How to migrate from ports/emulators/linux_base-c6 to linux_base-c7?

2016-09-30 Thread David Wolfskill
Per ports/UPDATING entry 20141215, I have been using emulators/linux_base-c6 on my laptop for some time. I recently noticed that ports/emulators/linux_base-c7 now exists (as of r421391: 2016-09-05 13:10:30 -0700 (Mon, 05 Sep 2016)). On the other hand, while I count 76 "linux{,base}-c6*" ports

Re: VirtualBox whines (VERR_SUPLIB_SYMLINKS_ARE_NOT_PERMITTED).

2015-01-19 Thread David Wolfskill
On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 01:28:16PM -0800, Xin Li wrote: On 01/19/15 12:47, David Wolfskill wrote: ... Failed to open a session for the virtual machines [Vmachine name here] Failed to loaf VMMRO.r0 (VERR_SUPLIB_SYMLINKS_ARE_NOT_PERMITTED). [That should have read load -- sorry. dhw

Re: net-im/skype* vs. linux-c6-*:

2014-11-09 Thread David Wolfskill
On Fri, Nov 07, 2014 at 08:30:08AM -0800, David Wolfskill wrote: ... command: portmaster net-im/skype-devel ]0;portmaster: net-im/skype-devel === Port directory: /usr/ports/net-im/skype-devel === This port is marked IGNORE === bsd.linux-apps.mk test failed: The component

net-im/skype* vs. linux-c6-*:

2014-11-07 Thread David Wolfskill
A niece has encouraged me to use Skype (claiming that it works well on her Linux box), but I don't seem to be able to build any of the net-im/skype* ports on my laptop. I'm running stable/10: g1-252(10.1-P)[2] uname -aKU FreeBSD g1-252.catwhisker.org 10.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 10.1-PRERELEASE #1381

Does linux-c6-flashplugin-11.2r202.406 work under stable/10?

2014-10-27 Thread David Wolfskill
Yesterday, I (mostly -- adapted to pkg) followed the process at the bottom of portmaster(8) to rebuild all of the installed ports on my laptop under stable/10 @r273626. There was some turbulence in the process, and I noted that after it comleted, despite having run nspluginwrapper -v -a -i (yes,

Re: Does linux-c6-flashplugin-11.2r202.406 work under stable/10?

2014-10-27 Thread David Wolfskill
On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 03:09:00PM -0600, Warren Block wrote: On Mon, 27 Oct 2014, David Wolfskill wrote: Yesterday, I (mostly -- adapted to pkg) followed the process at the bottom of portmaster(8) to rebuild all of the installed ports on my laptop under stable/10 @r273626. r273642

Re: Does linux-c6-flashplugin-11.2r202.406 work under stable/10?

2014-10-27 Thread David Wolfskill
On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 04:08:43PM -0600, Warren Block wrote: ... It's working here. Do you actually have the Flash plugin port installed? The pkg delete step will have deleted the old one, and then www/linux-c6-flashplugin11 must be manually installed. g1-252(10.1-P)[1] pkg info