Re: Bug#669647: ITP: hurd-cvsfs -- CVS virtual filesystem for the GNU Hurd

2012-04-23 Thread Simon McVittie
On 23/04/12 10:20, Samuel Thibault wrote: > [Hurd has] an incomplete procfs already. It doesn't have /proc/mounts, > because it's not a trivial thing to implement: since mounts are > distributed, there is no central place where filesystems are to be > recorded. For what it's worth, the same is tr

Re: Bug#669647: ITP: hurd-cvsfs -- CVS virtual filesystem for the GNU Hurd

2012-04-23 Thread Samuel Thibault
Simon McVittie, le Mon 23 Apr 2012 17:04:50 +0100, a écrit : > On 23/04/12 10:20, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > [Hurd has] an incomplete procfs already. It doesn't have /proc/mounts, > > because it's not a trivial thing to implement: since mounts are > > distributed, there is no central place where f

Re: Bug#669647: ITP: hurd-cvsfs -- CVS virtual filesystem for the GNU Hurd

2012-04-23 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2012-04-23 at 11:20 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Roger Leigh, le Mon 23 Apr 2012 09:44:32 +0100, a écrit : > > While it's great that Hurd can support all of these esoteric > > translators, in terms of making Hurd a viable *Debian* port, > > we really only need a few specific ones: > > >

Re: Bug#669647: ITP: hurd-cvsfs -- CVS virtual filesystem for the GNU Hurd

2012-04-23 Thread Samuel Thibault
Roger Leigh, le Mon 23 Apr 2012 15:55:29 +0100, a écrit : > For mtab, it's probably not even strictly necessary for this to be in > /proc/mounts. It could be a translator on /etc/mtab directly? (If > a translator can be a single file?) A translator can be a single file. But since many scripts w

Re: Bug#669647: ITP: hurd-cvsfs -- CVS virtual filesystem for the GNU Hurd

2012-04-23 Thread Roger Leigh
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 03:47:18PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > around large amounts of code and extra initscripts to generate > > > mtab for the only system which does not support /proc/mounts > > > (Hurd). A procfs translator (even an incomplete one) would > > > allow all this (barely teste

Re: Bug#669647: ITP: hurd-cvsfs -- CVS virtual filesystem for the GNU Hurd

2012-04-23 Thread Roger Leigh
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 11:20:00AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Roger Leigh, le Mon 23 Apr 2012 09:44:32 +0100, a écrit : > > While it's great that Hurd can support all of these esoteric > > translators, in terms of making Hurd a viable *Debian* port, > > we really only need a few specific ones:

Re: Bug#669647: ITP: hurd-cvsfs -- CVS virtual filesystem for the GNU Hurd

2012-04-23 Thread Samuel Thibault
Roger Leigh, le Mon 23 Apr 2012 09:44:32 +0100, a écrit : > While it's great that Hurd can support all of these esoteric > translators, in terms of making Hurd a viable *Debian* port, > we really only need a few specific ones: > > - tmpfs > - procfs > - ext?fs They are already there. > - sysfs

Re: Bug#669647: ITP: hurd-cvsfs -- CVS virtual filesystem for the GNU Hurd

2012-04-23 Thread Roger Leigh
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 09:18:30AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le vendredi 20 avril 2012 à 20:23 +0200, Samuel Thibault a écrit : > > * Package name: hurd-cvsfs > > Aren’t you late by 19 days? (This isn't intended as a criticism of this specific ITP.) While it's great that Hurd can sup

Re: Bug#669647: ITP: hurd-cvsfs -- CVS virtual filesystem for the GNU Hurd

2012-04-23 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 20 avril 2012 à 20:23 +0200, Samuel Thibault a écrit : > * Package name: hurd-cvsfs Aren’t you late by 19 days? -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Bug#669647: ITP: hurd-cvsfs -- CVS virtual filesystem for the GNU Hurd

2012-04-20 Thread Samuel Thibault
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Samuel Thibault * Package name: hurd-cvsfs Version : 0.0.0~git-20120420 Upstream Author : Stefan Siegl * URL : www.gnu.org/s/hurd/hurd/translator/cvsfs.html * License : gpl2+ Programming Lang: C Description : CVS