Re: Bug#955210: kernel-wedge: regression causes kfreebsd-10 FTBFS

2020-03-28 Thread Ben Hutchings
Steven Chamberlain wrote: > tags -1 + patch > thanks Sorry about that. I knew this was a relatively risky change, but thought I had test cases covering everything. Would you mind adding a regression test for this case? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings This sentence contradicts itself - no actuall

Re: Re-evaluating architecture inclusion in unstable/experimental

2018-09-29 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2018-09-29 at 17:05 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 9/29/18 8:48 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Fri, 2018-09-28 at 14:16 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > [...] > > > Furthermore, several of the ports are in very healthy condition and > &g

Re: Re-evaluating architecture inclusion in unstable/experimental

2018-09-28 Thread Ben Hutchings
a year or so before someone and fixed them. [...] So, by all means have fun working on these ports, but aside from ppc64 I don't see any prospect of them meeting release qualifications. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism. - Harrison signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Porter roll call for Debian Stretch

2016-10-01 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2016-10-01 at 15:48 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 10/01/2016 02:17 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > > > > > > This isn't the case for PowerPC32 where upstream development is still very > > > active because it's part of the P

Re: Porter roll call for Debian Stretch

2016-10-01 Thread Ben Hutchings
into shape which is why I hope > we can add sparc64 as an official port soon. [...] Oracle cares about Solaris on SPARC, not Linux on SPARC. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Klipstein's 4th Law of Prototyping and Production: A fail-safe circuit will destroy others. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Porter roll call for Debian Stretch

2016-10-01 Thread Ben Hutchings
't need multiarch: [...] This is only the case because ppc64 has a lower level of support (unofficial port) than powerpc (release architecture).  The 64-bit kernel package should be dropped once powerpc is at the same or lower level of support than ppc64 - just as we've done for i386, s390

Re: possible /dev/random compromise (misplaced trust in RDRAND / Padlock entropy sources)

2013-12-14 Thread Ben Hutchings
andom, but credited as providing only a fraction of a bit of entropy. get_random_bytes() was changed to not use an architectural HWRNG. get_random_int() and get_random_bytes_arch() will use it and it is documented that they are not suitable for cryptographic purposes. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Knowledge is power. France is bacon. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

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

2013-09-21 Thread Ben Hutchings
a64 and other big updates. > > So please, keep ia64 in the bandwagon ;-) But I don't think ia64 is well-supported even in wheezy. The kernel doesn't boot on some common machines and no-one seems to be able to fix it. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings compatible: Gracefully accepts erroneous data from any source signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Current and upcoming toolchain changes for jessie

2013-05-07 Thread Ben Hutchings
check this in advance. Sorry about that. If there are particular changes that cause a lot of breakage, they could be reverted temporarily. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism. - Harrison signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

[PATCH 3/3] install-files: Include modules.{builtin,order} in Linux kernel-image udebs

2012-09-24 Thread Ben Hutchings
on-$flavour-di/lib/modules/$installedname/"); } elsif (-e "$sourcedir/boot/kfreebsd-$installedname.gz") { doit("install", "-D", "-m", 644, diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index 1959853..3fb4257 100644 --- a/debian/chan

[PATCH 2/3] List the unpackaged modules

2012-09-24 Thread Ben Hutchings
index 6bebe43..1959853 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -2,6 +2,8 @@ kernel-wedge (2.85) UNRELEASED; urgency=low * gen-deps: Ignore dependencies in default package-list that are overridden by the architecture package-list (Closes: #678587) + * find-unpackaged: New

[PATCH 1/3] gen-deps: Ignore default dependencies that are overridden per-architecture

2012-09-24 Thread Ben Hutchings
tecture package-list (Closes: #678587) + + -- Ben Hutchings Sun, 24 Jun 2012 19:34:25 +0100 + kernel-wedge (2.84) unstable; urgency=low [ Joey Hess ] signature.asc Description: Digital signature

[PATCH kernel-wedge 0/3]

2012-09-24 Thread Ben Hutchings
I'm intending to commit the following changes and upload a new version of kernel-wedge. Let me know if you see any problems with them. Ben. Ben Hutchings (3): gen-deps: Ignore default dependencies that are overridden per-architecture List the unpackaged modules install-files: In

Bug#594940: Includes binary-only and obfuscated C code

2010-08-30 Thread Ben Hutchings
-elf.raid.o.uu Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#594940: Includes binary-only and obfuscated C code

2010-08-30 Thread Ben Hutchings
Package: kfreebsd-8 Version: 8.1-5 Severity: serious The following C files contain firmware images in binary-equivalent form but are not obviously accompanied by the corresponding source code: sys/contrib/dev/ral/rt2661_ucode.h - binaries are packaged in firmware-ralink as /lib/firmware/ralink/rt

Re: [DRAFT v2] Policy for Linux kernel, initramfs, boot loader update process

2010-07-16 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 09:51 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: [...] > On Sun, 2010-07-04 at 18:48:20 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > 4. During a kernel package installation, upgrade or removal, various > > boot loader hooks may be invoked (in this order): > > > > a. A p

Re: How to stop building libv4l on non-Linux architectures

2008-11-03 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2008-11-02 at 14:16 +0100, Gregor Jasny wrote: > Hi, > > I'm the maintainer of libv4l which passed the new queue yesterday. > Obviously the package build failed on non-Linux architectures [1]. How > do I handle this situation? Should I list all supported architectures in > the control fi