Re: Retirement of drupal5 port
On 7 March 2011 15:25, Nick Hilliard n...@foobar.org wrote: Hello, http://drupal.org/node/880550 Drupal 5 will no longer be maintained when Drupal 7 is released. Upgrading to Drupal 6 is recommended. As drupal5 is now no longer maintained, I would like to schedule the removal of the freebsd drupal5 port from the ports tree at some stage in the near future. So, unless anyone has any overriding objections, my preference would be to see it deleted on or around 2011/06/01, i.e. 5 months after drupal7 is released, and about 2 months from now. Just for anyone following this, I've deprecated the drupal5* ports and switched to using bsd.drupal.mk in Mk/ rather than drupal5/ [1]. I've also sent in a PR to make a USE_DRUPAL knob to make it easier for ports to use the drupal macros [2]. Chris [1] http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/cvs-ports/2011-July/222066.html [2] http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/159288 -- Chris Rees | FreeBSD Developer cr...@freebsd.org | http://people.freebsd.org/~crees ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Time to mark portupgrade deprecated?
Chris Brennan wrote: On 7/26/2011 3:28 PM, RW wrote: It seems more reasonable than the idea that most people using FreeBSD are doing so despite being very unhappy with FreeBSD ports. If that's= really true then we should give Beastie nipple-clamps and a ball-gag to= better appeal to our key demographic. ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org= +1 just because the thought of that is funny as hell! As a testimonial to the diabolical nature of FreeBSD yesterday i have installed a PC with FreeBSD-8.2 RELEASE, using the distributed packages (pkg_add -r). When installing gimp, something went south. After some checks it was avahi-app which refused to install, the reason being that pw groupadd -n avahi failed, with the message: group disappeared during update This from /usr/src/usr.sbin/pw/pw_group.c line 271. How is it that such an error, perhaps due to some concurrent access bug, happens in such an irregular way that it is still present since many years? In my installation, several other packages used pw to add to the group and passwd files (hald, etc.) but the error was triggered only by avahi-app, on the other hand it was 100% reproductible for avahi-app. I have seen this problem many times in the past. The only way i was able to proceed was to run pkg_add -I -r avahi-app after that the other dependencies of gimp and gimp itself installed OK. I don't remember that this error was blocking in this way in the past, but it is very worrisome, i don't see a beginner being able to cope with such problem. Still another problem in my installation i have an inn server which sucks news via newsx. Inn installed OK but newsx doesn't appear on the freebsd repository. I try to compile newsx, of course it fails. The reason? the inn installation lacks all the configuration files under /usr/local/news/etc ! More than that the conf files appear nowhere on the machine! How a user is supposed to figure out how to write such files without the models at hand? I have installed inn several times, i have never seen that. Some maintainer has found judicious to remove the conf files (perhaps to avoid overwriting a preexisting installation, but this is the bad way to solve the problem). Anyways, without etc/inn.conf, newsx cannot compile, since it picks its own configuration from inn.conf. So by doing this change the inn maintainer has broken newsx inadvertently, and of course no one noticed. This is emblematic of many other ports which are mismanaged, introduce tons of unnecessary dependencies which complicate everything, etc. For example, installing the port xorg installed things such as pyton and ruby which have zero relation with the problem at hand. It also installed perl but this is required for autoconfiguration of the server, i think. On the bright side, installing xorg produced a working X11 display without any configuration except running dbusd and hald. I have at least one positive point to report, for the first time i see printing working in wxMaxima, in the past either it didn't work at all or coredumped. So someone has understood the printing problem in the wx toolkit, this is nice. This post is ways too long, but i hope more informative that comments such as Nuts ushered by some phd student who apparently value himself at tremendous heights. As to the poster objection, one may very well use FreeBSD for some other qualities, even if one is not happy with the state of the ports system. And to the more general objection that all this is unrelated to the thread subject, portupgrade, it is *extremely* related, because no upgrading tool can work, be it portupgrade, portmaster, or whatever, in the presence of the sorts of bugs i have described above in the basic ports system. An obvious flaw of portupgrade is that it is very slow, other than that i think it is a pretty good program. Similarly portmaster is a brilliant example of shell scripting and works OK as far as i can see. The real problems are in the ports system itself. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
nscd vs. ports that add user/group (Was: Time to mark portupgrade deprecated?)
