Hurd IRC on freenode

2004-08-08 Thread John Williams
Hi team! I tried to join the Hurd IRC channel on freenode but was denied access: I was told I was banned! (my nick is jwilliams) Can anyone shed any light on this? TIA John

Re: K7 baseGNU

2004-08-08 Thread Philip Charles
On Sun, 8 Aug 2004, Jeff Bailey wrote: > On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 11:34:28PM +1200, Philip Charles wrote: > > > /libexec/rc error still occurs. > > > > New Hurd and glibc needed. > > We need glibc -16 (-15 still has one packaging bug for us that prevents > installation). A new Hurd package will be

Re: K7 baseGNU

2004-08-08 Thread Jeff Bailey
On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 11:34:28PM +1200, Philip Charles wrote: > /libexec/rc error still occurs. > > New Hurd and glibc needed. We need glibc -16 (-15 still has one packaging bug for us that prevents installation). A new Hurd package will be generated right after that. I'm hoping -16 goes in

K7 baseGNU

2004-08-08 Thread Philip Charles
Hi folks, Some progress has been made, but there are still problems. /libexec/rc error still occurs. New Hurd and glibc needed. coreutils 5.0.91-2 is needed to solve a chain of dependencies. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2

+kbsd or no +kbsd

2004-08-08 Thread Philip Charles
Checking which version to use. There are a number of packages in gnuab's Packages list which are duplicates, eg textutils_5.0.91-2.0.1+kbsd_all.deb textutils_5.0.91-2.0.1_all.deb They all seem to be *.all.deb's. Which are the prefered versions? Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, A

libfam

2004-08-08 Thread Robert Millan
Hi! I'm giving a run at porting libfam. It seems to have some breakage with declaration of sockaddr_un structures that (as I can recall) happens on both GNU and GNU/k*BSD. I sanitised these and seems to work now (see attached patch). Then I run into extra features related to signal handling th

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