Re: Keymaps in virtual consoles.

2013-09-19 Thread Robert Millan
Mats Erik Andersson: > I stumbled on an interesting phenomenon by a simple > > $ date > > In Swedish, Monday needs "aring", i.e., "0xe5" in Latin1, > and "0xc3 0xa5" with UTF-8, while Saturday and Sunday > need "odiareses", i.e., "0xf6" and "0xc3 0xb6", respecively. > > Now, in a console with

Re: Suggestions from DSA

2013-09-19 Thread Robert Millan
Steven Chamberlain: > Maybe virtio drivers improve things (in kfreebsd-10, also were added in > either 9.1 or 9.2 I think?). Yep. Note the different disk naming scheme (/dev/vtbd[0-9]). In case someone wants to give some try at fixing D-I, I think it just needs patching in two places: - A probin

Re: Deterministic builds

2013-09-19 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On 18/09/13 23:02, Robert Millan wrote: > Upstream does something similar with svn version number. I suggest you > look at newvers.sh, perhaps it can be expanded to support other variables. Thanks. I saw that, and was able to do something similar. The gzipped kernel image now seems to be identic

Re: Suggestions from DSA

2013-09-19 Thread Robert Millan
Steven Chamberlain: > Maybe virtio drivers improve things (in kfreebsd-10, also were added in > either 9.1 or 9.2 I think?). Yep, it's supported in 9.2. As for D-I, I don't think it will work due to different disk naming scheme (/dev/vtbd[0-9]). In case someone wants to give some try at fixing D

Re: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing

2013-09-19 Thread Daniel Pocock
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 I'm particularly keen to see communication packages working on as many architectures as possible because otherwise two-way communications opportunities are missed if some users are excluded. In short, I'm not formally volunteering, but if people

Re: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing (Status update)

2013-09-19 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 10:38:29AM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: > Here is a little status update on the mails we have received so far. > First off, thanks to all the porters who have already replied! > > So far, the *no one* has stepped up to back the following architectures: > >hurd-i386 >

Re: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing

2013-09-19 Thread Svante Signell
On Sun, 2013-09-01 at 09:33 +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: Hi, I am an active porter for the following architectures and I intend to continue this for the lifetime of the jessie release: For hurd-i386, I - test most packages on this architecture - fix toolchain issues - triage arch-specific bugs - f

Re: Keymaps in virtual consoles.

2013-09-19 Thread Mats Erik Andersson
Hello all, fredag den 13 september 2013 klockan 23:38 skrev Steven Chamberlain detta: > On 13/09/13 22:20, Steven Chamberlain wrote: > > There is a visible effect of changing layout (like german.iso changes to > qwertz layout, fr.iso to azerty, and swedish.iso > > There's some visible effect (li

Re: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing

2013-09-19 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hi! I'm not a DD or DM, but an upstream contributor and maintainer for the toolchain, both for different things at work, and in my free time for the Hurd. I have no plans to stop this, so this will cover the jessie lifetime. As time permits, I also work on the Hurd itself, and advise contributor

Re: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing (Status update)

2013-09-19 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-09-01 09:33, Niels Thykier wrote: > Hi, > > As we announced in [LAST-BITS], we would like to get a better idea of > that status of the ports, to make an informed decision about which > port can be released with jessie. One of the steps is to get an > overview of which of the porters are (s