In porting stuff, I've found several cases where modifying the source to
build on Debian potentially breaks it on plain NetBSD. After talking to
Nathan about this, we came up with a couple of ideas:
1) Modify the kernel build so uname -v includes Debian - this is a
pretty trivial change. It does
Matthew Garrett wrote:
In porting stuff, I've found several cases where modifying the source to
build on Debian potentially breaks it on plain NetBSD. After talking to
Nathan about this, we came up with a couple of ideas:
1) Modify the kernel build so uname -v includes Debian - this is a
pretty
On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 06:51:34PM -0400, Nathan Hawkins wrote:
Matthew Garrett wrote:
1) Modify the kernel build so uname -v includes Debian - this is a
pretty trivial change. It does present problems if people build kernels on
their own - one option would be to make sure that the kernel
This means that people building packages will have to be running a
patched version of the kernel?
It means that you have to be running the system you are building for. This is
the same as for every other port of Debian.
It looks weird to me, also some packages checking for kernel version
On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 07:06:47PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
In porting stuff, I've found several cases where modifying the source to
build on Debian potentially breaks it on plain NetBSD. After talking to
Nathan about this, we came up with a couple of ideas:
1) Modify the kernel build
Hi all!
I have been following recent discussion about the Hurd closely - under
where do NEW packages go on both d-d and d-hurd lists (not all was
crossposted, so you surely missed some if didn't read both lists).
From what I have seen there I think that direct cause for all the
flamewar were:
Grzegorz Prokopski wrote:
Hi all!
I have been following recent discussion about the Hurd closely - under
where do NEW packages go on both d-d and d-hurd lists (not all was
crossposted, so you surely missed some if didn't read both lists).
From what I have seen there I think that direct cause for
W licie z nie, 19-05-2002, godz. 14:32, Grzegorz Prokopski pisze:
[...]
Most of the developers is familiar with the first one and have no
time to dig around to learn more about the others. That's why there's
so little understanding of all the issues here (and lots of flames).
[...]
For every
Again my repost of Marcus Brinkmann post (he's good at it - ain't he?;-)
so that it didn't get lost in the flamefest.
This one is about /hurd (and a bit about translators, even if they're
not any problem here)
Read on.
Grzegorz Prokopski
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