config(8) patch

Andrew Thompson thompsa at FreeBSD.org
Sat Nov 22 12:17:06 PST 2008


On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 09:08:57PM +0100, Max Laier wrote:
> On Saturday 22 November 2008 20:17:44 Andrew Thompson wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> > I wanted to use the following in my kernel config file so wrote a patch
> > for it.
> >
> >  makeoptions MODULES_OVERRIDE=foo
> >  makeoptions MODULES_OVERRIDE+=bar
> >  makeoptions MODULES_OVERRIDE+=baz
> >
> >  http://people.freebsd.org/~thompsa/config_append.diff
> >
> > I am unsure if the config version needs to be bumped for a minor change
> > like this. Can anyone clarify?
> 
> From my reading of the comments in configvers.h you should bump the minor 
> version.  You should, however, *not* bump the %VERSREQ in any Makefiles - this 
> would allow people to use an old config as long as they don't use your new 
> addition.

I think you are right, I have bumped from 600006 to 600007.

cheers,
Andrew


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