Matthias Andree wrote:
Am 08.09.2011 13:52, schrieb Matt Burke:
I want machines, tools, to do as *I* say not the other way round, whether
it's good for me or not. If I wanted nannying and interference, I'd install
Ubuntu.
No, you'd use a managed installation. Nobody stands there
Matthias Andree wrote:
Am 08.09.2011 16:15, schrieb Mikhail T.:
Having a poor port of an obscure
piece of software is better, than no port at all.
A poor port is undesirable (and shouldn't be in the tree in the first
place).
Wrong.
A `poor' port is is still a port else it would be
Hi,
If not, see to backups and/or migration in due time. We can't possibly
support software that is unsupported by the vendor, but that's what
We already do. Been working just fine for many years. No I wont
tell you where, because I don't trust you a few other irresponsible
ports crusaders
Matthias Andree wrote:
An obscure piece of software is undesirable (and shouldn't be ported in
the first place).
Bullshit!
I think that suffices. If the discussion is getting emotional, we
should stop it.
No. You should stop advocating killing ports, or leave, or be revoked.
FreeBSD
Hi,
Reference:
From: Doug Barton do...@freebsd.org
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 01:40:27 -0700
Message-id: 4e6b227b.5050...@freebsd.org
Doug Barton wrote:
The way that the FreeBSD project handles deleted ports is to leave them
in the CVS repository, where they are easily
If the author of another package stated that maintenance ceased, that is
no longer the case. Any why let port users fall into this pit? They
You advocate digging the pit. The hole where the ports was.
Cheers,
Julian
--
Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich
No, I won't tell you which window manager, because if I want to use it
again I don't want to discover that calling it to the minds of some of
the ports people caused it to be deleted.
That summarises it. I too avoided mentioning a port for fear of the
immature kids who destroy ports. At least
Hi,
Reference:
From: Chris Rees cr...@freebsd.org
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:44:37 +0100
Message-id:
cadlo83-zcvaeyznw5dtehv1tosburzllr2hjxfjrx_qewph...@mail.gmail.com
Chris Rees wrote:
On 12 September 2011 22:18, Julian H. Stacey j...@berklix.com wrote:
Matthias
Chris Rees wrote:
On 12 September 2011 22:18, Julian H. Stacey j...@berklix.com wrote:
Matthias Andree wrote:
An obscure piece of software is undesirable (and shouldn't be ported in
the first place).
Bullshit!
I think that suffices. If the discussion is getting emotional, we
Hi,
Reference:
From: Chris Rees cr...@freebsd.org
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 19:25:01 +0100
Message-id:
CADLo838gUfrGhOYWYBym=5yiatyjy8r9bndxcu8gmbjebre...@mail.gmail.com
Chris Rees wrote:
On 13 September 2011 18:54, Julian H. Stacey j...@berklix.com wrote:
Hi
Matthias Andree wrote:
claim, please fix, until end 2011, in mail/procmail, in collaboration
with sunpoet@:
Procmail works for me, for a friend, others on list.
It was remains irresponsible to try to force satisfied users to fix other
people's reported problems on threat of ports being
Hi ports@
libtool is not honouring the -static in my /etc/make.conf
grep CFLAGS /etc/make.conf
CFLAGS += -DJHSJHSX=JHSJHSX # Debug
CFLAGS += -static # for /usr/ports/sysutils/ntfsprogs
CFLAGS += -pipe # Not on hosts with little RAM
CFLAGS +=
Kaya Saman wrote:
Hi,
I'm running FreeBSD version 8.0 x64 edition on my server with multiple
jails.
Detail deleted
Can anyone help with my issues??
8.0 is too old, November 2009
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/
8.0 Is not supported.
http://www.freebsd.org/security/security.html#sup
-8859-1; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
On 11/25/2011 02:51 PM, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
Kaya Saman wrote:
Hi,
I'm running FreeBSD version 8.0 x64 edition on my server with multiple
jails.
Detail deleted
Can anyone help with my issues??
