Fools Day Joke ?

1999-04-01 Thread Nickolay Dudorov
There is some strangenes in date on file ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/development/CTM/cvs-cur/cvs-cur.5198.gz -r--r--r- 1 603 207 49741 apr 1 1998 cvs-cur.5198.gz N.Dudorov To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-current in

Re: Games

1999-04-01 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Thu, 01 Apr 1999 00:48:50 EST, Rod Taylor wrote: Just out of curiosity, why are there games included in the FreeBSD source tree? Politics and hysterical raisins. If you don't want the gamey games, apply the diffs below to your source. Caio, Sheldon. Index: Makefile.inc1

Re: Games

1999-04-01 Thread Alexander Leidinger
On 1 Apr, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: Well, first of all, .profile, .cshrc and signature scripts are broken in the absense of fortune. If I remember correctly .cshrc contains [ -x /usr/games/fortune ] ... so this shouldn't be an issue. BTW.: My /usr/games contains nothing (3.1-Stable install,

Re: /var/db/pkg/.mkversion

1999-04-01 Thread Satoshi - the Wraith - Asami
* From: Jordan K. Hubbard j...@zippy.cdrom.com * * Committing /var/db/pkg to mtree was fine, it probably should have been * there to begin with. Sticking things into it outside of pkg_add, * however, is evil. pkg_add owns this directory and every time we've * tried to go behind its back,

Re: Games

1999-04-01 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Alexander Leidinger wrote: On 1 Apr, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: Well, first of all, .profile, .cshrc and signature scripts are broken in the absense of fortune. If I remember correctly .cshrc contains [ -x /usr/games/fortune ] ... so this shouldn't be an issue. Well, some people

Re: /var/db/pkg/.mkversion

1999-04-01 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
[ Yes, I'm sticking my nose in where it probably doesn't belong and should get chopped off for it. It's a hobby ;] On Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 02:36:14AM -0800, a little birdie told me that Satoshi - the Wraith - Asami remarked The same situation arises whether the version info is in /var/db/pkg

RE: Games

1999-04-01 Thread Ladavac Marino
-Original Message- From: Daniel C. Sobral [SMTP:d...@newsguy.com] Sent: Thursday, April 01, 1999 1:14 PM To: Alexander Leidinger Cc: curr...@freebsd.org; tr49...@rcc.on.ca Subject: Re: Games Alexander Leidinger wrote: On 1 Apr, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: Well,

Re: booting systems with lots of memory

1999-04-01 Thread Tony Finch
Mike Smith m...@smith.net.au wrote: Tony Finch d...@dotat.at wrote: [serial console problems] We suspect a BIOS that's being too damn clever for its own good. That sounds about right. If your BIOS on the Intel box is set for a serial console, you could try poking it again to make sure that it's

Re: /var/db/pkg/.mkversion

1999-04-01 Thread Satoshi - the Wraith - Asami
* From: Matthew D. Fuller fulle...@futuresouth.com * [ Yes, I'm sticking my nose in where it probably doesn't belong and * should get chopped off for it. It's a hobby ;] Don't worry, I enjoy chopping off noses. :) * On Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 02:36:14AM -0800, a little birdie told me * that

Re: /var/db/pkg/.mkversion

1999-04-01 Thread Richard Wackerbarth
I have to agree that the problem is real. However, let me point out that a one identifier solution is very short sided. There are two distinct environments to be considered. The HOST environment and the TARGET environment. For convience, we should also consider a TOOLSET environment which is a

Re: /var/db/pkg/.mkversion

1999-04-01 Thread Chuck Robey
On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, Richard Wackerbarth wrote: I have to agree that the problem is real. However, let me point out that a one identifier solution is very short sided. There are two distinct environments to be considered. The HOST environment and the TARGET environment. For convience, we

make world fail with ctm src-cur.3809

1999-04-01 Thread Chan Yiu Wah
Hello, I tried to update my system with ctm upto src-cur.3809 and found the following error. Can anyone help ? thanks. Clarence === Error === In file included from /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/groff/libgroff/../../../../contrib/groff/libgroff/new.cc:24:

Re: /var/db/pkg/.mkversion

1999-04-01 Thread Satoshi - the Wraith - Asami
* From: Richard Wackerbarth r...@dataplex.net * I have to agree that the problem is real. * However, let me point out that a one identifier solution is * very short sided. sighted : * There are two distinct environments to be considered. * The HOST environment and the TARGET

Re: AIC

1999-04-01 Thread Steven Plite
On Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 11:55:23AM +0900, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: Brian Beattie wrote: writing it would be a pain) because the only pccard scsi cards that are out there are aic-6[23]60 based. Not having a pcmcia slot or card, I am not sure about support for this. Once aic6[23]60

latest bsd.port.mk and FETCH_CMD

1999-04-01 Thread Mikhail Teterin
With the latest changes to the bsd.port.mk, my local setting (in /etc/make.conf) of: FETCH_CMD=/usr/local/bin/runsocks /usr/bin/fetch -p is ignored. It uses the default /usr/bin/fetch, which does nto work for me... My setup worked fine back on Sunday, when I built the last port...