Test Rat ttse...@gmail.com writes: As a testimonial to the diabolical nature of FreeBSD yesterday i have installed a PC with FreeBSD-8.2 RELEASE, using the distributed packages (pkg_add -r). When installing gimp, something went south. After some checks it was avahi-app which refused to install, the reason being that pw groupadd -n avahi failed, with the message: group disappeared during update [...] Did you have nscd(8) running at the time? Try invalidating its cache. Nevermind previous patch. This one actually works. %% it's still an ugly hack Index: usr.sbin/pw/pwupd.c === --- usr.sbin/pw/pwupd.c (revision 224499) +++ usr.sbin/pw/pwupd.c (working copy) @@ -191,6 +191,7 @@ pw_update(struct passwd * pwd, char const * user, } } } + system(nscd -I passwd 2/dev/null 2); return rc; } Index: usr.sbin/pw/grupd.c === --- usr.sbin/pw/grupd.c (revision 224499) +++ usr.sbin/pw/grupd.c (working copy) @@ -148,6 +148,7 @@ gr_update(struct group * grp, char const * group, } if (grbuf != NULL) free(grbuf); + system(nscd -I group 2/dev/null 2); return l; } %% ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: nscd vs. ports that add user/group (Was: Time to mark portupgrade deprecated?)
On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 04:02:55PM +0400, Test Rat wrote: Did you have nscd(8) running at the time? Try invalidating its cache. Nevermind previous patch. This one actually works. You may be perfectly right, i think i have added nscd to the installation after having added hald, etc. but before adding avahi-app. However i have seen such problems in the past, before the introduction of nscd, as far as i remember. %% it's still an ugly hack Index: usr.sbin/pw/pwupd.c === --- usr.sbin/pw/pwupd.c (revision 224499) +++ usr.sbin/pw/pwupd.c (working copy) @@ -191,6 +191,7 @@ pw_update(struct passwd * pwd, char const * user, } } } + system(nscd -I passwd 2/dev/null 2); return rc; } Index: usr.sbin/pw/grupd.c === --- usr.sbin/pw/grupd.c (revision 224499) +++ usr.sbin/pw/grupd.c (working copy) @@ -148,6 +148,7 @@ gr_update(struct group * grp, char const * group, } if (grbuf != NULL) free(grbuf); + system(nscd -I group 2/dev/null 2); return l; } %% Many thanks for the suggestion. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Claws-Mail marked as BROKEN
I am in the process of setting up a new PC and wanted to install claws-mail as my MUA. I have it all ready installed on another machine I use. This port, unfortunately, is marked: BROKEN= does not compile I sincerely hope that this is not going to be a permanent condition. I presently have claws-mail version 3.7.9 installed on another machine running FreeBSD-8.2/amd64, so I am not exactly sure why it all of a sudden stopped compiling. -- Carmel ✌ carmel...@hotmail.com ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Claws-Mail marked as BROKEN
Dnia 2011-07-30, o godz. 09:08:20 Carmel carmel...@hotmail.com napisał(a): I am in the process of setting up a new PC and wanted to install claws-mail as my MUA. I have it all ready installed on another machine I use. This port, unfortunately, is marked: BROKEN= does not compile I`m working on fix right now. If you comment this line it should compile just fine as problem appears to show only in clean tinderbuild environment (software we use to test our ports). I sincerely hope that this is not going to be a permanent condition. I presently have claws-mail version 3.7.9 installed on another machine running FreeBSD-8.2/amd64, so I am not exactly sure why it all of a sudden stopped compiling. Soon I will come up with patch and will commit today or tomorrow after my mentors approve my work. Sorry for delay I was little busy lately. -- pozdrawiam / with regards Paweł Pękala ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Time to mark portupgrade deprecated?
On Jul 30, 2011, at 4:03 AM, Michel Talon wrote: [ ... ] The real problems are in the ports system itself. You've said this before. Come to think of it, you've said this so often that I've lost count of the number of times you've repeated the point. However, flogging the same dead horse over and over does not constitute forward progress. Speaking of which, if you'd spent some of this time filing bug reports instead, then it's very likely that at least some of the issues you claim to keep running into would be fixed by now. However, as far as I can tell from a quick search, you've never filed even one FreeBSD PR? Methinks 'tis time to change your approach: The clock upbraids me with the waste of time. Regards, -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
portmaster unattended run?
