block 621820 by 577494 reassign 621820 xfce4-netload-plugin retitle 621820 xfce4-netload-plugin: Needs to be ported from if_ppp to ppp(8) on GNU/kFreeBSD thanks
Hi! On Wed, 2011-05-25 at 18:54:33 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > On Mon, 2011-04-25 at 23:45:00 +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > > reassign 621820 kfreebsd-kernel-headers > > > > On lun., 2011-04-25 at 12:28 +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > > > On Linux arches net/ppp_defs.h and net/if_ppp.h are provided by > > > libc6-dev. On kFreeBSD it's a bit different, the headers are only > > > provided in (versioned) kfreebsd-headers-* packages, and they are > > > located in /usr/src/kfreebsd-headers-8.2-1/sys/ > > > > > > I don't think it's a good idea to build-dep on versioned kernel > > > headers > > > nor passing a (versioned) -I to the build, that'd be too much trouble. > > > > > > Any idea how to fix that? > > > After discussing this with Cyril on irc it seems the solution might be > > to include the relevant header files in kfreebsd-kernel-headers, so > > reassigning. > > kFreeBSD 8.0+ does not have if_ppp any longer, so this is not > possible, the fix upstream proposes seems to be to port to ppp(8), as > seen from the removal commit log: > > <http://www.mail-archive.com/svn-src-all@freebsd.org/msg07293.html> > > <http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ppp&sektion=8> > > This bug should be reassigned back I guess. Done so now, we don't currently have ppp for GNU/kFreeBSD yet but once xfce4-netload-plugin gets ported to it, that would not disallow the package from being built any longer. regards, guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
