Re: Change install-order? (upgrade from static to dynamic root)

2003-11-30 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 9:39 PM -0500 11/26/03, Garance A Drosihn wrote: I just installed 5.1-release on a sparc64, and then cvsup'ed to the latest snapshot of -current. Since that update is such a large jump in time, I was going from a system which had no /rescue or /libexec to one which builds every

Update to fix 'installworld' for 5.2

2003-12-01 Thread Garance A Drosihn
Here is an update I would like to install before 5.2-release. This fixes the problems that people will run into during 'make installworld' when doing a source-upgrade from 5.1-release or 5.1-security to (what will be) 5.2-release. To test this, I first upgraded a system to 5.1-RELEASE-p11. I then c

Re: net.inet.tcp.always_keepalive on as default ?

1999-06-04 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 11:24 AM -0700 6/4/99, David Greenman wrote: > someone else wrote: >> >> I still think the right thing is: >> default to keepalives. >> set the timeout to a week. > > I don't support increasing the default timeout. That would cause > problems for a lot of server systems that rely on

Re: Fix for rtc, vmware modules and post-500104 -current

2003-03-09 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 7:37 PM +0100 3/5/03, Marcin CIEƂLAK wrote: See the patches enclosed to emulators/rtc and emulators/vmware2 ports. Tested only for -current with: #define __FreeBSD_version 500104 This does get it so the vmware module will load correctly at system startup, and I think the

Re: [solved] buildworld error

2003-06-10 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 9:42 PM +0200 6/10/03, Gordon Bergling wrote: Hi all, Since I disable BDECFLAGS in /etc/make.conf this problem goes away. I don't know if this effects the build process in any other way. I had enable them around 4.5-RELEASE or so. ;) I'm not sure what you mean by that. Did you remove a line wh

Re: BDECFLAGS being added to CFLAGS and CWARNFLAGS ( was Re:[solved] buildworld error)

2003-06-11 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 2:29 PM -0500 6/11/03, Scot W. Hetzel wrote: From: "Munehiro Matsuda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I was having the same compile error, until I commeted out > the BDECFLAGS definition from /etc/make.conf. > > Looking into the problematic Makefiles, I've found that > following Makefiles do referenc

Re: Overdone rescue cleaning as part of buildworld?

2003-07-14 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 9:09 AM -0700 7/14/03, Gordon Tetlow wrote: On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 12:40:42AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > Gordon, 'make world' times have climbed up to over 1 hour > on a machine that used to do it in 25 minutes. Can you > please commit to understanding how /resuce is build and optimizing

Re: Annoucning DragonFly BSD!

2003-07-16 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 1:58 PM -0700 7/16/03, Matthew Dillon wrote: : :Is it real or another troll? : :-Maxim I stupidly misspelled 'announcing' in the subject line, Well, at least you didn't misspell your name... :-) but it's very real. Check the site out: http://www.dragonflybsd.org/ The site looks inte

Re: perl wrapper and PATH

2002-06-09 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 12:48 PM +0200 6/9/02, Anton Berezin wrote: >On Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 02:14:09PM -0400, Trish Lynch wrote: > > > Anton, if you don;t get around to it this weekend, mind > > if I take a stab at it? > >No, I don't mind at all. If only we can agree who does what. :-( RPI has been running with

Re: libufs, a library for dealing with UFS from userland.

2002-06-29 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 5:37 AM -0700 6/29/02, Juli Mallett wrote: >I get identical output from dumpfs and libufs-dumpfs currently >and I can toggle softdep flags fine with tunefs. I'd like to >commit this by the coming Tuesday as I will be out of town >from Tuesday morning and will not have any way to further >work

Re: What's the right way to build XFree86-4 now?

2002-06-30 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 4:57 PM +0200 6/26/02, Sheldon Hearn wrote: >Here's what I did to get XFree86-4 to build with the base system's >toolchain in -CURRENT: > >a) ports/devel/imake-4: > >Replace files/patch-d and files/patch-xthreads with the attached >patch-config::cf::FreeBSD.cf. > >Add the attached p

Re: -current results (was something funny with soft updates?)

2002-07-02 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 11:01 PM -0700 7/2/02, Matthew Dillon wrote: > I get just about the same performance for GCC2 as I > do for GCC3 in the tests I've run so far. It makes > me wonder what the hell GCC3 is burning all that > cpu *on*. One of the guys here at RPI (dec, actually) claims he got buil

Re: What's the right way to build XFree86-4 now?

