Re: freebsd-i386 status update

2002-09-17 Thread Nathan Hawkins
Tollef Fog Heen wrote: * Nathan Hawkins | Actually, bsdutils, mount and util-linux are built from the same | source. I've already worked on this, and got the pieces I needed | working on BSD libc, so I'll probably pick that up again later on. Having a fdisk-udeb package would be nice for the inst

re: freebsd-i386 status update

2002-09-17 Thread matthew green
* Almost anything that looks at /proc won't work. It would be a good idea to avoid that in code that is intended to be common to all archs. FYI: on netbsd, "mount -t proc -o linux procfs /proc" will provide a portion of linux-compatible procfs (whatever parts people have found are Requ

Re: freebsd-i386 status update

2002-09-17 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Nathan Hawkins | Hmm. fdisk in util-linux probably isn't usable. It won't build, and I | doubt it can reasonably be made to. Also, I'm not even sure it can | create FreeBSD slices and partitions correctly on Linux. I can build | FreeBSD fdisk and disklabel, but they're really not well suited to

Re: freebsd-i386 status update

2002-09-17 Thread Nathan Hawkins
Tollef Fog Heen wrote: * Nathan Hawkins | Hmm. fdisk in util-linux probably isn't usable. It won't build, and I | doubt it can reasonably be made to. Also, I'm not even sure it can | create FreeBSD slices and partitions correctly on Linux. I can build | FreeBSD fdisk and disklabel, but they're rea

Re: freebsd-i386 status update

2002-09-17 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Nathan Hawkins | Tollef Fog Heen wrote: | > * Nathan Hawkins | Hmm. fdisk in util-linux probably isn't | > usable. It won't build, and I | > | doubt it can reasonably be made to. Also, I'm not even sure it can | > | create FreeBSD slices and partitions correctly on Linux. I can build | > | Free

Re: freebsd-i386 status update

2002-09-17 Thread Branden Robinson
[I am not subscribed to any of these lists except discover-workers.] On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 11:47:10AM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > Progenies, any idea if/when we can have discover which work on *BSD as > well? Any idea how much work it will be? Is it doable at all? That's Discover 2.0. We

xfree86 4.2.1-0pre1v1 (mips,mipsel,m68k,powerpc,sh4) available at the X Strike Force

2002-09-17 Thread Branden Robinson
[Please direct follow-ups to debian-x.] I hadn't sent an update on these packages, but XFree86 4.2.1 pre-release packages are now available for the five architectures mentioned in the subject line, as well as for Alpha, i386, and SPARC, which were already announced. I still need builds for the fo