8.0 is too old, November
From: Chris Rees cr...@freebsd.org
Well, whatever he says, he can't revoke the license of what's already
been distributed.
# Copyright (c) 2008 Rick Sanders rfs9...@earthlink.net #
#
Mikhail Tsatsenko wrote:
On 08.04.2012 05:25, Mark Linimon wrote:
portmgr's policy is to honor removal requests, no matter the circumstances.
If someone wants to fork the last free release and host it somewhere, I
would be less concerned in that case.
mcl
I'd like to create a fork, but
.freebsd.org/sites/ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/imap_tools_V1.135.tar.gz\
Julian H. Stacey:\
http://berklix.com/~jhs/contact/:\
Tue Apr 10 14:30:17 CEST 2012
Cheers,
Julian
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Boris Samorodov wrote:
On 10.04.2012 16:34, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
Maintainer of mail/imaptools (Boris) is welcome to add me to a list of
witnesses:
Thanks for your help but there is no need at the particular case.
The port was fixed yesterday and the distfile is at FreeBSD distfile
Hi,
Mark Linimon wrote:
On 9 April 2012 17:49, Julian H. Stacey j...@berklix.com wrote:
portmgr's policy is to honor removal requests, no matter the circumstances.
Irresponsible. Real 'Managers' shoulder
Doug Barton wrote:
On 04/09/2012 15:21, Da Rock wrote:
To stick my nose where it probably doesn't belong: indeed. This is one
area where linux annoys the most for that very reason.
Let the user decide and bear the responsibility.
If you want to put up a server with all the encumbered
Doug Barton wrote:
That's fine, but our process mandates that any committer who makes the
update needs to verify the diff between the two tarballs.
On 02/24/10 09:31, Wesley Shields wrote:
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 01:25:39PM +0300, Ruslan Mahmatkhanov wrote:
On 24.02.2010 02:45, Wesley
Dominic Fandrey wrote:
Just out of curiosity, is anyone working on porting k3b 2.0?
I'd like to get rid of the KDE3 legacy. Especially, because
kdelibs3 is such a pain to build (fails if openssl-1.0 is present).
I've seen kdelibs fail on 2 x amd64 8.1-RC2, breaking build of
Dominic Fandrey wrote:
On 28/07/2010 11:23, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
Dominic Fandrey wrote:
Just out of curiosity, is anyone working on porting k3b 2.0?
I'd like to get rid of the KDE3 legacy. Especially, because
kdelibs3 is such a pain to build (fails if openssl-1.0 is present).
I've
Mirroring must be atomic (mirror to temporary directory then rename).
That could double disc requirement, reduce mirror sites willing
to provide space ?
Cheers,
Julian
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Mail plain text. Not HTML, Not
Marcin Wisnicki wrote:
On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:43:43 +0200, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
Mirroring must be atomic (mirror to temporary directory then rename).
That could double disc requirement, reduce mirror sites willing to
provide space ?
Indeed it would. But there is no other way
Submitter-Id: current-users
Originator:Julian H. Stacey
Organization: http://berklix.com BSD Linux Unix Consultancy, Munich/Muenchen.
Confidential: no
Synopsis: current ports Mk make fetch calls wget fails to support schemes
Severity: serious
Priority: high
Category
Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
...
Hmm... Can't reproduce it here, but this is now the 2nd report of this
problem to hit -ports.
...
Thanks for looking,
I'll send you more of my env. by private mail off list
Eric Masson wrote:
Jeremy Chadwick free...@jdc.parodius.com writes:
Hi,
Hmm...
Hi,
I just added FreeBSD Release Engineers r...@freebsd.org
as vmware might not be aware of that address.
-
Reference:
From: Andriy Gapon a...@freebsd.org
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 20:20:58 +0300
Message-id: 4ca223fa.3010...@freebsd.org
Andriy Gapon wrote:
on
For over a year when trying to double the size of xmms the graphic
would become garbled. It was easy to kill the process, so I would just
leave it normal size.
