Re: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing (Status update)

2013-09-19 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-09-01 09:33, Niels Thykier wrote: Hi, As we announced in [LAST-BITS], we would like to get a better idea of that status of the ports, to make an informed decision about which port can be released with jessie. One of the steps is to get an overview of which of the porters are (still)

Re: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing

2013-09-19 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hi! I'm not a DD or DM, but an upstream contributor and maintainer for the toolchain, both for different things at work, and in my free time for the Hurd. I have no plans to stop this, so this will cover the jessie lifetime. As time permits, I also work on the Hurd itself, and advise

Re: Keymaps in virtual consoles.

2013-09-19 Thread Mats Erik Andersson
Hello all, fredag den 13 september 2013 klockan 23:38 skrev Steven Chamberlain detta: On 13/09/13 22:20, Steven Chamberlain wrote: There is a visible effect of changing layout (like german.iso changes to qwertz layout, fr.iso to azerty, and swedish.iso There's some visible effect (like

Re: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing

2013-09-19 Thread Svante Signell
On Sun, 2013-09-01 at 09:33 +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: Hi, I am an active porter for the following architectures and I intend to continue this for the lifetime of the jessie release: For hurd-i386, I - test most packages on this architecture - fix toolchain issues - triage arch-specific bugs -

Re: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing (Status update)

2013-09-19 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 10:38:29AM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: Here is a little status update on the mails we have received so far. First off, thanks to all the porters who have already replied! So far, the *no one* has stepped up to back the following architectures: hurd-i386 ia64

Re: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing

2013-09-19 Thread Daniel Pocock
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 I'm particularly keen to see communication packages working on as many architectures as possible because otherwise two-way communications opportunities are missed if some users are excluded. In short, I'm not formally volunteering, but if people

Re: Suggestions from DSA

2013-09-19 Thread Robert Millan
Steven Chamberlain: Maybe virtio drivers improve things (in kfreebsd-10, also were added in either 9.1 or 9.2 I think?). Yep, it's supported in 9.2. As for D-I, I don't think it will work due to different disk naming scheme (/dev/vtbd[0-9]). In case someone wants to give some try at fixing

Re: Deterministic builds

2013-09-19 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On 18/09/13 23:02, Robert Millan wrote: Upstream does something similar with svn version number. I suggest you look at newvers.sh, perhaps it can be expanded to support other variables. Thanks. I saw that, and was able to do something similar. The gzipped kernel image now seems to be

Re: Suggestions from DSA

2013-09-19 Thread Robert Millan
Steven Chamberlain: Maybe virtio drivers improve things (in kfreebsd-10, also were added in either 9.1 or 9.2 I think?). Yep. Note the different disk naming scheme (/dev/vtbd[0-9]). In case someone wants to give some try at fixing D-I, I think it just needs patching in two places: - A probing

Re: Keymaps in virtual consoles.

2013-09-19 Thread Robert Millan
Mats Erik Andersson: I stumbled on an interesting phenomenon by a simple $ date In Swedish, Monday needs aring, i.e., 0xe5 in Latin1, and 0xc3 0xa5 with UTF-8, while Saturday and Sunday need odiareses, i.e., 0xf6 and 0xc3 0xb6, respecively. Now, in a console with ISO-8859-15, neither