Re: Request for kFreeBSD (and Hurd) porters
Hi Steven, Glad to see you back on the mailing list! On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 10:19 AM, Svante Signell 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
Re: Request for kFreeBSD (and Hurd) porters
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 > 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. > 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.
Re: Request for kFreeBSD (and Hurd) porters
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). 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? 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? Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Request for kFreeBSD (and Hurd) porters
Hi all, Cc: debian-devel 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 :) The buildd is now soon up-to- date building packages being outdated. As you know GNU/Hurd packages are also built for sid, having two buildds: ironforge and mahler. Now is the time to submit patches for failing packages. In the beginning this will be low hanging fruit, like patches not applying for glibc, a line missing one entry in the symbols file for mpfr4, etc. GNU/kFreeBSD and GNU/Hurd share many common interests. Mainly most of the build-related problems are due to non-portable software, i.e. Linux only designs. Please help us out by submitting bugs with patches to sub...@debian.org to make kFreeBSD a first class citizen too, in addition to GNU/Hurd. Thanks!