FYI I've seen that garbling too on amd64 7.1-REL i386 7.2-REL
Cheers,
Julian
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Wayne Sierke wrote:
As a work-around I launch xmms with this command:
/usr/bin/env XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1 /usr/local/bin/xmms
Great, works here, Thanks
Cheers,
Julian
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Mail in plain ASCII text; HTML
Hi,
Reference:
From: David Wolfskill da...@catwhisker.org
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 12:03:54 -0700
David Wolfskill wrote:
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 02:47:02PM -0400, carmel_ny wrote:
I have three TomTom GPS's. Presently, I am forced to use Windows to
manage/update them. I just
Hi Miguel
Hi Julian and David,
I could a co-operate with Miguel F on debug probes etc if he wants
( though I dont want to wipe destroy my GPS, theyre too useful :-)
Cheers,
Julian
I can assure you that I don't know of any GPS destroyed by GPSMan
since its first version back in
Hi m...@freebsd.org
cc: po...@freebsd.org
A hint would be welcome please with sysutils/libcdio, Paranoia stuff seems
broken, but I'm not clear what's intended, hence mail rather than a send-pr.
uname -a
FreeBSD laps.js.berklix.net 7.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE #2: \
Wed Sep 9
, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
A hint would be welcome please with sysutils/libcdio, Paranoia stuff seems
broken, but I'm not clear what's intended, hence mail rather than a send-pr.
uname -a
FreeBSD laps.js.berklix.net 7.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE #2: \
Wed Sep 9 11:33:57 CEST
!
(CC: devel/gvfs maintainer added)
Thanks for reporting this issue.
On Nov 15, 2009, at 22:51 , Julian H. Stacey wrote:
int would be welcome please with sysutils/libcdio, Paranoia stuff seems
broken, but I'm not clear what's intended, hence mail rather than a
send-pr
Hi ports@ people,
Suggestion: A new variable for a few ports Makefiles, eg
/usr/ports/www/opera/Makefile
BINARY=To install binaries lacking sources, use RISK_BINARIES=YES
to over-ride it one would use eg
cd /usr/ports ; make RISK_BINARIES=YES install
It could work similarly to
...@freebsd.org wrote:
On 1/20/2010 6:47 PM, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
Some may not don't mind
installing binaries from elsewhere, but FreeSBD could protect more,
What is it that you're trying to protect people from? In other words,
what bad thing do you think is going to happen
I have attached to this email a patch that update the nzbget port to
release 11.0 and add support for staging.
My work is based on https://wiki.freebsd.org/ports/StageDir but this is
the first time I modify a port file, so any comments are welcome.
Nicolas
Hi, Use send-pr so your work
Hi, Reference:
From: Ajtim lum...@gmail.com
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 06:39:15 -0400
Ajtim wrote:
My system: FreeBSD 10.0-BETA1
When I built print/lyx I got:
fatal error: too many errors emitted, stopping now [-ferror-limit=]
Mine on 10.0-BETA1:
6 errors generated.
As
Has anyone looked at making a ports wrapper for
https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
?
Sources:
https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere/development
PS on current/ports, grep https-everywhere shows nothing,
grep www.eff.org shows just security/switzerland/, port creator
Alexey Dokuchaev
On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 02:34:00PM +0100, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
Has anyone looked at making a ports wrapper for
https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere ?
Sources: https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere/development
PS on current/ports, grep https-everywhere shows nothing,
grep
Hi po...@freebsd.org
I'm looking for ports/math/hexcalc or replacement it dissapeared after
8.2-RELEASE, it's not in http://www.freebsd.org/ports/math.html
How should one find:
Why it dissapeared ?
(eg maybe it just lacked a maintainer I have to re-port it? Or ... ?
What to replace
Dimitry Andric wrote:
--Apple-Mail=_442D467F-1929-40CE-90B7-0CAD6B1BC540
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset=us-ascii
On 28 Jan 2014, at 16:28, Julian H. Stacey j...@berklix.com wrote:
Hi po...@freebsd.org
I'm looking for ports/math/hexcalc
Hi ports@
I changed Subject:
From:
Re: How to find removed ports in general math/hexcalc in particular.
