Current unassigned ports problem reports

2010-11-29 Thread FreeBSD bugmaster
(Note: an HTML version of this report is available at http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr-summary.cgi?category=ports .) The following is a listing of current problems submitted by FreeBSD users. These represent problem reports covering all versions including experimental development code and

Re: packages compressed with xz

2010-11-29 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 28.11.2010 22:12, schrieb Goran Tal: Now that the base system supports xz compression, it should be used as the default compression for packages. Files compressed with xz are smaller and decompress faster than those compressed with bzip2. This can make an installation much quicker,

Re: packages compressed with xz

2010-11-29 Thread jhell
On 11/29/2010 06:24, Matthias Andree wrote: Am 28.11.2010 22:12, schrieb Goran Tal: Now that the base system supports xz compression, it should be used as the default compression for packages. Files compressed with xz are smaller and decompress faster than those compressed with bzip2. This

Re: packages compressed with xz

2010-11-29 Thread Ion-Mihai Tetcu
On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 13:31:10 -0500 jhell jh...@dataix.net wrote: On 11/29/2010 06:24, Matthias Andree wrote: Am 28.11.2010 22:12, schrieb Goran Tal: Now that the base system supports xz compression, it should be used as the default compression for packages. Files compressed with xz are

Re: packages compressed with xz

2010-11-29 Thread Matthias Andree
Am 29.11.2010 19:31, schrieb jhell: Adding to this, as the manual says... The decompressing host will need to have at minimal 5% - 20% of memory 'available' for decompression of what the compressing host had. Seeing as FreeBSD still runs on systems with memory as little as 200MB ~20% of

Re: packages compressed with xz

2010-11-29 Thread Mark Linimon
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 12:40:33AM +0100, Matthias Andree wrote: Yes, would be nice. I doubt it will happen soon. It's actually being looked at. As part of the extensive rework of the pointyhat scripts I did this summer, I attempted to factor out all the magic constants, including the

Re: packages compressed with xz

2010-11-29 Thread jhell
On 11/29/2010 18:40, Matthias Andree wrote: Am 29.11.2010 19:31, schrieb jhell: Adding to this, as the manual says... The decompressing host will need to have at minimal 5% - 20% of memory 'available' for decompression of what the compressing host had. Seeing as FreeBSD still runs on systems

Re: dbf2mysql and hardcoded mysql-client version dependency

2010-11-29 Thread Miroslav Lachman
Miroslav Lachman wrote: Matthew Seaman wrote: On 28/11/2010 19:01, Miroslav Lachman wrote: Can somebody explain me, why databases/dbf2mysql has hardcoded dependency to mysql323-client? The Makefile contains: LIB_DEPENDS= mysqlclient.10:${PORTSDIR}/databases/mysql323-client But it is

Re: packages compressed with xz

2010-11-29 Thread Julien Laffaye
On 11/29/2010 23:40, Matthias Andree wrote: You can specify limits during compression, so the question is should we do that so that hosts with N MB of RAM can decompress packages? Do we retain the compression ratio over bzip2 if we limit compression memory to 512 MB so that decompression would

avant-window-navigator

2010-11-29 Thread Долгавин Алексей
Hello. I'm sorry for my question but... when will we have this port (x11/avant-window-navigator) with 0.4 version? Thanks for answer... ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe,

CFR: patch to cleanup usage of SRC_BASE in various ports

2010-11-29 Thread Mark Linimon
I am trying to debug a problem in the package building scripts, and in the process of debugging it, have found some inconsistencies with ports that require kernel sources. For installations that keep their latest sources in /usr/src, this patch should have no effect; however, for others (such as