Re: replacing makedev

2002-07-07 Thread Andres Salomon
freebsd would be ignored (assuming the os is linux). On Sun, Jul 07, 2002 at 09:07:18PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > > On 07-Jul-2002 Andres Salomon wrote: > > I've started work on this, but I figured I'd shoot an email to the list > > for sugg

Re: replacing makedev

2002-07-07 Thread Andres Salomon
from scratch. On Sun, Jul 07, 2002 at 03:53:17PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > If RH already uses /etc/makedev.d, why not start with their > application? > > On Sun, Jul 07, 2002 at 06:16:04PM -0400, Andres Salomon wrote: > > Looking at redhat's makedev, they h

replacing makedev

2002-07-07 Thread Andres Salomon
I've started work on this, but I figured I'd shoot an email to the list for suggestions/comments. The current makedev script (/sbin/MAKEDEV) is rather lacking in a few respects: 1) It does a nasty 'eval "major_$device=$major"', where $device and $major come from /proc/devices, for every single de

Re: Self-hosting Debian NetBSD system available

2002-02-07 Thread Andres Salomon
Blech; it would appear fakeroot does an explicit dlopen of /lib/libc.so.6. Since I don't have root in your chroot, and, well, fakeroot doesn't work, try changing LIBCPATH at the top of libfakeroot.c to /usr/lib/libc.so.12 and recompiling.. On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 11:02:22PM +, Matthew Garre

Re: OffTopic: Reply-to

2001-07-04 Thread Andres Salomon
I'm one of those rare people that likes a Cc:, regardless of whether I'm on a list or not. I read mailing lists when I'm bored; if someone replies to me via list, I won't immediately respond. OTOH, if I'm Cc'd, I'll get a copy of the email in my inbox (of which I'll be informed about immediately

Re: about debian bsd

2000-11-15 Thread Andres Salomon
Just how different are the kernels themselves? I use openbsd, and I've used freebsd.. Why not aim for all 3, if possible? On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 09:59:01PM -0700, John Galt wrote: > > What kernel should we aim for first? >

Re: about debian bsd

2000-11-14 Thread Andres Salomon
I only recently subscribed to this list. The last time I heard about debian-bsd, there was a rather large flamewar about the legal implications of it. What was the result of that? Which bsd was the maintainer working on, and could the files in the debian maintainer's home directory be made publi