Re: Plan B for kfreebsd

2014-11-10 Thread Alexander Dahl
Hei hei, Am 2014-11-10 00:15, schrieb Steven Chamberlain: > Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: >> We discussed kfreebsd at length, but are not satisfied that a >> release with Jessie will be of sufficient quality. We are dropping >> it as an official release architecture, > > I hope we can come up with a

Re: uint8_t not exportet by sys/types.h

2014-10-27 Thread Alexander Dahl
Hei hei, Am 27.10.2014 um 00:10 schrieb Christoph Egger: > As Ian reported in the context of #766913, freebsd documentation[0] > suggests using sys/types.h to get uint8_t and friends. However your > advice for sys/param.h seems to be necessary on kFreeBSD. Is that on > purpose? AFAIK uint8_t is C

Re: Offering to help

2014-10-25 Thread Alexander Dahl
Hei hei, On 21.10.2014 22:36, Steven Chamberlain wrote: > I was thinking there should be a page or whole section on the Debian > Wiki describing use cases, success stories etc. There's a myth that > GNU/kFreeBSD is only useful as a router or firewall OS; that's > something it is indeed good at (

Re: Bug#743292: dhclient fails during installation with weekly iso (freebsd-amd64)

2014-04-22 Thread Alexander Dahl
Hei Steven, Am 22.04.2014 15:00, schrieb Steven Chamberlain: > I think that problem was the inverse of this. I suspect you had an > older freebsd-net-tools installed and it couldn't configure networking > on kFreeBSD 10. d-i has the newer freebsd-net-tools-udeb/10.0+ds1-1 but > it is no longer w

Re: Bug#743292: dhclient fails during installation with weekly iso (freebsd-amd64)

2014-04-22 Thread Alexander Dahl
Hei hei, On 18.04.2014 10:01, Robert Millan wrote: > On 15/04/2014 20:40, Steven Chamberlain wrote: >> I see the problem now. This is happening only for d-i builds based on >> kfreebsd-9. > > Would it be time to remove kfreebsd-9 from d-i already? Maybe https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport

Bug#740509: confirm

2014-04-11 Thread Alexander Dahl
I can confirm this for jessie and package version 10.0+ds1-1. This is rather annoying, because at the moment the FreeBSD 9 kernel is removed on upgrade and you have no running network afterwards making reinstall older packages over network impossible. I run the 32 bit version in VMware player on De

Re: XENHVM

2013-10-05 Thread Alexander Dahl
Hei hei, Am 27.09.2013 16:32, schrieb Steven Chamberlain: > For kfreebsd-9, I replaced debian/arch/amd64/amd64.config with a custom > amd64-xenhvm.config like so, then dpkg-buildpackage -b: I just edited the file, forgot to change device names in /etc/fstab and /etc/network/interfaces, booted fro

Re: IPSEC

2013-09-27 Thread Alexander Dahl
Hei hei, Am 2013-09-26 21:00, schrieb Steven Chamberlain: > I wondered about doing this already in kfreebsd-9, but at least > if kfreebsd-10 is ready soon to go into sid (I'd prefer to wait > until first upstream beta version) then we'll have the choice of > at least one kernel having full XENHVM