To:
ports/math/hexcalc restored from 8.2 now runs on 9.1 9.2 10.0
+ cc'd FYI Maintainer of x11/xcalc (a scientific not hexadecimal calculator)
grep hexcalc /usr/ports/MOVED
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ren=E9_Ladan?= wrote:
2014-01-30 Kevin Oberman rkober...@gmail.com:
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 7:04 PM, Julian H. Stacey j...@berklix.com wrote:
Hi ports@
I changed Subject:
From:
Re: How to find removed ports in general math/hexcalc in particular.
To:
ports
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ren=E9_Ladan?= wrote:
2014-01-30 Julian H. Stacey j...@berklix.com:
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ren=E9_Ladan?= wrote:
2014-01-30 Kevin Oberman rkober...@gmail.com:
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 7:04 PM, Julian H. Stacey j...@berklix.com
wrote:
Hi ports@
I changed Subject:
From
The failure is when using FreeBSD-10. With FreeBSD-8 it works great. I
Building ports on 10.0-RELEASE is lots more trouble than 9.2-RELEASE.
10.0-RELEASE built 874, 9.2-RELEASE built 953 still making, with
http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/src/bsd/fixes/freebsd/ports/jhs/*/Makefile.local
cd
be beneficial in a very short amount of time. Even if you prefer to
compile from source,
I use source, rarely if ever use packages, (except pkg_delete
to remove old broken dependencies). No opinion which scrips are better.
you will still reap the benefits of the modern
packaging system.
Matthew Seaman wrote:
On 03/02/2014 21:24, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
be beneficial in a very short amount of time. Even if you prefer to
compile from source,
=20
I use source, rarely if ever use packages, (except pkg_delete
to remove old broken dependencies). No opinion which scrips
Michel Talon wrote:
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Michel Talon wrote:
So
how to interact with local.sqlite?
Thanks Michel,
Noted.
Would you please consider running send-pr to submit that for man 5 ?
Prepending
EXAMPLES
Appending
SEE ALSO pkg(8)
There is no src/share/man/man5/local.sqlite.5
in both 10.0-RELEASE
--- Blind-Carbon-Copy
To: Howard Goldstein [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Lorenzo Perone [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: CFS Cryptographic file system.
From: Julian Stacey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Organization: http://berklix.com BSD Unix Linux Consultancy, Munich Germany
User-agent:
Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
The subject line pretty much says it all.
Additional to other ideas so far,
You could also make a chroot, install normal bins from src,
install all your ports, ^D to exit chroot, then do a compare strip with eg:
cd chroot ;
find . -type f -exec cmpd -d {} / \;
Hi po...@freebsd.org
I asked din...@freebsd.org (cc'd) the following a month back,
but seen no reply, (maybe he's busy or away, or a spam filter ate it),
so does anyone else have ideas ? Thanks.
The 2 .png I removed from MIME in previous mail put here for ports@ list:
From: dirk.me...@dinoex.sub.org (Dirk Meyer)
Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 21:38:53 +0200
Hallo Julian H. Stacey,
Hi Dirk,
Thanks for looking, to keep others if any in the loop, I restored
cc: po...@freebsd.org
I asked din...@freebsd.org (cc'd) the following a month back
Hi, Reference:
From: =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Jo=BEe_Zobec?= jozze.z...@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 20:04:30 +0200
Apart from the maintainer of the port, there would also be sub
maintainerswhich would be those people who helped patch the port into the
good shape:
# make -C
Hi po...@freebsd.org
While making my standard collection of ports on 8.4-RELEASE
(yes I also have 9.2 10 on other partitions on some but not all hosts)
I saw numerous examples similar to:
cd /usr/ports/multimedia/ogmrip ; make
=== ogmrip-1.0.0 depends on executable: mencoder - found
===
Hi ports@
textproc/gnome-translate/Makefile MAINTAINER=ports
Anyone know how to set gnome-translate to talk to the proxy ?