2002-07-02 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 4:57 PM +0200 6/26/02, Sheldon Hearn wrote: >Here's what I did to get XFree86-4 to build with the base system's >toolchain in -CURRENT: I thought I'd try this out. Before starting, I did a cvsup of all my ports tree. >a) ports/devel/imake-4: > >Replace files/patch-d and files/patch-xthre

Re: What's the right way to build XFree86-4 now?

2002-07-03 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 3:18 AM -0400 7/3/02, Garance A Drosihn wrote: >At 4:57 PM +0200 6/26/02, Sheldon Hearn wrote: >>c) ports/x11-servers/XFree86-4-Server: >> >>Add the attached patch-gcc31, taken from Motoyuki Konno's post to >><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with the fo

Re: What's the right way to build XFree86-4 now?

2002-07-03 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 4:00 AM -0400 7/3/02, Garance A Drosihn wrote: >I started up XDM, and that also worked. Not only that, but my >machine didn't instantly reboot when XDM started, which had been >happening to me for the last few days... Bah humbug. I went to log into XDM, and the machine sat th

Re: gcc 3.1 can't compile XFree86-4-Server

2002-07-03 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 5:26 PM +0300 7/3/02, Maxim Sobolev wrote: >Hi, > >I am trying to upgrade installed XFree86-4-Server package, >but found that a new gcc can't compile it. Following is >relevant error output: [...skipped...] >Please investigate & fix. Some information is in the email-thread under the subje

Re: gcc 3.1 can't compile XFree86-4-Server

2002-07-03 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 9:27 AM -0700 7/3/02, David O'Brien wrote: >On Wed, Jul 03, 2002, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > Sheldon has a few informative messages which include > > some patches to test. (although I don't think the patches >> are a complete fix for the problems we

Re: additional queue macro

2002-07-03 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 10:38 AM -0700 7/3/02, Terry Lambert wrote: >Julian Elischer wrote: >> TAILQ_FOREACH_REMOVABLE or TAILQ_FOREACH_SAFE >> (I prefer the first) are my suggestions for the name.) > >TAILQ_FOREACH_MODIFY ? I sense great material for a bikeshed... :-) For mine, how about: TAILQ_FOREACH_VOLATI

Re: gcc 3.1 can't compile XFree86-4-Server

2002-07-03 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 8:07 PM +0200 7/3/02, Sheldon Hearn wrote: >Yes, remember that you're building the MATROX stuff, which I'm not. Yes, I should have mentioned that. Is Maxim compiling the matrox drivers? Perhaps I should retry without those. >Also, remember that my patches were for the base system's toolchai

Re: Removing perl in make world

2002-07-05 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 11:16 AM +0100 7/5/02, Paul Richards wrote: >On Fri, 2002-07-05 at 10:52, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > On (2002/07/05 10:45), Paul Richards wrote: > > > I'd like to resurrect it's original meaning and add code > > > to clean out old versions of Perl. > > > > This would not fit in with the rest

Re: Removing perl in make world

2002-07-05 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 3:33 PM -0700 7/5/02, Terry Lambert wrote: > >So, to summarize: > Let me summarize my own position. There are a number of files which installworld does install. After an installworld is done, there may be a number of files on a person's hard disk which were not put there by the most recent i

Re: Removing perl in make world

2002-07-05 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 3:05 AM +0100 7/6/02, Paul Richards wrote: >Let's start with a premise: No-one running current is using >it for anything other than developing FreeBSD. This is assumption is too limiting. People running -current are doing it to test the latest builds. What they *do* to test it is their busine

Re: Removing perl in make world

2002-07-06 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 12:42 PM +0100 7/6/02, Paul Richards wrote: >On Sat, 2002-07-06 at 03:46, Garance A Drosihn wrote: >> At 3:05 AM +0100 7/6/02, Paul Richards wrote: >> >Let's start with a premise: No-one running current is using >> >it for anything other than developing FreeB

Re: Still no XFree86-4?

2002-07-16 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 12:04 PM +0200 7/16/02, John Angelmo wrote: >Hello > >I erased my /usr/ports just to be sure that all the different >patches out, then cvsuped to get the latest version, to my >disappointment XFree86-4 Still dosn't build under Current, I >still got the same perl error in fonts, the perl port is

Re: Still no XFree86-4?