Re: /var/db/pkg/.mkversion

1999-04-01 Thread Richard Wackerbarth
On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, Chuck Robey wrote: On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, Richard Wackerbarth wrote: The natural tag for the TARGET would be in /usr/src/include. However, I can see some problems with this for the ports tree. Richard, don't forget that having /usr/src isn't required to build ports.

Re: latest bsd.port.mk and FETCH_CMD

1999-04-01 Thread Satoshi - the Wraith - Asami
* From: Mikhail Teterin m...@kot.ne.mediaone.net * With the latest changes to the bsd.port.mk, my local setting (in * /etc/make.conf) of: * FETCH_CMD=/usr/local/bin/runsocks /usr/bin/fetch -p * is ignored. It uses the default /usr/bin/fetch, which does nto work * for me... That's

Re: /var/db/pkg/.mkversion

1999-04-01 Thread Jon Hamilton
In message 19990401052839.d11...@futuresouth.com, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: } [ Yes, I'm sticking my nose in where it probably doesn't belong and } should get chopped off for it. It's a hobby ;] } } On Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 02:36:14AM -0800, a little birdie told me } that Satoshi - the Wraith -

Re: /var/db/pkg/.mkversion

1999-04-01 Thread Richard Wackerbarth
On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, Satoshi - the Wraith - Asami wrote: * From: Richard Wackerbarth r...@dataplex.net * very short sided. sighted : Yes, a slight transfer error between my brain and 'sendmail'. * There are two distinct environments to be considered. * The HOST

Re: Games

1999-04-01 Thread Jason J. Horton
On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, Rod Taylor wrote: Just out of curiosity, why are there games included in the FreeBSD source tree? For a group of people that was so worried about including dhcp because it's extra code, don't you think it's time to make those games into ports only? I say this under

Re: Games

1999-04-01 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Thu, 01 Apr 1999 10:43:51 EST, Jason J. Horton wrote: also, don't you have the option to not have the games? The problem with NOGAMES is that it strips things that some people consider useful. The diffs I posted earlier today (same subject line) rip out the games and leave behind the

Re: AIC

1999-04-01 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Steven Plite wrote: But there are *no* alternatives for notebooks, except parallel port SCSI. This isn't true. The 3.0 version of Newtek's Bus Toaster uses a Symbios 53C500 chip. I think Newtek still makes them... I meant that there are no alternatives available in 3.x. Granted, we

Re: Games

1999-04-01 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Sheldon Hearn wrote: On Thu, 01 Apr 1999 10:43:51 EST, Jason J. Horton wrote: also, don't you have the option to not have the games? The problem with NOGAMES is that it strips things that some people consider useful. The diffs I posted earlier today (same subject line) rip out the

Re: /var/db/pkg/.mkversion

1999-04-01 Thread Chuck Robey
On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, Richard Wackerbarth wrote: Richard, don't forget that having /usr/src isn't required to build ports. I don't think that I did forget. I explicitly reference that situation. The real solution (re the TARGET) has to depend on something that the USER sets for a

Re: Games

1999-04-01 Thread John Baldwin
On 01-Apr-99 Sheldon Hearn wrote: On Thu, 01 Apr 1999 10:43:51 EST, Jason J. Horton wrote: also, don't you have the option to not have the games? The problem with NOGAMES is that it strips things that some people consider useful. The diffs I posted earlier today (same subject line)

Re: /var/db/pkg/.mkversion

1999-04-01 Thread Charlie ROOT
On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, Chuck Robey wrote: On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, Richard Wackerbarth wrote: Your statement Nobody said cross compilation is easy :-) By this smiley, I mean to infer that it is far from easy. you're the ONLY one to demand it. OK, maybe even demand is wrong If you were talking

Adaptec 3950U2B Ver 2.11.0

1999-04-01 Thread Andrew N. Edmond (Nero)
Our hardware vendor, in an effort to save us PCI slot space, fitted us with a new 3950U2B instead of the old 3940 (no longer in production!) cards we were used to. All documents on FreeBSD.org say that FreeBSD 3.1 supports this card. However, /stand/sysinstall refuses to see it when I try to

Dates off by 1 year (was: Fools Day Joke ?)

