Re: src/games bikeshed time.

2002-10-10 Thread James Howard
On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Mark Murray wrote: So if someone were willing to take over the lot and manage them as Ports, how would anyone feel about this? FreeGrep uses the FreeBSD build style and is easily a Port. I could Port-ify the entire directory in, say, two days. Anyone interested?

Re: src/games bikeshed time.

2002-10-09 Thread James Howard
So if someone were willing to take over the lot and manage them as Ports, how would anyone feel about this? FreeGrep uses the FreeBSD build style and is easily a Port. I could Port-ify the entire directory in, say, two days. Anyone interested? Jamie On Wednesday, October 9, 2002, at 09:41

Re: src/games bikeshed time.

2002-10-09 Thread James Howard
As a quick follow up, the PR database shows between fifteen and twenty PRs relating to src/games. Also, if this happened, should fortune be treated differently and moved into src/usr.bin? Or should it become a port? Jamie On Wednesday, October 9, 2002, at 09:58 PM, James Howard wrote: So

Re: PATCH: /usr/src/usr.bin/login

2001-05-20 Thread James Howard
On Wed, 16 May 2001, Terry Lambert wrote: This patch adds the prompt and passwd_prompt fields to the /etc/login.conf, which makes lgoin more like getty in its ability to be configured. Cool, I used to hack mine by hand to look like OpenVMS... Jamie To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: /usr/ports/ too big?

2000-02-13 Thread James Howard
On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Kai Voigt wrote: Hello, I'm just doing a cvsup update of my system and -as many times before- I realize that /usr/ports/ takes a lot of time and also disk space to sync. # du -sk /usr/ports 71118 /usr/ports Am I the only one being little annoyed by this fact?

EXT2FS as a KLD

2000-02-02 Thread James Howard
Would someone please look at kern/14217 to maybe be included in 4.0-STABLE? I know, I should have asked last week but it just occurred to me now. Thank you, Jamie -- Jamie Howard To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: Port of ext2fs fsck

1999-12-25 Thread James Howard
On Sun, 26 Dec 1999, Bruce Evans wrote: Yes, but isn't this stuff GPL'd? The fsck_ext2fs program from Open- or NetBSD is not. Sure. So is ext2fs for FreeBSD, and some other small programs like gcc. Is the ext2fs implementation in Net or Open GPL'd? If not, copy it too. Jamie To

Re: grep -a (-stable)

1999-12-07 Thread James Howard
On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Max Khon wrote: hi, there! it is not possible to make short equivalent for old grep -a option (as in grep 2.3 -a is used for other purposes). it is possible to make a long option (--skip-binary) but long options are quite unusable. GREP_OPTIONS cannot help much (I

Re: grep -a (-stable)

1999-12-07 Thread James Howard
On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Max Khon wrote: I know about this beast. It would be nice if our out-of-box grep had this option. Hah, it used to. I modeled it exactly on it (option-wise). BTW, if you do choose to use it, get it soon. I submitted a PR yesterday for my newest version. It is a faster,

Re: removing enigma(1)

1999-12-01 Thread James Howard
On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: On Wed, Dec 01, 1999 at 04:09:11PM -0500, a little birdie told me that Bakul Shah remarked Enigma is just a format converter at this point and should be left around (after renaming it crypt -- which is how it is known on all Unix versions

Re: FreeSSH

1999-10-13 Thread James Howard
On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, Patrick Bihan-Faou wrote: Hi All, It strikes me that having the base system be slightly more decomposed could be advantageous. It would be great to be able to do something like: pkg_delete lp pkg_delete yp Has anyone done/tried this in the past,