Re: Bug#545691: diverting telinit

2009-10-27 Thread brian m. carlson
own to the fact that with kFreeBSD, /dev is a devfs, which cannot handle FIFOs, only block and character nodes and symlinks. I don't even know if that's still the case; my only kFreeBSD machine was moved back to Linux due to some problems with the earlier versions of kFreeBSD, like bind9 not

Re: Bug#545691: diverting telinit

2009-10-23 Thread brian m. carlson
kfreebsd-* architectures don't use /dev/initctl; I think it's something like /etc/.initctl. They do, however, have a linuxy proc. You should probably check with the porters as to what location is appropriate on those architectures. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, T

Re: priorities

2007-12-06 Thread brian m. carlson
sn't seem terribly useful most of the time... (not dash though) I've never seen anyone use either dash or posh as their default shell, and IME time is only used in interactive shells, so this might not be that important. IMHO it could be relegated to optional. -- brian m. carlson /

Bug#189422: Hijacking bugs

2006-05-17 Thread Brian M. Carlson
clone 189422 -1 reassign 189422 texinfo severity 189422 serious submitter -1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] # Feel free to "block 189422 with -1", # but the original bug is still severity serious. thanks, control, and have a nice day I would appreciate if you are going to change the topic of a bug, that you cl

Re: build-deps non non-US does not implies archiving in non-US?

2002-10-19 Thread Brian M. Carlson
mmends", or "Build-Depends" relationship on a non-_main_ package), * must not be so buggy that we refuse to support them, and * must meet all policy requirements presented in this manual. Note the first part. -- Brian M. Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://decoy