(I'm not running gnome as wm but fvwm2,
so rather reluctant to need to dig for some gnome proxy manager)
(my proxy works fine for various clients inc. firefox, epiphany
Hi freebsd-gn...@freebsd.org
I'm not on freebsd-gnome@ (just on ports@)
I discovered freebsd-gnome@ after the mail below to ports@
bounced on Cc: to author Jean-Yves Lefort jylef...@brutele.be
I then found Jean-Yves in FreeBSD GNOME alumni (with no address) on
Users of FreeBSD 6.4 and 8.0 are advised to upgrade promptly to a newer
release,
ISDN Users of 6 be aware: 7 8 dropped inbuilt ISDN.
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2010-September/058549.html
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-isdn/2009-June/000897.html
Hello,
As I said some weeks ago I personally don't like much the use of
ports/{french,chinese,whatever}/ directories. I saw that openbsd
created sub directories in the aspell port. I think this is a really
good idea, it's really easier to find.
I don't think german/ispell
Hi,
Reference:
From: Yasuhiro KIMURA y...@utahime.org
Yasuhiro KIMURA wrote:
Hello all,
I'm a maintainer of mail/c-sig and resently found that master site of
the port had disappeared.
I still want to continue using and maintaining this port and have
distfiles in my local disk.
So is it possible to host these distfiles in MASTER_SITE_LOCAL defined
in bsd.site.mk?
That would only solve it for you, not the rest
Please ignore that line, it's wrong, I had not meant to send it,
my edit error, Sorry !
PS I've just sent a dmesg re lang/pbasic to fix bit rot there.
/branches/amd64/-current/ports/www/chromium
] From: Julian H. Stacey j...@berklix.com
] cc: Julian H. Stacey j...@berklix.com
] Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 18:51:26 +0100
] Sender: j...@berklix.com
]
] Hi,
] Reference:
] From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ren=E9_Ladan?= r...@freebsd.org
] Date
Hi,
Reference:
From: Mark Linimon lini...@lonesome.com
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 00:48:50 +
Message-id: 20110118004850.gb17...@lonesome.com
Mark Linimon wrote:
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 08:12:40PM +0100, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
rene@ has ignored request to roll back
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 01:13:19PM +0100, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
Hi,
Reference:
From: Mark Linimon lini...@lonesome.com=20
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 00:48:50 +=20
Message-id: 20110118004850.gb17...@lonesome.com=20
Hi,
Reference:
From: Baptiste Daroussin b...@freebsd.org
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 15:13:40 +0100
Message-id: aanlktincbj-xuhslwer0lwoqqbxzcf0wmz3xjdcs5...@mail.gmail.com
Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
A MAINTAINER who does not maintain is not a maintainer.
Makefile broke in
Hi Rene,
Your mailer is emitting many \xa0
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ren=E9_Ladan?= wrote:
2011/1/18 Julian H. Stacey j...@berklix.com:
Hi,
Reference:
From: Mark Linimon lini...@lonesome.com
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 00:48:50 +
Message-id: 20110118004850.gb17...@lonesome.com
Bahman Kahinpour wrote:
After going through a hard time on installing HP LaserJet P1102 on
FreeBSD 8.1, I decided to write this.
*** Installing HP LaserJet P1102 on FreeBSD 8.1 ***
Nice, Well done for documenting :-) I dont have such a printer
myself, but seems valuable, probably applies to
Matthew Seaman wrote:
On 16/05/2011 13:02, Jerry wrote:
x - expired
This report is over 2 years old. If no one has bothered to fix it
by now, then in all probability no one will.
