Re: FreeBSD patch for dpkg?

2003-05-01 Thread Nathan Hawkins
On Thu, May 01, 2003 at 06:46:47AM +1000, Rudolph Pereira wrote: firstly, thanks for the explanation On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 03:08:23PM -0600, Joel Baker wrote: What there is, is on the Ports page, mostly. Keep in mind that there are (at least) two separate efforts that are being kept

Re: FreeBSD patch for dpkg?

2003-04-30 Thread Rudolph Pereira
firstly, thanks for the explanation On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 03:08:23PM -0600, Joel Baker wrote: What there is, is on the Ports page, mostly. Keep in mind that there are (at least) two separate efforts that are being kept track of on here: the (stagnant?) FreeBSD port, and the (stalled on GCC

Re: FreeBSD patch for dpkg?

2003-04-29 Thread Joel Baker
On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 06:29:18AM +1000, Rudolph Pereira wrote: On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 09:42:16PM +0100, Dan Walrond wrote: From what I can see, as these ports are meant to be Debian ported to *BSD the core of the OS should be as much of *BSD as possible. So the ports should be using the

Re: FreeBSD patch for dpkg?

2003-04-28 Thread Dan Walrond
On Sat, Apr 26, 2003 at 10:36:03AM -0600, Joel Baker wrote: On Sat, Apr 26, 2003 at 04:37:16PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: On Sat, Apr 26, 2003 at 02:18:05PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now, relativly early on is probably a good time to decide on a libc to use, especially if

Re: FreeBSD patch for dpkg?

2003-04-27 Thread Robert Millan
On Sat, Apr 26, 2003 at 10:36:03AM -0600, Joel Baker wrote: I would beg to differ, based on experience with the NetBSD libc. The things which are required are: 1) Someone who can and will *maintain* the libc package. Said person should also probably be versed enough in build systems to

Re: FreeBSD patch for dpkg?

2003-04-26 Thread Robert Millan
On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 05:33:58PM -0400, Nathan Hawkins wrote: On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 05:13:00PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: that's great news! If so, please ask him to use 5.0. why, is 5.0 the latest version? I have the workstation now. Just have to find time to sort out which files

Re: FreeBSD patch for dpkg?

2003-04-26 Thread fred
Hi All, can you put these Gigs on anonymous FTP? then i can select the needed files and take only these from your box. Not unless a solution can be found for the breakage in /usr/include. With glibc, I am unable to build a _very_ large number of BSD system utilities. I was making some

Re: FreeBSD patch for dpkg?

2003-04-26 Thread Joel Baker
On Sat, Apr 26, 2003 at 04:37:16PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: On Sat, Apr 26, 2003 at 02:18:05PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now, relativly early on is probably a good time to decide on a libc to use, especially if packages are distributed in binary form. So it guess it boils down to

Re: FreeBSD patch for dpkg?

2003-04-26 Thread Nathan Hawkins
On Sat, Apr 26, 2003 at 01:36:44PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 05:33:58PM -0400, Nathan Hawkins wrote: On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 05:13:00PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: that's great news! If so, please ask him to use 5.0. why, is 5.0 the latest version? Yes.

FreeBSD patch for dpkg?

2003-04-25 Thread Fred
Hi All, I am trying to compile dpkg on FreeBSD 4.6.2 so that I can get the ball rolling so to speak. From what I have read on the archives I need to get a patch for dpkg because the libc for NetBSD at least (and presumably FreeBSD) does not support obstack. Where can I get this patch? I have not

Re: FreeBSD patch for dpkg?

2003-04-25 Thread Robert Millan
On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 08:43:54AM -0600, Joel Baker wrote: As for FreeBSD, I know some chunk of work was done on making it use glibc, and at least one of the active glibc folks is wanting to get a FreeBSD box to make sure new things don't break on it. that's great news! Nathan, I don't