Hi Steven, Glad to see you back on the mailing list! On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 10:19 AM, Svante Signell <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 2018-07-30 at 09:17 +0100, Steven Chamberlain wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Svante Signell wrote: >> > The Debian GNU/kFreeBSD port recently obtained a buildd building >> > packages for the sid distribution, kamp. Thank you very much for >> > your effort making this happening jrtc27 :) >> >> Thanks very much for this James! It was a really nice surprise to >> see packages building again. > > :) > >> May I ask who has provided the hardware/hosting? And what is the DNS >> hostname of the machine? (kamp.buildd.org does not resolve for me). > > That's me :D
The machine is NATed so has no public address nor a real hostname. The use of `kamp.buildd.org` is merely for mail purposes (there are only MX records that point to my mail server, from which kamp retrieves messages by fetchmail). >> Also, how are the i386 builds done: is that a kfreebsd-i386 chroot >> on a kfreebsd-amd64 system? Or is it a separate VM running >> "natively" on the 32-bit kernel? > > It's a kfreebsd-i386 chroot running on a kfreebsd-amd64 system. As Svante said; the downside is k-a has priority over k-i (though sid k-i still comes before exp k-a). >> By the way, since 4 days or so many packages are Built but not >> Installed in the archive. Is that because a DD must manually check >> and sign them? > > Yes, this is a drawback. James does all signing manually whenever he > has time. I'm not a DD so I'm not authorized to do such things. I try to do it at least every other day. The recent holdup has been waiting for the util-linux/shadow transition (takeover of su(1)), as the two must be upgraded in lockstep, so if one is built and uploaded but not the other, wanna-build will regard every package as uninstallable, blocking builds until the other is also built and uploaded. They've been built on both k-a and k-i now though so I will be resuming signing when I get home this evening. James