Hello, Freebsd-ports. How could I run `portmaster' without ANY questions and confirmations? Simple and obvious `portmaster --no-confirm -y list of ports' doesn't work. It asks: (1) About interactive ports. (2) About removing old distfiles (3) About errors from `tar' when create backup archive with old versions. -- // Black Lion AKA Lev Serebryakov l...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: portmaster unattended run?
On 30 Jul 2011 18:44, Lev Serebryakov l...@freebsd.org wrote: Hello, Freebsd-ports. How could I run `portmaster' without ANY questions and confirmations? Simple and obvious `portmaster --no-confirm -y list of ports' doesn't work. It asks: (1) About interactive ports. (2) About removing old distfiles (3) About errors from `tar' when create backup archive with old versions. -- Grab a sample postmasterrc -- the options are pretty well explained. Chris ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
UPDATING 20110730
20110730: AFFECTS: users of x11-toolkits/gtk20 AUTHOR: gn...@freebsd.org The gtk-update-icon-cache utility has been slipt out of the gtk20 port. A minor typo in the above line - slipt - split. Use the following instructions to update your system. # pkg_delete -f gtk-2.\* # portmaster x11-toolkits/gtk20 I would like to warn other users and at the same time ask for alternative instructions. I have a regular (consumer) HDD and not so huge amount of RAM. I also have many (maybe very many) ports depending on gtk20 and some other loosely related ports like glib and gobject-introspection. Execution of the above command already takes more than an hour which is spent inside portmaster. I have hundreds of lines like the following in portmaster output: === x11-toolkits/gtk20 is listed as a dependency === but there is no installed version === Try portmaster --check-depends === devel/gobject-introspection is listed as a dependency === but there is no installed version === Try portmaster --check-depends === devel/gobject-introspection is listed as a dependency === but there is no installed version === Try portmaster --check-depends This carpet of output starts with: === Updating dependency entry for gio-fam-backend-2.28.8 in each dependent port # portmaster -a -- Andriy Gapon ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
portmaster === No ORIGIN in /var/db/pkg/xearth-1.1_2/+CONTENTS
I maintain astro/xearth. What is the meaning of the above portmaster warning? Thanks -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423 ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
SOLVED: Re: portmaster === No ORIGIN in /var/db/pkg/xearth-1.1_2/+CONTENTS
On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 09:14:00PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I maintain astro/xearth. What is the meaning of the above portmaster warning? Deinstalled, reinstalled and the ORIGIN appeared. -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423 ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: portmaster unattended run?
On 07/30/2011 10:44, Lev Serebryakov wrote: Hello, Freebsd-ports. How could I run `portmaster' without ANY questions and confirmations? Simple and obvious `portmaster --no-confirm -y list of ports' doesn't work. It asks: (1) About interactive ports. Portmaster is always going to notify you if a port is marked interactive, this is a feature. Fortunately very few ports are. (2) About removing old distfiles There is an option in the man page for this. (3) About errors from `tar' when create backup archive with old versions. There are options for this too. You really need to read the man page. Doug -- Nothin' ever doesn't change, but nothin' changes much. -- OK Go Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. Yours for the right price. :) http://SupersetSolutions.com/ ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: SOLVED: Re: portmaster === No ORIGIN in /var/db/pkg/xearth-1.1_2/+CONTENTS
On 07/30/2011 13:20, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 09:14:00PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I maintain astro/xearth. What is the meaning of the above portmaster warning? Deinstalled, reinstalled and the ORIGIN appeared. Glad it worked out for you. This is the correct solution, FYI. Doug -- Nothin' ever doesn't change, but nothin' changes much. -- OK Go Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. Yours for the right price. :) http://SupersetSolutions.com/ ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
FreeBSD Port: cfs-1.4.1_5
Hi, to get cfs working on CURRENT the remote file name has to be changed. On 7-STABLE the one used now is correct: localhost:/ and does work but on 9-CURRENT this leads to a permission denied error from nfsd because the mount is tried on / - as the string above implies. Using: localhost:/usr/local/cfsd-bootstrap instead succeeds on CURRENT. Another small hint: It may be a good idea to ad a note to the +DISPLAY of the port saying that all users allowed to cattach their private cfs dirs have to have access rights on the cfs mount point. Regards, Marc -- Marc Santhoff m.santh...@web.de ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