2002-07-16 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 7:27 PM -0600 7/16/02, Eric Anholt wrote: >It notably doesn't include md5summing of Wraphelp.c. If I can >find what's the 'best' Wraphelp.c (and most legal? What's the >status of wraphelp importing/exporting?), I'll switch it. Is >there any circumstance when someone wouldn't have access to >

Re: 5.0-DP2 coming up..

2002-07-17 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 11:42 PM +0200 7/17/02, John Angelmo wrote: >John Baldwin wrote: >>Hey all (ab)users of -current. Please try to work on getting -current >>as stabilized as possible in the next few days and hold off on any >>large changes until after re@ creates the Perforce branch for DP2 on >>Friday. > >Well

Problem with agpgart on current, XFree86-4, Matrox G400 video

2002-07-17 Thread Garance A Drosihn
I just thought I'd mention a little problem I ran into, because I had not seen anyone else mention it. It might be specific to my PC hardware, and actually it was pretty simple to solve once I took the time to look into it. I don't know that anything needs to be done about any of this, but perha

Re: Problem with agpgart on current, XFree86-4, Matrox G400 video

2002-07-18 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 7:53 PM -0600 7/17/02, Eric Anholt wrote: >On Wed, 2002-07-17 at 18:40, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > > XDM generally did still seem to come up okay, although occasionally > > the system would panic right at that initial XDM startup. While > > I tried a few thing

RE: Re: Be careful mounting -stable partitions on -current

2002-07-29 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 7:18 PM + 7/29/02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I cvsup'd on Friday of last week, after I restored /usr. Did >the fix come later than that? I'm kind of afraid to try it >again :) Thanks, Rob. The fix in question was to -stable, not -current (I am not sure if that was mentioned earlier).

Re: where's perl???

2002-07-26 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 12:01 PM +0200 7/26/02, Michael Nottebrock wrote: >Erik Greenwald wrote: >>speaking of, is there any good way to automatically eliminate old >>unnecessary parts of the base? > >>should there be one? :) > >An increasing number of people seem to believe that and there has >been some discussion la

Re: system crashes; reboots when printing

2002-07-26 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 6:43 PM -0700 7/26/02, karl agee wrote: >system: 5.0-current. > >trying to print to a post script laser printer which works fine >in the past. setup using apsfilter. > >When I attempt to print any file from any program the desktop >locks up then the system reboots. why? Try copying a postsc

Re: emulators/rtc and vmware2

2002-08-15 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 1:36 PM -0400 8/15/02, Robert Watson wrote: >Someone needs to restructure the driver to match some our other >pseudo-device drivers where the device is properly created as >part of module initialization. If fixed this and other things >locally at one point on my notebook, but eventually got >s

Re: GCC 3.2.1-pre and /usr/src/UPDATING

2002-09-02 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 4:59 PM -0400 9/2/02, Mikhail Teterin wrote: >On Sunday 01 September 2002 05:58 pm, Alexander Kabaev wrote: >= GCC 3.2.1-pre is now in the tree. Please let me know if you >= see any problems recompiling your world/kernel. >= >= Remember to recompile your C++ ports. GCC 3.2 is not binary >= comp

Re: gcore/elfcore.c broken?

2002-09-04 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 12:58 AM -0700 9/5/02, walt wrote: >cc -O -pipe -mcpu=pentiumpro-c /usr/src/usr.bin/gcore/elfcore.c >/usr/src/usr.bin/gcore/elfcore.c: In function `elf_coredump': >/usr/src/usr.bin/gcore/elfcore.c:128: syntax error before "nleft" >/usr/src/usr.bin/gcore/elfcore.c:131: `nleft' undeclared (fi

Re: Who broke sort(1) ?

2002-09-24 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 6:02 PM -0400 9/24/02, Garrett Wollman wrote: >< said: > > > When's the first time the FreeBSD sort(1) man page mentioned that > > this syntax was deprecated? Can we at least start from there? > >It does not appear to have ever been properly documented. > >I don't object to maintaining backw

Re: ttys patch - any objections?

2002-09-26 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 10:22 AM +0100 9/26/02, Mark Murray wrote: >Hi > >The attached patch gets done by me any time I set up a FreeBSD >box (I like lots of VTYs and X on ALT-F12). > >Any objections to my committing this? I think the we will have more users who are hurt (or at least annoyed) by moving X, then we hav

Re: expat2 in the base system?

