On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 10:48:54PM +0200, Axel Beckert wrote: > Hi Aurelien, > > reply just to debian-bsd, as it's more about how to fix the mentioned > bugs. > > Aurelien Jarno wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 07:52:52PM +0200, Axel Beckert wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > * ALSA: Many ALSA dependent packages not working/building/available. > > > (There is a limited emulation layer called SALSA, but either many > > > packages don't work with it or nobody tried to get them working with > > > it. Not sure how many unfixed bugs because of this are still open.) > > > > > > > A lot of the packages have OSS support (with BTW is a lot better on > > FreeBSD than it uses to be on Linux). We definitely shoudl try to avoid > > this emulation layer when possible, as it is limited and often introduce > > bugs. > > Ok, so the main focus here is to get the packages which are compiled > with ALSA to compile without ALSA or with OSS instead on kbsd (and > hurd probably, too). > > > > Some smaller issues I noticed only happening on kfreebsd, but haven't > > > tracked them down (probably no bug report yet either, partially also > > > affects servers): > > > > > > * Emacs 23 via remote X doesn't work. No idea why yet. > > > > > > * aptitude segfaults approximately every second or third call. (That's > > > much better than months ago where I was used to start aptitude with > > > "until aptitude; do sleep 0.1; done") > > > > The problem with this kind of issues is that we are now aware of it. > > So we'd better not aware of it? Or did I just misunderstand that > sentence? I think the problem is that there's not yet a proper bug > report (besides the bugs itself being a problem, too :-).
No my point is that it's not possible to fix bugs when we don't even now they exist. > > [...] aptitude works perfectly on my machine since the crash issue > > has been fixed. > > Do you use it just on the commandline (e.g. "aptitude safe-upgrade" or > in interactive (text-mode/[n]curses interface) mode (e.g. "aptitude > -u")? I don't use it very often, but I am using it mostly for the curses interface, never got this problem. Is it on kfreebsd-i386? kfreebsd-amd64? Note that I am using the unstable version, not the experimental one. Cheers, Aurelien -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 aurel...@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bsd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100805034036.gd2...@ohm.aurel32.net
