse and he seems quite ok to add these once there are ready. Hopefully, 6.1-RELEASE will have a lot of new umass.c and scsi_da.c quirks, being a good thing for pendrives / usb hard drives / whatever usb device users.

Someone on hackers@ asked for a way to use pkg_add to only fetch packages without installing them. Not really providing a fetchonly option, I’ve added an option to save downloaded packages (-K), so that using pkg_add -nrK foo should do the trick.

Later today I tried kbdmap -r (while trying to figure out a way to set the console keymap without using sysinstall) and found out that it crashed, so I committed a quick fix (for a simple problem).

Finally I updated the FreeBSD/ppc page and submitted the update for the french translation to blackend.

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