2002-10-02 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 2:28 PM +0200 10/2/02, Sheldon Hearn wrote: >We're at a lucky moment in time, where there's only one version of >expat in the ports tree. But think about what happens when there >are two mainstream versions at large again. > >Please let's learn from past mistakes and give this library a >compl

Re: expat2 in the base system?

2002-10-03 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 9:37 AM -0400 10/3/02, Matthew Emmerton wrote: > > Garance A Drosihnwrites: >> >> >I think it would be very prudent that any base-system expat have > > >it's own name, even if it's just "expat2fb". > > >> It sounds to me like this sums it up nicely. The thing about it >> I like is that i

Re: Vote: lib/libexpat -> lib/libbsdxml

2002-10-04 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 5:56 PM +0300 10/4/02, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: >Hi there! > >I'd like to rename src/lib/libexpat to src/lib/libbsdxml. >The reason I think it should be done is the output of the >following command (libpam not being an exception here): > >cd src/lib; for dir in lib*; do [ "$dir" != "lib`cd $dir; m

Re: [ GEOM tests ] vinum drives lost

2002-10-04 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 9:02 PM +0200 10/4/02, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >There are numerous architectural issues which have never been >fixed in vinum, and one or more of these bits now. > >Whoever loves vinum will have to chase it/them down and fix it. > >If I receive patches or requests for changes to GEOM as result

Re: make linux_base error during rpm

2002-10-05 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 9:37 AM +0800 10/6/02, suken woo wrote: >hi,all: >getting the following error messages during rpm. thanks any info. >===> Building for rpm-3.0.6_6 >gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/archivers/rpm/work/rpm-3.0.6' >gmake: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2 >*** Error code 2 > >Stop in /usr/po

Re: Removing old binaries

2002-10-07 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 9:16 AM +0930 10/8/02, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >On Monday, 7 October 2002, M. Warner Losh wrote: > > I think that we need a mtree.obsolete that goes through and deletes >> these sorts of things as part of installworld/upgrade scripts. > >I think we can greatly simplify things with one fir

Re: Removing old binaries

2002-10-07 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 10:55 AM +0930 10/8/02, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >On Monday, 7 October 2002 at 21:18:10 -0400, Daniel Eischen wrote: > > On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > >> On Monday, 7 October 2002 at 20:07:37 -0400, Daniel Eischen wrote: > >>> I don't think doing this by default is a g

Re: Removing old binaries

2002-10-07 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 11:29 AM +0930 10/8/02, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >On Monday, 7 October 2002 at 21:57:28 -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > How about for each directory, if there are old files found in the >> directory then create a ".OLDINSTALL" sub-directory, and mov

Re: Removing old binaries (was: Do we still need portmap(8)?)

2002-10-07 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 11:31 AM +0930 10/8/02, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > > "install -C" doesn't change the timestamp, so you'll have tons of >> files that are older than "some file in the build tree". > >What does the last access timestamp look like after install -C? What does the last-access timestamp look lik

Re: Removing old binaries

2002-10-07 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 11:45 AM +0930 10/8/02, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >On Monday, 7 October 2002, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > I bought the PC, freebsd did not. Maybe it is convenient for me to >> have a file there. Maybe I did it by mistake. Maybe it's a core >> fi

Re: Do we still need portmap(8)?

2002-10-09 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 3:09 PM -0600 10/9/02, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: > Danny> And a list of files to delete would have saved many emails > Danny> about the GCC being broken when the old headers just needed > Danny> to be deleted. > >We could add 'rm -rf /usr/include/*' at a suitable point inside >the ins

Re: Do we still need portmap(8)?

2002-10-09 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 2:00 PM -0700 10/9/02, Terry Lambert wrote: >"Danny J. Zerkel" wrote: > > And a list of files to delete would have saved many emails > > about the GCC being broken when the old headers just needed > > to be deleted. > >No, it wouldn't. > >The same people who failed to read the mailing list,

Re: questions about the state of current

2002-10-29 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 11:40 AM -0700 10/29/02, Raymond Kohler wrote: I'm now a stable user, and I'm considering moving to current to get a jump on upgrading and help with the testing effort. Note that -current is a much wilder place than -stable. I have some questions about its performance: 1) How is the speed

Re: [PATCH] note the __sF change in src/UPDATING

2002-11-08 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 6:13 PM -0500 11/8/02, Daniel Eischen wrote: On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, M. Warner Losh wrote: In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Daniel Eischen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : All the ports are going to be rebuilt for the release anyways, : so this doesn't affect fresh installs, correct?

