Bug#648361: uninstallable on kfreebsd-amd64

2012-03-19 Thread Ola Lundqvist
Hi After some research I have found out the following thing from a forum http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2005-June/090529.html "http://www.mreriksson.net/howtos/netbsd-pptp-client/ which discusses how to set up pptpclient on NetBSD and there he mentioned about installing the

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2012-03-17 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#648361: uninstallable on kfreebsd-amd64

2012-03-17 Thread Robert Millan
tags 648361 - moreinfo thanks Hi, We should find a solution to this before the release, as the package is available in the archive but unusable the problem is release-critical. I'm afraid I can't test PPTP, I can only confirm my patch builds succesfuly. If you're comfortable applying my patch n

Bug#648361: uninstallable on kfreebsd-amd64

2011-11-15 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Robert Millan writes: > Yes. Probably better to use: > > ifneq (, $(filter FreeBSD GNU/kFreeBSD, $(UNAME))) > Is this the recommended way? If yes I'll add it to the FAQ next to http://wiki.debian.org/Debian_GNU/kFreeBSD_FAQ#Q._How_do_I_detect_kfreebsd_with_preprocessor_directives_in_a_C_program

Bug#648361: uninstallable on kfreebsd-amd64

2011-11-15 Thread Robert Millan
2011/11/15 Ola Lundqvist : >> Notice how my patch enables "-DUSER_PPP" in CFLAGS.  This has a >> significant impact on the codepaths, most likely disabling the >> kernel-specific code you had in mind. > > When looking deeper into this it looks like your change is only > applicable to GNU/kFreeBSD,

Bug#648361: uninstallable on kfreebsd-amd64

2011-11-14 Thread Ola Lundqvist
Hi Robert, On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 07:14:35PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > [ CCing debian-bsd; if someone can test the patched version of PPTP > on GNU/kFreeBSD, please do and report. Thanks! ] Yes that would be very welcome! > Hi Ola, > > 2011/11/13 Ola Lundqvist : > > Have you tested to ins

Bug#648361: uninstallable on kfreebsd-amd64

2011-11-14 Thread Robert Millan
[ CCing debian-bsd; if someone can test the patched version of PPTP on GNU/kFreeBSD, please do and report. Thanks! ] Hi Ola, 2011/11/13 Ola Lundqvist : > Have you tested to install this package and actually seen that it > works in practice? The reason I ask is that as far as I know this > tool d

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2011-11-13 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#648361: uninstallable on kfreebsd-amd64

2011-11-13 Thread Ola Lundqvist
tags 648361 + moreinfo help thanks Hi Robert Have you tested to install this package and actually seen that it works in practice? The reason I ask is that as far as I know this tool depends on the mppe support in the Linux kernel. I may be wrong however. I do not want to apply this until I have

Bug#648361: uninstallable on kfreebsd-amd64

2011-11-10 Thread Robert Millan
Package: pptp-linux Version: 1.7.2-6 Severity: grave Tags: patch User: debian-...@lists.debian.org Usertags: kfreebsd Hi, This package is uninstallable on kfreebsd-amd64 because of its dependency on ppp. On Debian GNU/kFreeBSD, equivalent (but not CLI-compatible) functionality is provided by fre