Re: Potential issues for most ports (Was: Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info))

2013-11-03 Thread Steve Langasek
ved in getting the porters access to porter boxes? Porter boxes exist so that DDs *not* involved in a port have access to a machine of the architecture and can keep their packages working. I've never heard of a porter who didn't have access to their own box

Re: Upstart & kFreeBSD port for Debian

2013-05-21 Thread Steve Langasek
3 21:53, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > >>> On 20/05/13 at 18:19 +0200, Michael Stapelberg wrote: > > >>> - Neither systemd nor upstart are likely to be ported to kfreebsd soon, > > >>> as they both rely on many Linux-specific features and interfaces.

Re: [Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#654824: openldap: FTBFS(!linux): testsuite failures

2012-01-08 Thread Steve Langasek
start, so I'm skeptical of this being an openldap bug. > Full build log at > https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=openldap&arch=kfreebsd-amd64&ver=2.4.28-1&stamp=1325787980 Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free O

Re: [dd-list] Please use Architecture: linux-any

2011-08-19 Thread Steve Langasek
file, > because they are probably not to be ported to non-Linux systems, due to > strong Linux dependency. > > Could people below consider using > > Architecture: linux-any > > instead of > > Architecture: any > > in their next upload? That would help us clean

Re: DSO linking changes for wheezy

2010-11-16 Thread Steve Langasek
oving libglitz is more painful than it would be otherwise, because instead of just rebuilding cairo itself without glitz, you must rebuild everything above cairo in the stack that used pkg-config for linking. I don't argue that this makes --as-needed *correct* as a default

Bug#596382: kfreebsd-image-8.1-1-686: "kern.proc.all" sysctl returns nothing/error. (SOLVED?)

2010-11-08 Thread Steve Langasek
(I doubt 'sysctl -x' is the interface we want to use from inside pam_limits, and anyway, I have no idea how to parse the line you quoted above.) If someone were to provide a preliminary patch implementing this, that would be most welcome. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever lon

Bug#373700: posixtestsuite: Building the package as root on amd64 changes the system clock permanently

2006-06-15 Thread Steve Langasek
as-root targets, so even using -rsudo should be ok, yes?) So, downgrading, though obviously we should want to see this fixed. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL P