Re: notes from the kfreebsd BoF

2011-07-31 Thread Robert Millan
2011/7/29 Timo Juhani Lindfors : > useless as such but important for the project, therefore important that > live-build gets support for building kfreebsd images and looking forward to > fix that --Daniel Baumann (dba) > [...] > * Live-build (making a kFreeBSD live CD, this will help gain more in

Re: notes from the kfreebsd BoF

2011-07-31 Thread Robert Millan
2011/7/29 Timo Juhani Lindfors : > * hardware support >  - wireless: problem with the firmware, we should implement a way to load > firmwares Now that DKMS is available, wouldn't it be simpler to use that instead? -- Robert Millan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bsd-requ...@lists.debian.or

Re: launchd (was notes from the kfreebsd BoF)

2011-07-31 Thread Robert Millan
2011/7/31 Pedro F. Giffuni : > Hello; > > Just passing by, I found very interesting the notes from > the BoF. Since it seems you will be working on a systemd > replacement for other systems, perhaps you will find it > easier to start from launchd, which is free and was > ported to FreeBSD on Google

Re: notes from the kfreebsd BoF

2011-07-31 Thread Edward Tomasz Napierała
Wiadomość napisana przez Timo Juhani Lindfors w dniu 29 lip 2011, o godz. 02:04: [..] > - NBD like feature? Why not iSCSI? > Problems > * hardware support > - wireless: problem with the firmware, we should implement a way to load > firmwares In FreeBSD, there is a framework for that: firmwa

Re: notes from the kfreebsd BoF

2011-07-31 Thread Robert Millan
2011/7/31 Edward Tomasz Napierała : >>  - NBD like feature? > > Why not iSCSI? I'd like to point out that Arno Töll did some research on what iSCSI implementations could be useful on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD. Arno finally concluded that istgt was the best option and packaged it: http://lists.debian.o

Re: notes from the kfreebsd BoF

2011-07-31 Thread Arno Töll
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Edward, On 31.07.2011 20:02, Edward Tomasz Napierała wrote: > Wiadomość napisana przez Timo Juhani Lindfors w dniu 29 lip 2011, o godz. > 02:04: >> - NBD like feature? > > Why not iSCSI? I have almost completed the istgt package providing an is

RFS: istgt - iSCSI userspace target daemon for Unix-like operating systems

2011-07-31 Thread Arno Töll
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello list, as discussed several times now on this list, I was seeking assistance for my iSCSI target project for kFreeBSD, as that's something kFreeBSD is missing so far. Recently Robert Millan asked me to join the kFreeBSD maintainers team and to ma

Wheezy ZFS Root Comments

2011-07-31 Thread Zach JL
Good Day, I've just installed kfreebsd using the wheezy installer, and it looks to me much improved from squeeze in terms of using zfs as a root filesystem. So, thanks for all the hard work. Here is some feedback on my recent experience. I think that the user should be given a chance to enter a

Reworked ZFS support in D-I, testers wanted

2011-07-31 Thread Robert Millan
Hi Zach 2011/7/31 Zach JL : > I think that the user should be given a chance to enter a name for the zpool > during installation in the same way that when installing Linux, the user has > a chance to enter the name of a Volume Group for LVM root. I think you'll be interested in: partman-zfs (8)

Re: launchd (was notes from the kfreebsd BoF)

2011-07-31 Thread Pedro F. Giffuni
Hi Robert; --- On Sun, 7/31/11, Robert Millan wrote: ... > > Do you know how does launchd compare to InitNG?  I'm > not familiar with either. > I hadn't seen InitNG so I can't compare. The license would be an issue for upstream FreeBSD though (assuming you want something that is not Debian spec

Re: RFS: istgt - iSCSI userspace target daemon for Unix-like operating systems

2011-07-31 Thread Robert Millan
Hi Arno, 2011/7/31 Arno Töll : > The source package can be found on: > > dget > http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/i/istgt/istgt_0.4~20110717-1.dsc The only problem I could find in the source is that sample config files belong in /usr/share/doc/istgt/examples, not in /etc. The rest looks

Re: RFS: istgt - iSCSI userspace target daemon for Unix-like operating systems

2011-07-31 Thread Arno Töll
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Robert, On 31.07.2011 23:04, Robert Millan wrote: > The only problem I could find in the source is that sample config > files belong in /usr/share/doc/istgt/examples, not in /etc. The rest > looks fine to me. thanks for reviewing the package. I'v

Processing of istgt_0.4~20110717-1_kfreebsd-amd64.changes

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Bug#636164: RFP: apt-clone -- ZFS integrated APT package handling utility

2011-07-31 Thread Robert Millan
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: apt-clone Version : 0.7.9nexenta28 * URL : see below * License : CDDL Programming Lang: Perl Description : ZFS integrated APT package handling utility apt-clone is the command-line tool for handling package

istgt_0.4~20110717-1_kfreebsd-amd64.changes is NEW

2011-07-31 Thread Debian FTP Masters
(new) istgt_0.4~20110717-1.debian.tar.gz extra admin (new) istgt_0.4~20110717-1.dsc extra admin (new) istgt_0.4~20110717-1_kfreebsd-amd64.deb extra admin iSCSI userspace target daemon for Unix-like operating systems istgt is a iSCSI target for Unix-like operating systems (including those with Lin

Re: Bug#636164: RFP: apt-clone -- ZFS integrated APT package handling utility

2011-07-31 Thread Arno Töll
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On 01.08.2011 00:38, Robert Millan wrote: > * Package name: apt-clone > Version : 0.7.9nexenta28 .. > It manages GRUB menu and ZFS 'syspool' > filesystems. Two upgrade methods supported: 1) safe upgrades via cloning a > currently act