I've had PRs committed after spending many years in the queue. Just
because it's old doesn't mean
Hi Klaus, looks like you lost, so I restored:
cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Reference:
From: Klaus T. Aehlig aeh...@linta.de
Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 01:49:10 +0100
Message-id: 20110517004910.gd94...@curry.linta.de
Klaus T. Aehlig wrote:
Hallo,
Might it be
Can someone else please breakage on ports/comms/gammu ? or suggest
Should be:
Can someone else please confirm breakage on ports/comms/gammu ? or suggest
Julian
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Mail plain text; Not quoted-printable, Not HTML,
Hi b...@freebsd.org po...@freebsd.org
Can someone else please breakage on ports/comms/gammu ? or suggest
a solution ?; Is this just my hosts environment, or general ?
cd /usr/ports/comms/gammu ; make clean ; make
[ 70%] Building C object gammu-detect/CMakeFiles/gammu-detect.dir/main.o
C. P. Ghost wrote:
On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 3:53 PM, fr...@getnet.com wrote:
Hello,
I have updated ports and when reinstalling I found x11-wm/olvwm which I was
using was gone from the ports tree. Why?
I noticed that too, and was bit by that change as well.
Since I love the olvwm look
Hi ports@,
Any reccomendations what tools are best to edit new PDFs please ?
As discussed on another thread on this list, openoffice doesnt build here,
so reccomendations of smaller tools would be nice please.
Ideally native. I dont really want the hastle of linux emulation,
(though rather that
Anyone know of public domain source that does XBRL format (/or iXBRL) ?
PDF V1.6 1.7 ?
What XBRL is:
A newish format the British government now demand for all
corporate annual financial returns (eg British CT600)
Already supported by numerous commercial software vendors, see:
From: b. f. bf1...@googlemail.com
Hi .b.f, Thanks for reply :-)
b. f. wrote:
Anyone know of public domain source that does XBRL format (/or iXBRL) ?
PDF V1.6 1.7 ?
XBRL:
http://arelle.org (python-based)
http://www.xbrlapi.org/ (java-based)
Hi,
Reference:
From: Chris Rees utis...@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 12:18:05 +0100
Message-id:
CADLo83-kEaQyFOiR45WmYdOru8vqu-MhAgb9p=ohjoo-tvu...@mail.gmail.com
Chris Rees wrote:
Hi all,
I'm trying to clear some PRs from freebsd-ports-bugs, and I've found
that
software is broken, if you want FreeBSD to continue to support/provide
it someone needs to fix it.'
Thanks for the reply Chris.
Cheers,
Julian
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Reply below, not above; Indent with ; Cumulative like a
Hi Mark,
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 04:36:23PM +0200, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
Better to leave the port marked as having some run errors in some
circumstances, that we dont have manpower for, but leave port in
tree.
Then we have the situation of a user spends the time to install it only
Hi ports team,
cc: Vadim Goncharov vadim_nucli...@mail.ru
Senior/ central ports team people who are competent, happy
authorised to hack in /usr/ports/Mk/* on pkg tools etc, please
notice ports package infrastructure ideas in thread:
From Vadim Goncharov
Wed Aug 17 23:25:37 UTC
Mark Linimon wrote:
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 02:57:17AM +0200, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
I'd question _why_ valuable people like you Chris would allow
your time to be distracted merely to try to get repair run time
capability of a port.
I haven't spent any time on this port. I'm just
Matthias Andree wrote:
Am 30.08.2011 10:23, schrieb Sunpoet Po-Chuan Hsieh:
sunpoet 2011-08-30 08:23:18 UTC
FreeBSD ports repository
Modified files:
mail/procmailMakefile
Log:
- Take maintainership
Revision ChangesPath
1.60 +1 -1
... the US
patent system has become horribly broken in practice. The world's
biggest patent-holders that actually produce anything pretty much all
agree that the system is horribly broken, and mostly collect patents for
defensive use.
Not just USA but Europe too, etc.
A European Patent
Hi,
Suggestion: pkgdb is too cryptic even with -v,
it needs more explanation what it is up to
particularly what decisions it asks from user
(I started with 8.2-Release pkgdb then moved to current pkgdb,
some fragments of run examples below):
% pkgdb -F -v
Checking for
Michal,
Nice analogy !
Nobody is really steering this ship anymore and it just happily
rams icebergs along the way, with volunteers occasionally throwing
buckets of water (and sometimes pieces of furniture) overboard to
somehow keep it afloat for a while longer.
