Is Debian GNU/kFreeBSD an entirely free distribution?

The FreeBSD kernel as released by the FreeBSD Project contains binary blobs. Is the Debian kFreeBSD kernel blob-free, as the Debian Linux kernel is?

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Re: Bug#817757: motion: FTBFS on kfreebsd-amd64: #error This header is not available for amd64

Steven Chamberlain: > Steven Chamberlain wrote: >> I've attached a quick and easy fix for this, but it's not suitable to go >> upstream. > > Oops, attached now. > Hey Steven, thanks for the patch. Just to confirm, it's not going to interfere with the i386 build is it? I guess the current

Re: Is Debian GNU/kFreeBSD an entirely free distribution?

Adam Wilson writes: > The FreeBSD kernel as released by the FreeBSD Project contains binary > blobs. Is the Debian kFreeBSD kernel blob-free, as the Debian Linux > kernel is? Yes, see:

Bug#818700: allow non-numerical suffixes in version numbers

Control: tags -1 + pending Thanks, applied in SVN r5945, meaning it should be in the next kfreebsd-10 (10.3) package upload. Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Processed: Re: Bug#818700: allow non-numerical suffixes in version numbers

Processing control commands: > tags -1 + pending Bug #818700 [kfreebsd-10] allow non-numerical suffixes in version numbers Added tag(s) pending. -- 818700: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=818700 Debian Bug Tracking System Contact ow...@bugs.debian.org with problems

Bug#818700: allow non-numerical suffixes in version numbers

Package: kfreebsd-10 Version: 10.3~svn296373-2 Hi The regex used by get-orig-source target in debian/rules to parse package version doesn't allow for anything other than numbers to be present after the last '-' character. However it's common in Ubuntu to use ubuntuX suffixes. Also ubuntuBSD

Re: Collaboration from ubuntuBSD project

On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 05:31:49PM +, Steven Chamberlain wrote: > p.s. where are the sources? Do you have an APT repo with those yet? No. I was thinking the patches would make everyone happy, as they're a verbatim copy of what was used to build the packages. However you're the second person

Re: Collaboration from ubuntuBSD project

p.s. where are the sources? Do you have an APT repo with those yet? Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain ste...@pyro.eu.org signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Is Debian GNU/kFreeBSD an entirely free distribution?

Hi, Adam Wilson wrote: > The FreeBSD kernel as released by the FreeBSD Project contains binary > blobs. Is the Debian kFreeBSD kernel blob-free, as the Debian Linux > kernel is? The DFSG still apply to GNU/kFreeBSD, so we can only distribute binaries that we have built from source. This script

Bug#818423: marked as done (kfreebsd-10: CVE-2016-1883: Linux compatibility layer issetugid(2) system call vulnerability)

Your message dated Thu, 17 Mar 2016 03:59:34 + with message-id and subject line Bug#818423: fixed in kfreebsd-10 10.1~svn274115-4+kbsd8u3 has caused the Debian Bug report #818423, regarding kfreebsd-10: CVE-2016-1883: Linux compatibility layer issetugid(2)

Re: Collaboration from ubuntuBSD project

Hi, On 20/03/2016 12:16 AM, Jon Boden wrote: > ubuntuBSD just went live today with its first release, v15.04 BETA1 > (codenamed "Escape from SystemD"). > > This project owes a lot to Debian GNU/kFreeBSD and I'd like to send you a > sincere offer for collaboration. > > In the following days

Bug#818423: kfreebsd-10: CVE-2016-1883: Linux compatibility layer issetugid(2) system call vulnerability

Package: src:kfreebsd-10 Version: 10.1~svn274115-4+kbsd8u2 Severity: important Tags: security upstream kfreebsd's Linux binary compatibility layer (linux.ko module) has a programming error that could allow for privilege esclation to happen. Although, this feature is not typically used by Debian

Re: Collaboration from ubuntuBSD project

Hi! Jon Boden wrote: > ubuntuBSD just went live today with its first release, v15.04 BETA1 Congratulations, I just heard via http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item=UbuntuBSD-First-Release I wondered when someone would make this ;) > (codenamed "Escape from SystemD"). That's become a

Collaboration from ubuntuBSD project

Hi everyone, ubuntuBSD just went live today with its first release, v15.04 BETA1 (codenamed "Escape from SystemD"). This project owes a lot to Debian GNU/kFreeBSD and I'd like to send you a sincere offer for collaboration. In the following days I'm going to submit back all the improvements

Re: Bug#818354: RM: kicad [kfreebsd-amd64 kfreebsd-i386] -- RoQA; B-D recursively unavailable on kfreebsd

On 2016-03-18 18:07, Steven Chamberlain wrote: > Steven Chamberlain wrote: >> Actually please hold off on that... the issue that led to pandoc >> removeal already has a patch in the BTS, though I forget which package >> was the root cause of this. > > That was http://bugs.debian.org/815519 in

Re: Bug#818233: Fails to build from source on kfreebsd-amd64

@lists.openwall.comOn Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 10:24:24PM +, Steven Chamberlain wrote: > user debian-bsd@lists.debian.org > usertags 818233 + kfreebsd > thanks > > Hi, > > Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: > > gdk-pixbuf on kfreebsd-amd64 is still at version 2.31.5-1 since all > > later version fail to

Re: Bug#818354: RM: kicad [kfreebsd-amd64 kfreebsd-i386] -- RoQA; B-D recursively unavailable on kfreebsd

Control: block -1 by 815519 Steven Chamberlain wrote: > Actually please hold off on that... the issue that led to pandoc > removeal already has a patch in the BTS, though I forget which package > was the root cause of this. That was http://bugs.debian.org/815519 in haskell-mockery Regards, --

Bug#818426: marked as done (kfreebsd-10: CVE-2016-1885: incorrect argument validation in sysarch(2))

Your message dated Thu, 17 Mar 2016 03:59:34 + with message-id and subject line Bug#818426: fixed in kfreebsd-10 10.1~svn274115-4+kbsd8u3 has caused the Debian Bug report #818426, regarding kfreebsd-10: CVE-2016-1885: incorrect argument validation in

Re: Bug#818354: RM: kicad [kfreebsd-amd64 kfreebsd-i386] -- RoQA; B-D recursively unavailable on kfreebsd

Control: tags -1 + moreinfo Andreas Beckmann wrote: > pandoc and some part of the haskell stack required by pandoc are missing > on kfreebsd. Actually please hold off on that... the issue that led to pandoc removeal already has a patch in the BTS, though I forget which package was the root

Processed: Re: Bug#818426: kfreebsd-10: CVE-2016-1885: incorrect argument validation in sysarch(2)

Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > tags 818426 - patch + security Bug #818426 [src:kfreebsd-10] kfreebsd-10: CVE-2016-1885: incorrect argument validation in sysarch(2) Removed tag(s) patch. Bug #818426 [src:kfreebsd-10] kfreebsd-10: CVE-2016-1885: incorrect argument validation