Re: perl5.6.1 wrapper

2002-11-12 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 11:13 PM + 11/8/02, Mark Murray wrote: > > I mean *all* the cruft -- old modules and config files, > > deprecated binaries and man pages, even old shlibs if it's safe. > > I agree with you, and I was giving an example that a lesser > form of this is already required during the upgrade.

Re: perl5.6.1 wrapper

2002-11-13 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 10:17 PM -0800 11/12/02, Doug Barton wrote: David O'Brien wrote: On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 08:58:44AM +, Mark Murray wrote: > IMVHO, the perl wrapper should be removed altogether, and the > perl port's "use.port" symlink-creating feature should be used > instead. > Do we have consens

Re: perl5.6.1 wrapper

2002-11-14 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 2:01 AM -0800 11/14/02, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Thu, Nov 14, 2002, Andrew Kenneth Milton wrote: Why can't someone with a fresh stable do an ls -R / And someone with a fresh current do the same? Because that's only part of the story. What about people updating from other supported "source

Re: Lost disklabel

2002-11-20 Thread Garance A Drosihn
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 09:19:11AM -0600, Patrick Hartling wrote: I have a machine that is running -current from October 10, 2002. It had been running fine for about two weeks--up until I had to reboot it. When it came back up, one of my disks apparently lost its disklabel. > Is there any

"A"utodefaults in disklabel on 5.0dp2 install

2002-11-23 Thread Garance A Drosihn
This is something I noticed while installing 5.0-dp2. I'm not sure how much we'd want to change it. I'm installing dp2 on a 4-gig disk. I want to split that in two, with "dos" for the first 2 gig and freebsd in the last 2 gig. When I got to the disklabel step, I tried the "Auto Defaults" option

Re: "A"utodefaults in disklabel on 5.0dp2 install

2002-11-23 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 1:57 AM -0800 11/23/02, Terry Lambert wrote: Garance A Drosihn wrote: This is something I noticed while installing 5.0-dp2. I'm not sure > how much we'd want to change it. The default swap size calculation is done on the basis of a multiple of the physical memory size. Spec

fsck's, "current" vs "earlier releases"

2002-11-23 Thread Garance A Drosihn
I'm playing around with installing a number of freebsd releases on the same PC, and something came up which makes me a little uneasy. I understand why I am seeing what I'm seeing, I'm just uneasy about what it might mean for people who will pick up 5.0-release and start testing it on their own mach

Re: installworld and stale {include,lib} fun

2002-11-23 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 11:43 PM -0700 11/23/02, M. Warner Losh wrote: In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : The one case (so far) where this seemed to make a difference : was libposix1e. It was disconnected from the build by revision : 1.119 of src/lib/Makefile b

Re: More info on blocked procs with make -j3 buildworld

2002-11-25 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 5:50 PM -0800 11/25/02, Nate Lawson wrote: More info. Someone should bite one of these times. So far I've got no takers so if interested, please help. I've got a box that was operational but no more procs (can't log in). It looks like the nightly 'make -j3 buildworld' hung it. I left it in

Re: pw_user.c change for samba

2002-11-27 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 2:34 PM -0600 11/27/02, David W. Chapman Jr. wrote: > Why is this actually necessary for SAMBA? Is it necessary for all three of these to permit this, or is it sufficient to (for example) allow it in the group name? Samba needs a user account for the domain "machine account" the machin

Re: pw_user.c change for samba (& perl scripts!)

2002-11-27 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 1:24 PM +0900 11/28/02, NAKAJI Hiroyuki wrote: > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Terry Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: There are two "adduser" scripts. One is perl, and one was written to use "pw" and provide the same semantics, in a shell script, as part of the "perl purge" that happen

Re: pw_user.c change for samba

2002-11-27 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 7:06 PM -0800 11/27/02, Terry Lambert wrote: NAKAJI Hiroyuki wrote: > My /usr/sbin/adduser, updated on Nov/23/2002 21:58 JST, does not > call pw command. It adds account to /etc/master.passwd and > invokes 'pwd_mkdb'. > See 'sub new_users' function in /usr/sbin/adduser. There are two "a

