Miscellaneous notes

[Brian M. Carlson]

I have kFreeBSD 6.0 packages working.  However, there is a need for updated 
glibc packages, as this would fix the ssh/sftp problem[0].  However, until 
the 5.4 packages support sigaction(SIGUSR1,...) I can't put it up, because 
apache2 doesn't like not being able to sigaction SIGUSR1.  I had to build 
with the FreeBSD 5.4 make, as the 6.0 one segfaults.  Also, awk is no longer 
built in my packages because original-awk works fine (however, gawk does 
not).

Can we please not reboot the system if remount at reboot fails?  I think it 
would be fine to wait on the disk for several seconds (up to 60) to become 
not busy.  This just cost me /etc/motd due to a filesystem and softupdates 
inconsistency, and fsck runs at every boot.  Thank you.

I will submit patches for ifupdown shortly; it breaks because someone didn't 
check if the kernel version actually contains two dots, and therefore it 
dereferences a NULL pointer.  This could also be a problem on Linux if 
someone builds their own kernel and refuses to specify a patchlevel.  It also 
refuses to build if original-awk is installed, as it specifies nawk.  And 
finally, it warns unnecessarily about "iface lo" being absent.

I will also prod the xserver maintainers, as 338290 is still unfixed, and it 
is giving me some grief.

[0] http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/lib/libc/stdlib/grantpt.c

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Brian M. Carlson <sandals at crustytoothpaste.ath.cx>
Running on GNU/kFreeBSD
Support alternative kernels in Debian!