Re: please register as arch-specific

2011-01-23 Thread Robert Millan
2011/1/23 Samuel Thibault : > It used to be used on FreeBSD, it should be just a matter of ioctls and > the likes. I guess digging back the old versions of ppp which had the > support could be a good ground. I'm not familiar with ppp. Why can't it just use portable interfaces like tun/tap? -- R

Re: please register as arch-specific

2011-01-23 Thread Samuel Thibault
Robert Millan, le Sun 23 Jan 2011 21:23:47 +0100, a écrit : > 2011/1/23 Samuel Thibault : > > How kfreebsd people plan to support ppp? (notably pppoe/a, needed for > > DSL lines...) > > FreeBSD has its own ppp, which needs to be coerced into building on > GNU libc. Ah. Do you think it could be mo

Re: please register as arch-specific

2011-01-23 Thread Robert Millan
2011/1/23 Samuel Thibault : > How kfreebsd people plan to support ppp? (notably pppoe/a, needed for > DSL lines...) FreeBSD has its own ppp, which needs to be coerced into building on GNU libc. If the ppp package is Linux-specific, it can be corced into building on kFreeBSD, too. Or even, both t

Re: please register as arch-specific

2011-01-23 Thread Samuel Thibault
Philipp Kern, le Sun 23 Jan 2011 20:44:19 +0100, a écrit : > On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 07:09:54PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Marco d'Itri, le Sun 23 Jan 2011 18:59:12 +0100, a écrit : > > > On Jan 23, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > > Err, this is really not linux-only, there even used to be a f

Re: please register as arch-specific

2011-01-23 Thread Philipp Kern
On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 07:09:54PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Marco d'Itri, le Sun 23 Jan 2011 18:59:12 +0100, a écrit : > > On Jan 23, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > Err, this is really not linux-only, there even used to be a freebsd > > > port, but apparently it didn't keep up to date. > > "u

Re: please register as arch-specific

2011-01-23 Thread Samuel Thibault
Marco d'Itri, le Sun 23 Jan 2011 18:59:12 +0100, a écrit : > On Jan 23, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Err, this is really not linux-only, there even used to be a freebsd > > port, but apparently it didn't keep up to date. > "used to be" is the key here, it was bitrotten years ago when I started > mai

Re: please register as arch-specific

2011-01-23 Thread Samuel Thibault
Marco d'Itri, le Sun 23 Jan 2011 18:36:40 +0100, a écrit : > The following packages I maintain are linux-only and need to be marked > as such to stop wasting time trying to build them on hurd and kfreebsd-*: > > ppp Err, this is really not linux-only, there even used to be a freebsd port, but app

Re: please register as arch-specific

2011-01-23 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jan 23, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Err, this is really not linux-only, there even used to be a freebsd > port, but apparently it didn't keep up to date. "used to be" is the key here, it was bitrotten years ago when I started maintaining ppp and has been removed from the tree a couple of years ag