Re: pw_user.c change for samba

2002-11-30 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 7:06 PM -0800 11/27/02, Terry Lambert wrote: NAKAJI Hiroyuki wrote: > My /usr/sbin/adduser, updated on Nov/23/2002 21:58 JST, does > not call pw command. It adds account to /etc/master.passwd and > invokes 'pwd_mkdb'. > See 'sub new_users' function in /usr/sbin/adduser. There are two "a

Re: The great perl script rewrite - progress report

2002-11-30 Thread Garance A Drosihn
[to follow-up on what I said in a different thread...] On my 5.0-dp2 system, if I ignore /usr/local and /usr/ports, it looks like the following files installed by -dp2 are perl scripts: /usr/bin/mmroff /usr/bin/afmtodit /usr/sbin/adduser /usr/sbin/rmuser /usr/share/examples/cvs/contri

Re: Trivial patch: fdisk doesn't recognize my partitions

2002-12-01 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 3:46 PM -0800 12/1/02, Terry Lambert wrote: [ ... Partition ID changes ... ] > > But as I said, this is rather marginal and I really don't > > feel it should go in unless this xor-0x10 convention is > > more widespread. > > partition magic does this too. isn't the correct failure mode >

Re: Trivial patch: fdisk doesn't recognize my partitions

2002-12-01 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 8:06 AM +0100 12/2/02, Riccardo Torrini wrote: WHY ARE WE NOT RESPECTING THE DECISION TO HIDE THE THINGS? A user installed the software doing the hiding on purpose. The software changed the ID hide it, on purpose. Windows ignores these partitions -- on purpose. I'm really sorry for crea

Re: ARLA 0.35.11 on FreeBSD 5.0-RC1

2002-12-16 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 4:15 PM +0100 12/15/02, Petr Holub wrote: Hi, I tried to compile arla 0.35.11 on FreeBSD 5.0-RC1. First I got following error: checking for memcpy in kernel... yes checking if vnode_if.h needs to be built... configure: error: unable to find any vnode_if script So I have linked -su-2.05b# ln

SMP kernel on 5.0-release ISO's?

2002-12-16 Thread Garance A Drosihn
For those of us with multi-processor systems, would there be an already-compiled SMP kernel available somewhere on the official ISO's? Do people think that would be a useful item to include? I was thinking of just having a /boot/kernel-smp directory, for people to load in if they want to try it.

Re: 5.0 performance (was: 80386 out of GENERIC)

2002-12-16 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 5:58 AM +0100 12/17/02, Cliff Sarginson wrote: Also didn't someone mention that GCC has got slower anyway ? gcc is slower at compiling things. This is very noticeable when you're doing a buildworld. The code which gcc 3.2.1 produces does not seem any slower than the code produced by gcc 2

Re: -CURRENT in pretty good shape, after all

2002-02-23 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 6:24 PM +0100 2/23/02, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: >Thumbs up and big cheers to all of you (well, us) guys working on >-CURRENT. It's pretty stable and has been for a while now - and >even on my poor old 350 MHz K6-2, it performs well enough to make >a kickass desktop & development platform. L

Re: -CURRENT in pretty good shape, after all

2002-02-24 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 1:00 AM -0800 2/24/02, Julian Elischer wrote: >On Sat, 23 Feb 2002, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > It is working fairly well for me too, on a dual-pentium machine. >> I can't get vmware2 working, but most of everything else that I >> do is working, and I'm

Re: Discussion of guidelines for additional version controlmechanisms (fwd)

2002-02-26 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 4:53 PM -0500 2/26/02, Robert Watson wrote: >The purpose of this message is to initiate a serious discussion >of what guidelines might be put in place to help facilitate the >use of additional version control mechanisms [...]. I've mixed >in some suggested things to think about as possible ans

Re: Discussion of guidelines for additional version controlmechanisms (fwd)

2002-02-26 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 6:55 PM -0800 2/26/02, Julian Elischer wrote: > > (1) The timeout begins when contention occurs, of the lock has been >> declared. This means that if you seriously intend to do some work, >> you can say "I'm going to do the work", but you don't risk losing the >> lock until som

Re: Discussion of guidelines for additional version control

2002-02-26 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 7:27 PM -0800 2/26/02, Julian Elischer wrote: >On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > >> That would be me... >> > > I meant "lock" in the sense of expecting no one to make any > > major changes in the same area of code. I seem to remember &