1999-04-01 Thread John Polstra
In article abypp0t...@itfs.nsk.su, Nickolay Dudorov n...@itfs.nsk.su wrote: There is some strangenes in date on file ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/development/CTM/cvs-cur/cvs-cur.5198.gz -r--r--r- 1 603 207 49741 apr 1 1998 cvs-cur.5198.gz I changed the subject

Re: /var/db/pkg/.mkversion

1999-04-01 Thread Bill Fumerola
On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: I think this entire thing is a massive botch and needs to be removed as a bad idea ASAP. I think that's jumping to conclusions a little too quickly. Jordan, we are eliminating a LOT more future PRs and FAQs by using this method. A few permission

Re: Dates off by 1 year (was: Fools Day Joke ?)

1999-04-01 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Apr 01), John Polstra said: In article abypp0t...@itfs.nsk.su, Nickolay Dudorov n...@itfs.nsk.su wrote: There is some strangenes in date on file ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/development/CTM/cvs-cur/cvs-cur.5198.gz -r--r--r- 1 603 207 49741

Re: Dates off by 1 year (was: Fools Day Joke ?)

1999-04-01 Thread John Polstra
Dan Nelson wrote: I've seen this too, on other FTP servers. I doubt it's an NFS problem, since there is no reason for NFS to add/subtract exactly one year from the date. ... So I'd say it's a bug in NcFTP's date parser. Bingo! It looks like you're right. I noticed that the file's time was

Re: Games

1999-04-01 Thread Kevin Day
On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, Rod Taylor wrote: Just out of curiosity, why are there games included in the FreeBSD source tree? For a group of people that was so worried about including dhcp because it's extra code, don't you think it's time to make those games into ports only? I say this

Re: Adaptec 3950U2B Ver 2.11.0

1999-04-01 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
Andrew N. Edmond (Nero) wrote... Our hardware vendor, in an effort to save us PCI slot space, fitted us with a new 3950U2B instead of the old 3940 (no longer in production!) cards we were used to. All documents on FreeBSD.org say that FreeBSD 3.1 supports this card. However,

Re: Games

1999-04-01 Thread Matthew Dillon
:It's not just a matter of turning them off though. A few of the games in the :distro are trademark infringements. While the product I'm developing that :uses FreeBSD doesn't have the games installed, it brought up the comment :from our lawyers What else are they infringing on that we *are* using?

Re: Games

1999-04-01 Thread Kevin Day
:It's not just a matter of turning them off though. A few of the games in the :distro are trademark infringements. While the product I'm developing that :uses FreeBSD doesn't have the games installed, it brought up the comment :from our lawyers What else are they infringing on that we *are*

WORM CAM CD

1999-04-01 Thread Smelly Pooh
Has the worm driver been taken out of current? If so does the CAM CD driver handle ATAPI CD-Rs or what is the new way of doing it? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message

Re: Handbook DocBook cutover complete

1999-04-01 Thread Joseph T. Lee
On Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 06:34:27AM -0500, Brian Feldman wrote: Doc is a nice format, but it's not hypertext. Check out ports/palm/pilot_makedoc TealDoc's version supports graphics and links. -- Joseph nugundam =best=com==/==\=IIGS=/==\=Playstation=/==\=Civic HX CVT=/==\ #Anime Expo

Re: Handbook DocBook cutover complete

1999-04-01 Thread Brian Feldman
On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, Joseph T. Lee wrote: On Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 06:34:27AM -0500, Brian Feldman wrote: Doc is a nice format, but it's not hypertext. Check out ports/palm/pilot_makedoc TealDoc's version supports graphics and links. Is it a published format, though? I know TealDoc is $$$,

Re: WORM CAM CD

1999-04-01 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
Smelly Pooh wrote... Has the worm driver been taken out of current? Yes. You have to use cdrecord now for SCSI CD burners. If so does the CAM CD driver handle ATAPI CD-Rs or what is the new way of doing it? No, you need to use the IDE/ATAPI CDROM driver. wormcontrol will talk to that

Re: /var/db/pkg/.mkversion

1999-04-01 Thread William R. Somsky
On Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 02:22:57PM -0500, Bill Fumerola wrote: On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: I think this entire thing is a massive botch and needs to be removed as a bad idea ASAP. I think that's jumping to conclusions a little too quickly. Jordan, we are eliminating

netscape: no recognized font

1999-04-01 Thread Randy Bush
% netscape no recognized font charsets! 3.1-stable as of today navigator 4.5 freshly installed randy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message