Re: Debian GNU/kFreeBSD

2011-02-13 Thread Mark Linimon
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 10:12:05AM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: What is it that this Debian GNU/kFreeBSD ships in those 7 DVDs? Please ask that on one of their mailing lists; it's out of scope for the two mailing lists you posted to. mcl ___

Re: freebsd-update(8) under sparc64? Why is it not available?

2010-03-24 Thread Mark Linimon
You're the first one to ask in a while. Since our userbase is small, and developer time is limited, we've never set it up. Right now I'd just be happy if I can get all the major ports to work :-) mcl ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: trouble installing to sun blade 1500

2009-12-01 Thread Mark Linimon
On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 05:07:18PM +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: in case it matters, I see nexus0: syscons type unknown (no driver attached) nexus0: memory-controller mem 0x400-0x47 type memory-controller (no driver attached) messages on boot. I

Re: ion windows manager on FreeBSD

2009-10-02 Thread Mark Linimon
On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 05:32:31PM +0400, Dmitry Marakasov wrote: Do you honestly think the probability of Tuomo suing us is higher of, say, me suing, well, us? Yes. That is exactly what I am saying. And I believe reading the entire thread when this first came up supports my claim. mcl

Re: ion windows manager on FreeBSD

2009-10-01 Thread Mark Linimon
On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 03:45:46PM +0400, Dmitry Marakasov wrote: Now it's LGPLv2.1 with the only restriction that this software may not be significantly changed while being distributed as ion3. I hate to replay this whole issue from the beginning, but apparently there is no other way. The

Re: ion windows manager on FreeBSD

2009-10-01 Thread Mark Linimon
On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 02:58:23PM +0400, Dmitry Marakasov wrote: No need to, if it works fine and there are no objections for it, I'll commit it to the tree. I insist that you not to commit it to the tree. See my other post. mcl ___

Re: ion windows manager on FreeBSD

2009-09-30 Thread Mark Linimon
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 03:05:08PM +0400, Dmitry Marakasov wrote: I've seen the license change too. I'm working on the port currently. As a reminder, the last time this software was in the ports tree, the developer threatened us with a lawsuit. This repeats what he has previously done to

Re: ports lang/gcc4x fail to build on ia64

2009-08-17 Thread Mark Linimon
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 02:57:52PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: Ports lang/gcc43, 44 and 45 fail to build on 8.0-beta2 ia64: http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=40959 I know they build fine on 6.4-stable alpha, but what about sparc64? amd64? mips? You can check things like this

Re: ports lang/gcc4x fail to build on ia64

2009-08-17 Thread Mark Linimon
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 03:51:24PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I wonder if they work under ia64 linux? I don't know. A quick check of NetBSD seems to indicate that their ia64 port only runs in emulation mode; OpenBSD doesn't list an ia64 port. mcl

Re: ports missing their packages.

2008-10-29 Thread Mark Linimon
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 04:09:23PM +0800, FBSD1 wrote: An alternate solution to this problem is to allow users to upload missing packages one word for you: security. What you suggest is never, ever, going to be implemented, due to the total lack of security. mcl

Re: ports missing their packages.

2008-10-29 Thread Mark Linimon
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 04:42:18AM -0500, Scot Hetzel wrote: So you are advocating that port maintainers have to create packages for all the supported FreeBSD architecture's (amd64, arm, i386, ia64, mips, pc98, powerpc, sparc64, sun4v). That would be 9 packages needing to be created at the

Re: ports missing their packages.

2008-10-29 Thread Mark Linimon
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 05:02:14PM +0800, joeb wrote: How does kdenetwork-kopete-0.12.8 or php5-gd or pdflib fit into those reasons you gave? A little research shows: ftp://ftp4.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7-stable/All/php5-gd-5.2.6_2.tbz So, there is a current package for

Re: ports missing their packages.

2008-10-29 Thread Mark Linimon
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 05:55:20AM -0700, mdh wrote: email the FreeBSD Foundation and find out how much cash it'd take for additional hardware to make that a reality, then send them that much cash. We are actually set up ok on amd64 machines right now (incremental package builds take just

Re: I can't make world without the games group?

2008-08-02 Thread Mark Linimon
On Sat, Aug 02, 2008 at 06:48:27PM +0200, Redd Vinylene wrote: Why does FreeBSD pack so much, pardon my language, bullshit anyway? Because no one has done the necessary QA work to factor things out and make them work. mcl ___

Re: FreeBSD bind performance in FreeBSD 7

2008-03-05 Thread Mark Linimon
* I am trying to understand what is different about the ISC configuration but have not yet found the cause. It's called Anti-FreeBSD bias. You won't find anything. If this is true, please try to explain to me the following: - ISC hosts 5 Netra 1s that comprise most of our sparc64 package

Re: Xorg Modular

2007-05-04 Thread Mark Linimon
On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 02:26:20AM -0300, Jason Hills wrote: Yeah, Kris mentioned something like that in a private mail, but google didnt help me, nor http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/ :( http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?461FE03C.8000406

Re: /pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5-stable/All

2007-01-11 Thread Mark Linimon
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 02:00:08AM -0500, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 05:57:56PM +1100, Ian Smith wrote: Hi Kris, I know things must be pretty busy with 6.2, but is there any chance that the 5.5-STABLE packages can be updated soon? I just checked again, and at least

Re: Bugzilla instead of current problem system for bugs and features?

2007-01-06 Thread Mark Linimon
On Sat, Jan 06, 2007 at 11:53:31AM +0300, Abdullah Al-Marrie wrote: I just don't feel the current bug system is good for the FreeBSD growing community This question has been extensively discussed on various mailing lists over the past 2 years. The migration problem is not as easy as you seem

Re: portsdb -Uu broken on AMD64 system

2006-07-21 Thread Mark Linimon
This has already been fixed. Please re-cvsup and try again. mcl ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Has the port collection become to large to handle.

2006-05-14 Thread Mark Linimon
On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 02:04:55PM +0300, Panagiotis Astithas wrote: I believe that one solution to the scalability problem of creating and maintaining updated packages, would be to decentralize it more. Each time I submit an update for one of the ports I maintain, I've already build the

Re: pppd

2005-10-25 Thread Mark Linimon
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 10:56:35AM +0400, Alexander Pyhalov wrote: I use the last port collection, but there is only 2.3.11 version of pppd there. Are there any plans for updating it? The first place you should always ask about plans to update a port is the maintainer. If the maintainer is

Re: Portupgrade in Xfree86 pkg failed

2005-06-25 Thread Mark Linimon
On Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 09:14:26AM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Why are you building xfree86? FreeBSD 5.4 uses Xorg. It's just about the same code just different licensing. I don't think the FreeBSD core is bothering to keep the xfree86 port working on FreeBSD 5.X just FreeBSD 4.11 I'm

Re: Portupgrade in Xfree86 pkg failed

2005-06-25 Thread Mark Linimon
On Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 02:45:45PM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: I'm sorry to step on the toes of the port maintainer but instead of complaining about it you need to respond to the realitites. In general I would rather do that than argue, yes. make: don't know how to make /drm.h. Stop ***