Re: CD's arrived

2015-10-08 Thread ian kremlin
Hello Syracuse, NY -- no CD, but poster has arrived. looks great! http://ce.gl/openbsd-5.8-poster.jpg ian On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 10:51 AM, M Wheeler <6f84c...@refn.co.uk> wrote: > CD's arrived today UK. Thanks again.

Re: AMD64 packages

2014-12-12 Thread ian kremlin
On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 2:02 PM, Ingo Schwarze schwa...@usta.de wrote: There are dragons. ingo, theo: sorry to post toxic advice, and thanks for the knowledge. i did not realize how shlib_version worked. i must have gotten lucky with my build but i should go back and fix it properly now ian

Re: AMD64 packages

2014-12-11 Thread ian kremlin
whenever i grab a snapshot and get library version mismatches after a `pkg_add -u`, i've found the easiest way to get those objects is grab a fresh source tree and compile them manually. for example, libc: cd /usr/src/lib/libc edit 'shlib_version' to have the appropriate major/minor versions

Re: Contributing

2014-11-14 Thread ian kremlin
If you are fluent in two or more languages you might be able to help out with translations. Bug-hunting (with proper reporting habits!) is always appreciated too. On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 6:33 PM, Jeremy dyr...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I very much believe the OpenBSD is important and needs

Re: 5.6 arrived

2014-10-29 Thread ian kremlin
5.6 arrived today in syracuse, new york. right on time, just as usual. :) On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 12:44 PM, Theo de Raadt dera...@cvs.openbsd.org wrote: Hopefully you agree that the file name snapshots/amd64/install56.iso is misleading? Looking at the file name I had assumed/hoped there is some

Re: Thanks for ksh

2014-09-25 Thread ian kremlin
On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 8:50 PM, Andrew Lester martinblan...@gmail.com wrote: Would the /bin/sh shell in OpenBSD, which is a reimplementation of bash be affected by either of these exploits? So happy to learn no action is needed on my part for my OpenBSD sever :) /bin/sh is an implementation

Re: crowding out bsd using systemd?

2014-07-02 Thread ian kremlin
refering to http://www.openbsdfoundation.org/ does not contain, as far as http://www.openbsdfoundation.org/gsoc2014.html software that you speak of be portable to Linux or is it BSD only? I've i am planning (post-GSOC) on writing an archlinux PKGBUILD and eventually a debian package.

Re: crowding out bsd using systemd?

2014-07-02 Thread ian kremlin
Umm, there are at least 24 links on that page to various projects that need done, to which are if you don't have the time to look through a list of a couple dozen items for the subject of what you have been criticizing, then i don't have the time to reply to your petty, innocuous emails. i

Re: crowding out bsd using systemd?

2014-06-30 Thread ian kremlin
https://uglyman.kremlin.cc/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=systemd-utl.git There is either something wrong with the web page or firefox as it mentions that the connection was reset while the page was loading. However, I've used you probably caught me in the middle of a reboot yet. But I wanted to know,

Re: crowding out bsd using systemd?

2014-06-28 Thread ian kremlin
that bsd is being crowded out, a thought that had not crossed my mind. I wanted to know, before assuming that it is the case everywhere, do people really not like systemd and is it really hurting bsd? If so, I'd be interested in doing something about it. Thanks, David yes, systemd has become

Re: crowding out bsd using systemd?

2014-06-28 Thread ian kremlin
that doesn't make the slightest sense. pure C can be and often is perfectly portable. those were not the right words, i meant to convey that because systemd uses its own DBus binding (and not an already-ported lib like GIO/GDbus) it would be difficult to port, as that binding is seemingly very

Re: OpenBSD GSoC 2014 accepted projects status

2014-06-21 Thread ian kremlin
hi! i'm a student working on four DBus daemons that emulate the behavior of systemd ones as to allow porting code that depends on systemd less of a hassle i've set up gitweb to track my progress, you can find it here: https://uglyman.kremlin.cc/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=systemd-utl.git; the 'master'