Purpose
The purpose of this page is to demonstrate that kfreebsd-i386 meets the architecture recertification criteria for etch.
If some of these requirements are irrelevant or implausible for the port, please add a waiver request indicating why and how this isn't a problem for the arch in bold.
Availability
The architecture is publicly available without NDAs via:
- etc ad nauseam
Developer machines
The following machines are available to developers:
io.debian.net - maintained by Aurelien Jarno and Gürkan Sengün, connectivity by ETH Zürich, Department of Physics.
friki.frikazos.com - maintained by Hector Garcia (access on request).
Port maintainers
The Debian port is maintained by the following developers, who are familiar with arch-specific issues for this port
- Robert Millan
GuillemJover (Debian Developer)
- Aurelien Jarno (Debian Developer)
- Petr Salinger
NOTE: We need at least 5 people listed here. You don't need permission from anyone; if you think you should be listed, just add yourself.
Users
As of 2006/03/21:
The port is being actively used at the following sites:
io.debian.net, with 51 users (check dynamic user counter).
- friki.frikazos.com, with 12 users.
The following lists of users are available:
http://buildd.net/cgi/archvote.phtml, lists 28 users.
Debian_GNU/kFreeBSD_userlist, lists 12 users (This list is deprecated in favour of the previous one, and currently has no duplicates.).
Popcon, lists 15 users.
Note that the following combinations sum up 50 or more users:
- io + buildd.net - io + popcon - buildd.net + wiki + popcon
Installer
Debian-Installer is not ported yet. A hacked version of FreeBSD installer is currently used.
Upstream support
Upstream support is provided by:
(note: i386 support is assumed. below we're talking about support of glibc and kfreebsd with each other, and support of the combination by the other components)
- glibc: No.
- gcc: No, but changeset is minimal (and already merged upstream).
- g++: Same here.
kernel: Not applicable.
- boot loader:
- FreeBSD loader: Upstream supports kFreeBSD (obviously).
- GRUB: Upstream supports UFS1 and UFS2, and loading kFreeBSD via /boot/loader.
Archive coverage and Autobuilder support
As of 2006-12-12, the port has currently built over 82% of the archive, the number of up-to-date packages is over 78% according to buildd.net, i.e. over 95% ever built packages are up-to-date. See also notes about our archive.
Archive cleanliness
The port builds from unmodified Debian source.
(Except a few packages that are provided separately in a third-party archive.)
Autobuilders
The following machines run buildds for the port:
- hagrid.debian.net - connectivity via 100MBps, hosted by ETH Zurich, Departement of physics, administrated by Aurelien Jarno.
- maxwell.aurel32.net - connectivity via 20MBps/1MBps ADSL, administrated by Aurelien Jarno.
- hertz.aurel32.net - connectivity via 20MBps/1MBps ADSL, administrated by Aurelien Jarno (secondary build daemon currently not running, but ready to build packages in a few seconds).
Vetoes
The security team have noted the following problems in supporting the architecture:
- None
The Debian admin team have noted the following problems in supporting the architecture:
- None
The release team have noted the following problems in supporting the architecture:
- None