Furniture like
Hi,
Reference:
From: Julian H. Stacey j...@berklix.com
Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2011 03:07:40 +0200
Message-id: 201109020107.p8217efj089...@fire.js.berklix.net
I wrote:
Microsoft must grin at all us BSD, Linux, maybe Solaris presumably
even now http://www.minix3.org free
No /pub/FreeBSD/branches/-current/ports/ports-mgmt/pkgin .
I'm not familiar with pkgin, but nice to see OS co-operation.
So, what do you actually mean by this?
Re-read:
] Microsoft must grin at all us BSD, Linux,
] ... reinventing similar old ports shims for same old 3rd party
Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
On Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 11:49:48AM +0200, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
Hi,
Reference:
From: Julian H. Stacey j...@berklix.com=20
Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2011 03:07:40 +0200=20
Message-id: 201109020107.p8217efj089...@fire.js.berklix.net=20
Hi
I see this error (on current too)
cd /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/tk84
printenv
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/bin
TERM=xterm
PWD=/usr/ports
uname -a
FreeBSD blak.js.berklix.net 8.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE
#0: Thu May 19
Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
... but I am a
non-native user of the English language).
...
Correct English is good, but but plain, simple and common English is better.
Yes :-)
(I'm native English, but in Germany).
I also believe shorter sentences work better (in either language).
Easy to forget
Hi m...@freebsd.org
cc Ruslan ports@
Ruslan Mahmatkhanov wrote:
Julian H. Stacey wrote on 03.09.2011 15:38:
Hi
I see this error (on current too)
cd /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/tk84
printenv
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/bin
TERM=xterm
PWD=/usr
Hi,
Reference:
From: Chris Rees utis...@gmail.com
Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2011 20:21:10 +0100
Message-id:
CADLo83_A+Oh+i4ZFQ=KnZyvBk0h2pf+bJnjhYHm=5uyacje...@mail.gmail.com
Chris Rees wrote:
On 4 September 2011 17:56, Chris Rees utis...@gmail.com wrote:
Guys,
I've had to
Chris Rees wrote:
On 4 September 2011 21:32, Julian H. Stacey j...@berklix.com wrote:
Whoops, also missed a CVE -- buffer overflows can cause a DoS.
Expiration date altered to 1 month accordingly.
It is not responsible to threaten to remove ports without warning
between releases
Mark Linimon wrote:
On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 10:32:30PM +0200, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
It is not responsible to threaten to remove ports without warning
between releases for non urgent reasons.
portmgr has no such policy.
Ports get deleted all the time due to various issues. I prefer
Hi,
Doug Barton wrote:
On 09/05/2011 02:33, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
Chris Rees wrote:
On 4 September 2011 21:32, Julian H. Stacey j...@berklix.com wrote:
Whoops, also missed a CVE -- buffer overflows can cause a DoS.
Expiration date altered to 1 month accordingly
Matthias Andree mand...@freebsd.org wrote:
So either Kostik, or you, or someone else steps up to maintain the port
at least to the extent that the known security bugs and reported bugs
get fixed, or to hell the port goes.
Recent un-professional threats to throw out ports at un-necessarily
Hi,
Reference:
From: Doug Barton do...@freebsd.org
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2011 15:45:51 -0700
Message-id: 4e67f41f.70...@freebsd.org
Doug Barton wrote:
On 9/7/2011 10:02 AM, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
Doug Barton do...@freebsd.org wrote:
On 09/07/2011 00:07,
Sep 2011 02:29, Julian H. Stacey j...@berklix.com wrote:
Hi,
Reference:
From: Doug Barton do...@freebsd.org
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2011 15:45:51 -0700
Message-id: 4e67f41f.70...@freebsd.org
Doug Barton wrote:
On 9/7/2011 10:02 AM, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote
Matthias Andree wrote:
Am 07.09.2011 17:53, schrieb Mikhail T.:
The policy -- up until fairly recently -- was to remove ports, that
*fail to build* for a while. This made sense -- if the port remains
unbuildable long enough, then, certainly, it is no longer in use.
The /new/ policy
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