On 7/15/24 14:33, Tomoaki AOKI wrote:
On Mon, 15 Jul 2024 11:58:16 -0700
Colin Percival <cperc...@freebsd.org> wrote:
Extending the minor-release support period might be possible, but that
would depend on portmgr and secteam and I can't speak for them. One issue
which would certainly come up is kernel module packages -- our packages
are built for each stable branch on the oldest currently supported release,
which means that e.g. new features in 14.1 can't be used until 14.0 is EoL;
this is a problem particularly for graphics drivers.
How do you think about flavorizing kmod ports in kmod.mk and provide
pkgs for latest patch release (like 14.0-p8) of all supported
point releases (like 14.0) [1]?
Does it look possible and feasible?
Rebuilding kernel modules for each patch level shouldn't be necessary. If
we break KBI in a security or errata update, something has gone astonishingly
wrong.
Flavouring kernel module ports for each minor release -- possibly building in
in an oldest-supported-release jail but with the relevant /usr/src/sys tree --
might work well? But that's a question for portmgr; I don't know enough about
how package building works to know how feasible this would be.
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Colin Percival
FreeBSD Release Engineering Lead & EC2 platform maintainer
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