Re: cups, and hplip too, fail to recognize printer when I try to print
The problem has nothing to do with proprietary drivers, etcetera but rather the extremely fractured system of printing on non MS Windows based systems. I have had extensive conversations with representatives from Brother and while they do include PPD's and other assorted files for some of their printers, they claim it is just not financially feasible to do so for all their products, ie, scanners, copiers, etcetera due to the multiple platforms that they would be required to support. They need only support one when working with MS Windows, If the *nix community would come together and devise one consistent printing system, they would be inclined to support it. They informed me that due to the way FreeBSD likes to due things differently than anyone else, they would never in all likely hood support it directly. This is not a problem with the manufacturers, it is a fundamental flaw in the way *nix handles printers, copiers, FAX machines, scanners, etcetera. You might want to check out this URL: http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/openprinting Specifically this portion for starters: PDF is the standard print job format from CUPS 1.6.x on All important desktop applications (GTK/GNOME, Qt/KDE, LibreOffice/OpenOffice.org, Firefox, Thunderbird, ...) send print jobs in PDF and not in PostScript any more by default. In addition, a complete CUPS filter chain to process print jobs in PDF is available and used. Carmel I tried running the MS-Windows executable installer in Wine under NetBSD-current i386, but it did nothing at all. Subsequently I tried mousing through Wine Explorer to get an idea of what it was like. It seemed to get bogged down after a short time, long file names were truncated, and it subsequently went into a reboot (crash), file system not cleanly dismounted. So it looks like this wine is unstable; I could try in FreeBSD-current i386 and amd64 after I get that built. But I really think I need to build/install a Linux system. It would be helpful if a laser printer/all-in-one would support a standard print file format/interface, like PDF, instead of having their own proprietary PCL. Then such a printer might work in Linux and BSD even without a specific driver. Or am I wrong? Then printing would work even without a specific driver, even from Haiku. I looked at the web link, had to remove at the beginning and at the end to make it work. Yes, Unix/quasi-Unix is an anarchy regarding printing interface. HP provided hplip, which can be seen either as an indication that they are helpful to Linux, or as a red flag that their printer interfaces are proprietary and that only their software will work. So now I view hplip as a red flag and intend not to buy anything further from HP, printer or otherwise. Tom ___ 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: Would a committer please commit my update to net-p2p/namecoin?
Thanks for the assistance! Bitcoin core currently also is stuck on db 4.8, and not only on FreeBSD. I'll continue researching it further as I too was aware db48 is long in the tooth and has its days numbered. As soon as I can I'll make db ver 4, 5 and 6 work via options but for now can I just stick to db48 if that's alright? This update to 0.3.80 in ports is long overdue. On Jun 4, 2015, at 4:32 PM, Kurt Jaeger li...@opsec.eu wrote: Hi! Any idea whether 6 would be OK ? A test build with db6 on 10.1pX amd64 builds namecoin. I have not tested it. A testbuild with db6 using poudriere failed 8-( See https://people.freebsd.org/~pi/logs/ net-p2p__namecoin-10x-1433419365.txt net-p2p__namecoin-84i-1433419365.txt net-p2p__namecoin-93a-1433419365.txt -- p...@opsec.eu+49 171 3101372 5 years to go ! ___ 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: Would a committer please commit my update to net-p2p/namecoin?
Hi! Any idea whether 6 would be OK ? A test build with db6 on 10.1pX amd64 builds namecoin. I have not tested it. A testbuild with db6 using poudriere failed 8-( See https://people.freebsd.org/~pi/logs/ net-p2p__namecoin-10x-1433419365.txt net-p2p__namecoin-84i-1433419365.txt net-p2p__namecoin-93a-1433419365.txt -- p...@opsec.eu+49 171 3101372 5 years to go ! ___ 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: Would a committer please commit my update to net-p2p/namecoin?
Hi! Any idea whether 6 would be OK ? A test build with db6 on 10.1pX amd64 builds namecoin. I have not tested it. A testbuild with db6 using poudriere failed 8-( So it needs more care. -- p...@opsec.eu+49 171 3101372 5 years to go ! ___ 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: Would a committer please have a look at my update to databases/sql-developer?
Hi! https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=200054 has patch to update of SQL Developer to version 4.1. Ticket has been created 1 month ago, and today I've been asked about plans to update port to latest version. Ticket contains portlint poudriere test, patch is simple. Done. -- p...@opsec.eu+49 171 3101372 5 years to go ! ___ 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 net-p2p/digitalcoin port
Hello, I was looking to use the Digitalcoin and see I has not been updated in a while. I tried contacting the current maintainer directly with no luck. Now I am attempting via the ports mailing list. The current port is not usuable since the blockchain had a hard fork. I had to make an updated version of the port and it can bee seen at: https://github.com/tuaris/FreeBSD-Coin-Ports/tree/master/ports/digitalcoin I've tested it on FreeBSD 10 and 9.3 http://pkg.morante.net/poudriere/data/93amd64-default-wallets/latest-per-pkg/digitalcoin-3.0.1.0.log Thank You smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Portupgrade a jail
Hello. Is it possible to run portupgrade from the base system, while addressing a jail? I see some threads about this, but they all go back to the pre-pkgng era. To me it look like pkg -r /usr/jail/xxx works, but I don't see any way to make portupgrade pass this option along. Then again, I think portupgrade, having it's onw databases, needs more than that... In any case I'd like to avoid the need to install N+1 copies of portupgrade and its dependencies on a system with N jails. Is there any way to achieve this? bye Thanks av. ___ 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
Would a committer please commit my update to net-p2p/namecoin?
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=193534 https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=193534 has a txz attachment of my latest version (now at 0.3.80) which contains directories namecoin and namecoin-daemon (please add namecoin-daemon port while updating namecoin port.) Be sure the files which no longer exist in the port get deleted from the ports tree (patches which were upstreamed). Thank you ___ 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: Would a committer please commit my update to net-p2p/namecoin?
Hi! https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=193534 I had a look at it. Right now it depends on WANT_BDB_VER= 48 which This port is deprecated; you may wish to reconsider installing it: Please migrate to db5 or db6. It is scheduled to be removed on or after 2015-05-31. Any idea whether 6 would be OK ? -- p...@opsec.eu+49 171 3101372 5 years to go ! ___ 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: Would a committer please commit my update to net-p2p/namecoin?
Hi! Any idea whether 6 would be OK ? A test build with db6 on 10.1pX amd64 builds namecoin. I have not tested it. Can you test if it works with db6 ? -- p...@opsec.eu+49 171 3101372 5 years to go ! ___ 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
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Hello, I've been working on freevrrpd and i succeded to make it running. But now i don't know how to make master and backup scripts. I couldn't find any sample anywhere. Can you help me? Sent from my Sony Xperia™ smartphone ___ 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
Would a committer please have a look at my update to databases/sql-developer?
Hi, https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=200054 has patch to update of SQL Developer to version 4.1. Ticket has been created 1 month ago, and today I've been asked about plans to update port to latest version. Ticket contains portlint poudriere test, patch is simple. Thank you! ___ 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: Would a committer please have a look at my update to databases/sql-developer?
Thank you, Kurt!!! On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 6:55 PM, Kurt Jaeger li...@opsec.eu wrote: Hi! https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=200054 has patch to update of SQL Developer to version 4.1. Ticket has been created 1 month ago, and today I've been asked about plans to update port to latest version. Ticket contains portlint poudriere test, patch is simple. Done. -- p...@opsec.eu+49 171 3101372 5 years to go ! ___ 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
