Re: Bug#764505: kFreeBSD-amd64: Beta installer 2 seems to work

2014-10-08 Thread Joey Hess
Steven Chamberlain wrote: > > I noticed there was an option to install GNOME, even though it is > > not available for kFreeBSD jessie. > > I think tasksel is already supposed to hide uninstallable tasks, and > indeed, meta-gnome-desktop should be uninstallable in testing: Tasksel hides tasks that

Re: Bug#613430: debian-installer will not install grub bootloader on kfreebsd-amd64 system w/ a ZFS partition

2012-08-01 Thread Joey Hess
Steven Chamberlain wrote: > It could be that grub-installer tries to mount with '-t proc' instead of > '-t linprocfs' on GNU/kFreeBSD. It did. Fixed in git. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: porting: utimensat(3) equivilant

2011-03-18 Thread Joey Hess
Petr Salinger wrote: > For utimensat with AT_FDCWD, you can use for link/regular file > > int lutimes(const char *filename, const struct timeval tv[2]); > int utimes(const char *filename, const struct timeval tv[2]); Ok, if that works I can use it.. I had though utimensat might be more broadly po

porting: utimensat(3) equivilant

2011-03-18 Thread Joey Hess
My git-annex package detects that kfreebsd does not seem to support utimensat(3), and so avoids enabling a feature using it. I'm using utimensat to change the mtime of a symlink. I was hoping this would be available on the BSDs since it's in POSIX 200809. Can anyone suggest an alternative I should

Re: analysis and patches

2011-01-28 Thread Joey Hess
Robert Millan wrote: > user debian-bsd@lists.debian.org > usertags 608201 kfreebsd > thanks > > Joey wrote: > > But, while looking at this, bailing out when the filesystem is not iso9660 > > seems to have other problems too. kFreeBSD calls the filesystem cd9660, > > and so while I have not been ab

Bug#434548: dependency on dpkg-dev bloats small systems

2007-07-24 Thread Joey Hess
Package: type-handling Version: 0.2.21 Severity: wishlist If you want to install X on a small system, you'll end up with type-handling installed because xorg depends on sparc-utils | not+sparc. That's fine, except type-handling in turn depends on dpkg-dev, which is half a megabyte installed. A si

Re: Debian Installer - Etch Beta 3 release

2006-06-22 Thread Joey Hess
Frederik Schueler wrote: > I would like to upload kernel-wedge 2.24 before creating new amd64 > udebs, as there have been some changes to k-w which are needed for the > new udebs. > > The k-w changes are specific to the nic-extra-modules udeb, and might > touch other architectures too. > > can I

Re: a small C program to test xdm's /dev/mem reading on your architecture

2002-08-26 Thread Joey Hess
matthew green wrote: > bad ideas often hang around for a long time. the only surprising > thing to me is how long this one has taken to surface... Perhaps Branden is gathering information about what a bad idea this really is, to show upstream the error of their ways. I can't believe he actually i