Bug#502729: and the mysterious freebsd-utils package

2009-01-07 Thread Petr Salinger
My fix would be for procps sysctl and init files to not be installed at all. That way freebsd-utils is free to have its own init file. However this may impact on your arch in ways I cannot see, so here is your time to tell me if this will work for you. I won't be doing the fix as suggested in

Bug#502729: and the mysterious freebsd-utils package

2009-01-07 Thread Craig Small
On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 09:34:18AM +0100, Petr Salinger wrote: It looks like we (GNU/kFreeBSD) have to create better wrapper around native /lib/freebsd/sysctl. The current one does not accept file name for -p, it always uses /etc/sysctl.conf and the possibly specified filename treats as

Bug#502729: and the mysterious freebsd-utils package

2009-01-07 Thread Petr Salinger
On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 09:34:18AM +0100, Petr Salinger wrote: It looks like we (GNU/kFreeBSD) have to create better wrapper around native /lib/freebsd/sysctl. The current one does not accept file name for -p, it always uses /etc/sysctl.conf and the possibly specified filename treats as

Bug#502729: and the mysterious freebsd-utils package

2009-01-06 Thread Craig Small
Hello, I'm the maintainer of procps and are not subscribed to the BSD list, so please include me in the replies. I received this bug report saying there is another sysctl program out there in a package called freebsd-utils and the procps init script is calling it and failing. It would of been

Bug#502729: and the mysterious freebsd-utils package

2009-01-06 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Craig Small csm...@debian.org (07/01/2009): Hello, I'm the maintainer of procps and are not subscribed to the BSD list, so please include me in the replies. I hope it's enough through the bug? Anyhow I cannot find this package anywhere! Packages.d.o doesn't have it and what is real

Bug#502729: and the mysterious freebsd-utils package

2009-01-06 Thread Craig Small
On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 12:22:04AM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: I hope it's enough through the bug? It was, thanks. - Craig -- Craig Small GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 http://www.enc.com.au/ csmall at : enc.com.au

Bug#502729: and the mysterious freebsd-utils package

2009-01-06 Thread Craig Small
Thanks to KiBi I've got the package. Next. The problem is that procps has a sysctl and an init file. However, freebsd-utils has a sysctl file too. These files are slightly different. My fix would be for procps sysctl and init files to not be installed at all. That way freebsd-utils is free to