Re: NetBSD-style rc.d Project

2002-02-26 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 6:48 PM -0800 2/26/02, Kris Kennaway wrote: >On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 10:00:52AM -0500, Kevin Way wrote: > >> I, for one, lost interest in doing the work when I realized I was >> receiving, quite literally, 5 times more complaints than combined >> patches, constructive criticism or positive f

Re: controversial fix or some errors breaking LINT

2002-02-27 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 1:27 PM -0800 2/27/02, Julian Elischer wrote: >There are saveral places (e.g. if_ie.c) where data >is copied out of a buffer that is shared with the hardware. > >The pointer to this is correctly labelled as "volatile", though >at the time we will copy the data out we know it to be stable. Note

Re: buildworld problems, undefined reference to '__ntohl' and'__htonl'

2002-03-06 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 1:15 PM -0800 3/6/02, Matthew Dillon wrote: > This has been broken for several days now, maybe longer. It > would be nice if whoever broke it would fix it. Is this in a 'make buildworld' step? I just did one buildworld on i386, and it completed fine (src is cvsup'ed as of about noon)

Re: 5-CURRENT source upgrade path is broken in PAM

2002-03-07 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 5:43 PM +0200 3/7/02, Maxim Sobolev wrote: >"Michael D. Harnois" wrote: > > Could this have anything to do with the fact that, since I built > > world yesterday, I can't log in as root? > >Bah, just completed `make world' after doing `make includes' and >found that I can't login as *any* user

Re: Patch for critical_enter()/critical_exit() & interrupt assem

2002-03-07 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 7:04 PM -0800 3/7/02, Matthew Dillon wrote: >:Bruce also had some comments which were shrugged off, I thought they >:were important. Specifically, please do not make unnecessary changes >:to the assembler code. Macros do not need to be defined before they >:are used, I believe this was the ju

Re: fix is incomplete

2002-03-07 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 9:25 PM +0300 3/7/02, Andrey A. Chernov wrote: > fix is incomplete because 'u_int32_t' is not defined >(but must be) for standalone . Please add some includes >for u_int32_t definition too, probably As a minor side question, should we also have that defined as uint32_t instead of u_int32_t ?

Re: HEADS UP: Be nice to -CURRENT ( "1 week Feature Slush" )

2002-03-08 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 10:17 AM -0600 3/8/02, David W. Chapman Jr. wrote: >Yes. Recent changes to netinet/in.h have made it require the >inclusion of arpa/inet.h. As well, arpa/inet.h must include >netinet/in.h. IOW, each of these files must #include the >other in order to work correctly. > >As you might guess, this

Re: HEADS UP: Be nice to -CURRENT ( "1 week Feature Slush" )

2002-03-08 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 4:57 AM +1100 3/9/02, Bruce Evans wrote: >I'm surprised that everyone hasn't complained about world breakage >from this. It has been broken for almost 2 weeks now. Everything >that goes near ntohl and has WARNS >= 2 fails to compile. Without >WARNS, the bug is reported as above, but a bogus

Re: Preparing innocent users for -current

2002-03-08 Thread Garance A Drosihn
One thing to keep in mind here is that this is still going to be a snapshot of -current, and not a production release of -stable. We want a snapshot that does not have any serious problems, but "innocent users" should still realize that there are definitely going to be a lot of loose ends and roug

Re: HEADS UP: Be nice to -CURRENT ( "1 week Feature Slush" )

2002-03-08 Thread Garance A Drosihn
>On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Murray Stokely wrote: > >As discussed at BSDCon, the release engineers are committed > > to releasing a relatively stable snapshot of FreeBSD -CURRENT > > on or around April 1, 2002. Will this release include some kind of bootable-install support for any new hardware p

Re: HEADS UP: Be nice to -CURRENT ( "1 week Feature Slush" )

2002-03-08 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 6:32 PM -0600 3/8/02, David W. Chapman Jr. wrote: > > Try compiling KDE after installing a world with the > > following patch applied: > > http://people.FreeBSD.org/~mike/patches/endian-ng3.diff >> > > I plan on committing this on Sunday. > >I don't know if its related to this patch, but I

Re: CVS Issues with branch.. Was: Re: HEADS UP: Be nice to-CURRENT ( "1 week Feature Slush" )

