Re: GPG memory is not secure.

2014-08-19 Thread Werner Koch
On Tue, 19 Aug 2014 21:49, pentako...@openmailbox.org said: > In the installation i have this message and fail : > > gpg: WARNING: using insecure memory! > gpg: please see http://www.gnupg.org/faq.html for more information Well, read the FAQ - although I am not sure that our new FAQ still has an

Re: Xfce as default on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD?

2011-09-21 Thread Werner Koch
On Sun, 18 Sep 2011 15:12, r...@debian.org said: > I'm wondering if it would be a good idea to do the same on Debian > GNU/kFreeBSD, given the sadly increasing tendency in GNOME towards > unportability [2]. I am all in favor for such a change. I expect that the majority of kFreeBSD users in the

Re: [Pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#598471: using insecure memory on GNU/kFreeBSD

2010-11-14 Thread Werner Koch
On Sat, 13 Nov 2010 21:38, r...@debian.org said: Yeah, that is a problem. Last weekend I tried to port it but I have a lack of understanding how the Debian packages are supposed to work together; in particular the kernel headers and the various system libraries like libgeom etc. > For that we

Re: [Pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#598471: using insecure memory on GNU/kFreeBSD

2010-11-13 Thread Werner Koch
On Sat, 13 Nov 2010 14:58, r...@debian.org said: > I disagree. This puts an additional burden on the user. Adding SUID I can't see why encrypting the swap puts an additional burden on the user or on the machine. If you need to swap/page something you are in either of these situations: - The

Re: Releasability of the kFreeBSD ports

2010-08-10 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 5 Aug 2010 12:30, a...@debian.org said: > This is worse. It's even locally and I either never noticed that > because I use kfreebsd remotely most time (despite having that screen > on my desk) or it's an regression. > > Emacs 22 works fine though. I had the same problem for a long time.

Re: PPPoE support status update

2010-05-10 Thread Werner Koch
On Mon, 10 May 2010 01:50, anar...@koumbit.org said: > Ah! I didn't see those packages, they're not part of the official > archive! Maybe not anymore - I didn't checked. > PS: it seems you were able to compile PPP with a lot more features than > I did. Did you patch the source or did it magi

Re: PPPoE support status update

2010-05-09 Thread Werner Koch
On Sun, 9 May 2010 00:27, anar...@koumbit.org said: > That I just don't understand at all... Are you using userland PPP? From > what I can tell here, there's no ppp binary bundled with any kFreeBSD > package I know of, I don't see how creating the lock directory changes I am using this: freebs

Re: porting userland ppp to kfreebsd

2010-03-23 Thread Werner Koch
On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 20:22, anar...@koumbit.org said: > Could you clarify this? Are you saying I duplicated existing work and > that you already had userland ppp working? Is it with upstream's > usr.sbin/ppp? Yeah, I have userland ppp working as a client. It was a mere mkdir /var/spool/lock >

Re: porting userland ppp to kfreebsd

2010-03-21 Thread Werner Koch
On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 01:28, anar...@koumbit.org said: > As far as I know, there's currently no possibility of doing PPP or PPPoE > in Debian GNU/kFreeBSD. I'd like to see that fixed. I am using PPP for quite some time now with my UMTS stick. The gotcha is that the lock directory is a different one

Re: Some questions about the port

2010-03-01 Thread Werner Koch
On Mon, 1 Mar 2010 18:53, t...@mirbsd.de said: > with a bunch of GNU packages. The FSF likes to do Vendor lock-in, That is somewhat unfair. For one you can't speak of vendor lock-in in a FS project, second and more important is that glibc is the core of GNU (the OS) and third glibc is very much

Re: [patch] devd and acpiconf

2009-12-17 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:23:23 +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > Just a quick tip: you don't need to include all upstream files in your > patch, as those end up in the orig tarball. Modifiing the get-orig-source > routine in debian/rules should be enough. Okay. I have not looked to closely at the rul

[patch] devd and acpiconf

2009-12-17 Thread Werner Koch
Hi! I prepared a patch against the Debian source to include devd and acpiconf. I am not a DD and thus I have no experience creating packages; in particular the conf files are missing. What needs to be included are these files: /etc/devd.conf /etc/devd/asus.conf /etc/rc.suspend /etc/rc.r

[patch] pidfile_open (was: devd now running on my box)

2009-12-16 Thread Werner Koch
On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:09:19 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > I was in the process to release a new upstream release for libbsd, and > can include those functions. I'll then proceed with an upload to > Debian. Find below a patch against the debian source. * debian/control (Description): Upd

devd now running on my box

2009-12-16 Thread Werner Koch
Hi! I worked on devd and now I am able run the rc.suspend and rc.resume scripts on my X31. To make that really useful I also ported acpiconf. I added new functions pidfile_* to libbsd and would like to know how to proceed: Create a Debian patch or talk to upstream and get it into their repo firs

Re: devd, acpiconf and such

2009-12-16 Thread Werner Koch
On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:10:07 +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > As far as I know, no one is working on that. Ideally this should be > integrated to the freebsd-utils source package (possibly producing new > binary packages), but this is probably a detail, the most important job > being to port it to g

devd, acpiconf and such

2009-12-15 Thread Werner Koch
Hi! Looking at the freebsd kernel event system I obviously came across the devd. Are there any plans to include it or is the plan to port the Linux udev system to kfreebsd? Looking at devd.conf and its usage I have to say that I really like it; in contrast to udev (or whatever the current hotplu

chvt for kfreebsd

2009-11-03 Thread Werner Koch
-- Die Gedanken sind frei. Ausnahmen regelt ein Bundesgesetz. /* chvt.c - change virtual terminal for [k]freebsd Copyright (C) 2009 Werner Koch This file is free software; as a special exception the author gives unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it, with or without