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haad c9d0c62a0c Merge the haad-dm branch to -current. This branch adds LVM functionality to the base NetBSD system. It uses Linux LVM2 tools and our BSD licensed device-mapper driver. The device-mapper driver can be used to create virtual block devices which maps virtual blocks to real with target mapping called target. Currently these targets are available a linear, zero, error and a snapshot (this is work in progress and doesn't work yet). The lvm2tools adds lvm and dmsetup binary to based system, where the lvm tool is used to manage and administer whole LVM and the dmestup is used to communicate iwith device-mapper kernel driver. With these tools also a libdevmapper library is instaled to the base system. Building of tools and driver is currently disable and can be enabled with MKLVM=yes in mk.conf. I will add sets lists and rc.d script soon. Oked by agc@ and cube@.		2008-12-19 15:24:03 +00:00
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bsd	Add -lutil to allow linking to find the e-functions.	2008-12-13 12:21:50 +00:00
gpl2	Merge the haad-dm branch to -current. This branch adds LVM functionality to	2008-12-19 15:24:03 +00:00
intel-fw-eula	Add glue to ship Intel firmware images. For ipw and iwi require user to	2008-10-30 00:27:31 +00:00
intel-fw-public	Switch to the correct second generation wpi(4) firmware.	2008-11-07 15:18:24 +00:00
lib	Hook up libfetch and pkg_install update.	2008-10-02 17:54:51 +00:00
mit/xorg	Move the build of libXi back to a point where libXext is definitely	2008-12-12 19:59:52 +00:00
Makefile	Merge the haad-dm branch to -current. This branch adds LVM functionality to	2008-12-19 15:24:03 +00:00
README	Add glue to ship Intel firmware images. For ipw and iwi require user to	2008-10-30 00:27:31 +00:00

README

$NetBSD: README,v 1.5 2008/10/30 00:27:31 joerg Exp $

Organization of Sources:

This directory hierarchy is using an organization that separates
source for programs that we have obtained from external third
parties (where NetBSD is not the primary maintainer) from the
system source.

The hierarchy is grouped by license, and then package per license,
and is organized as follows:

	external/

	    Makefile
			Descend into the license sub-directories.

	    <license>/
			Per-license sub-directories.

		Makefile
			Descend into the package sub-directories.

		<package>/
			Per-package sub-directories.

		    Makefile
			Build the package.
			
		    dist/
			The third-party source for a given package.

		    bin/
		    lib/
		    sbin/
			BSD makefiles "reach over" from these into
			"../dist/".

This arrangement allows for packages to be easily disabled or
excised as necessary, either on a per-license or per-package basis.

The licenses currently used are:

	bsd		BSD (or equivalent) licensed software, possibly with
			the "advertising clause".

	gpl2		GNU Public License, version 2 (or earlier).

	intel-fw-oem	Intel firmware license with redistribution
			restricted to OEM.

	intel-fw-public	Intel firmware license permitting redistribution with
			terms similiar to BSD licensed software.

	mit		MIT (X11) style license.

If a package has components covered by different licenses
(for example, GPL2 and the LGPL), use the <license> subdirectory
for the more restrictive license.

If a package allows the choice of a license to use, we'll
generally use the less restrictive license.

If in doubt about where a package should be located, please
contact <core@NetBSD.org> for advice.


Migration Strategy:


Eventually src/dist (and associated framework in other base source
directories) and src/gnu will be migrated to this hierarchy.


Maintenance Strategy:

The sources under src/external/<license>/<package>/dist/ are
generally a combination of a published distribution plus changes
that we submit to the maintainers and that are not yet published
by them.

Make sure all changes made to the external sources are submitted
to the appropriate maintainer, but only after coordinating with
the NetBSD maintainers.