2002-03-15 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 2:17 PM -0500 3/15/02, Robert Watson wrote: >My feeling is that at this point, we probably should just use >Perforce due to limitations in CVS. This seems fine to me. I am uneasy about perforce in cases where someone is developing something which is *meant* to be merged back into the main bra

Re: HEADS UP: -CURRENT Feature Slush is OVER

2002-03-17 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 1:15 AM -0800 3/17/02, Murray Stokely wrote: >On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 01:08:43AM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: >> Minimally, pick a date, and then do a CVS diff against that >> date, and include it on the CDROM. > > I would be happy to do this. I checked out a copy of the CVS tree >right bef

Re: HEADS UP: -CURRENT Feature Slush is OVER

2002-03-17 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 8:35 AM -0800 3/17/02, David O'Brien wrote: >My earlier concerns about the use of Perforce were when a developers >expected other developers to use Perforce for _shared_ development. >Or that tried to claim that their code was "published" if it was >in the Perforce depot on Freefall. Exactly m

Re: utmp and current

2002-03-18 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 10:36 PM -0800 3/17/02, whoever wrote: >Hi, > I updated to current 5.0 >several weeks back and just noticed that >the utmp logging for people users logged >in is missing. [...] All the listings in >last are also incomplete. >The last login entry for any ttyv* is the >last day I ran 4.4 s

Re: kernel build breaks in bktr_i2c.c

2002-03-23 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 2:54 PM -0600 3/23/02, Jim Bryant wrote: >last cvsup, less than an hour ago. > > I started with an empty obj-tree, and I ended up with an error from make being unable to make smbus.h In my case, I just reversed the change which made version 1.3 of: http://www.freebsd.

VMWare2 seems broken in recent -current

2002-03-23 Thread Garance A Drosihn
I've just upgraded my i386-current box from about March 13 to a snapshot from late last night. Now when I run vmware, the vmware program dies with: VMware Workstation PANIC: BUG F(571):1607 bugNr=2302 when I try to "Power on" some virtual machine. When I got in today, I cvsup'ed again, rem

Re: turning off malloc's AJ by default

2002-03-23 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 4:34 PM -0800 3/23/02, David wrote: >On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 05:23:35PM -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote: > > > > I think we should keep AJ enabled until at least DP2. It has > > found bugs in the past, and I suspect that a lot of new code > > is going in between now and then. > >Robert Watson

Re: VMWare2 was broken in recent -current (seems OK now)

2002-03-26 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 6:36 AM +0100 3/26/02, Mark Santcroos wrote: >Currently rebuilding with latest sources, will look into >it after that. Whatever the problem had been, it looks like it was fixed between March 23 and today (the 26th). I did a buildworld as of 4pm or so, and vmware2 is up and running OK on the m

Re: stdout changes break some ports

2002-03-31 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 10:46 PM -0800 3/30/02, Kris Kennaway wrote: >On Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 05:54:36PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 06:43:13PM -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote: > > > No. This isn't something that is guaranteed to work per > > > the standards, iirc. The proper fix is to put

Re: patch: make syslog stop spamming any root it finds...

2002-04-05 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 11:27 PM +0200 4/5/02, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >For the life of me I cannot understand why we feel the >need to whine like that at any root which crosses our >way, so unless somebody can explain to me why this is >vital, I'll commit the following patch. There are times when it has been useful

Re: The future of perl on FreeBSD

2002-05-09 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 6:29 PM -0500 5/9/02, Jordan DeLong wrote: > > Symlink or redirector, but please not this. :-) > >Shouldn't ports *not* touch anything outside of ${PREFIX}? >I, for one, can't stand when ports do that >(except /etc/shells -- that's different). I agree. That's why a redirector makes more sens

Re: -current and vmware2

2002-05-11 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 11:18 AM -0700 5/11/02, Julian Elischer wrote: >seems something broke in the networking side of things using >host-only networking.. vmnet1 doesn't show up any more.. > >If I have a moment I'll look for it but if anyone has >familiarity with it feel free to get there forst.. > >oh yeah.. it doe

Re: Upgrade instructions are incorrect

2002-05-22 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 7:02 PM +0300 5/22/02, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: >The upgrade instructions found in src/UPDATING and src/Makefile.inc1 >are not quite correct. Suggesting to reboot with the new kernel >and non-matching userland is safer than opposite of course, but >does not always work nor guaranteed to work at a

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