Miscellaneous notes

[Robert Millan]

On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 05:20:23AM +0000, Brian M. Carlson wrote:
> I have kFreeBSD 6.0 packages working.

Very nice!  Btw, did you need to fix anything in trunk/kfreebsd-6 ?  When I
committed it it wasn't yet tested.

> However, there is a need for updated 
> glibc packages, as this would fix the ssh/sftp problem[0].
> [...]
> [0] http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/lib/libc/stdlib/grantpt.c

I don't quite understand the problem with openpty(), but Glibc 2.3 is now
buildable.  Does that help?

> 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.

Sounds good.  I'd also add a "sync" before calling mount.

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

There's also #331517 (FTBFS in experimental).

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Robert Millan