Re: Is there a way to subscribe to the commit messages for only ports you maintain?

2021-05-17 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Tue, 18 May 2021, Julian H. Stacey wrote: I'd use /usr/ports/mail/procmail I wouldn't; it's an unsupported and obscure scripting language just asking for bugs, and actually has several CVEs against it. Better filters exist, such as "sieve" etc. -- Dave

Re: Hungarian: rST localisation for language "hu" not found

2021-04-14 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Wed, 14 Apr 2021, Thierry Thomas wrote: [...] Note: it builds for the other languages, and only fails for Hungarian. Well, somebody has to say it so it may as well be me: is your hovercraft full of eels? -- Dave ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org

Re: Deprecation of portsnap (was: Proposed ports git transition schedule)

2021-04-13 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Mon, 12 Apr 2021, Peter Jeremy via freebsd-ports wrote: Except that git will arbitrarily and randomly decide that it needs to run "gc" - which is similarly extravagant in memory usage. Last time I found one running, it thrashed that poor VM for 3 days. Would this be a good time to

Re: Python 2.7 removal outline

2021-03-25 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Thu, 25 Mar 2021, George Mitchell wrote: [...] it is really not for everybody to use overlays in current state (overlays are poor documented at least). [...] Until this thread I had never heard of them. -- George I can't remember the last time I used overlays (certainly

Re: MAIL ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICE CENTER

2021-02-15 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Tue, 16 Feb 2021, Yuri Pankov wrote: As this came from freebsd.org, were they trying to shout something or do they have a compromised server? It's obvious it did NOT come from freebsd.org once you check the headers: Really? Here are my headers: Return-Path: Received: from

Re: MAIL ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICE CENTER

2021-02-15 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Tue, 15 Feb 2021, administra...@freebsd.org wrote: (Nothing) As this came from freebsd.org, were they trying to shout something or do they have a compromised server? -- Dave ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH and /usr/local

2021-01-15 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Fri, 15 Jan 2021, Gleb Popov wrote: +if (CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME MATCHES "BSD") +include_directories("/usr/local/include") This is most certainly a wrong thing to do. Instead of simply adding -I/usr/local/include everywhere, you should fix problems for each dependency that the software

Re: FireFox keeps loosing data

2020-11-12 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Thu, 12 Nov 2020, Andrea Venturoli wrote: Firefox uses sqlite databases to store cookies, history and other items. You should never store these on NFS. Really? It has worked properly for years; it's only been broken for some months. Besides history works perfectly. Wouldn't any corruption

Re: Patch compiler warnings away?

2020-10-02 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Thu, 1 Oct 2020, Moritz Schmitt wrote: I recently took over my first maintainership of a port and I have a question regarding on how to deal with compiler warnings. I've always treated warnings as potential errors, and act accordingly. One place I worked insisted that "-Wall" produce no

Re: Aggressive ports removal

2020-08-30 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Sun, 30 Aug 2020, Yuri wrote: However, not many people are willing to install sysutils/bsdstats, or know about it, so it only counts based on a tiny fraction of hosts running FreeBSD. Tried to install it, and... aneurin# portinstall bsdstats [Reading data from pkg(8) ... - 322

Re: Aggressive ports removal

2020-08-30 Thread Dave Horsfall
[ I seem to have missed the post to which this refers ] On Sun, 30 Aug 2020, Niclas Zeising wrote: Exactly. Another case in point: x11/xtset. Maintenance stopped in 1993, 11 days after the FreeBSD project came into existence. It works fine, and I find it very useful. If at some time in

Re: [HEADS UP] Planned deprecation of portsnap

2020-08-12 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Mon, 10 Aug 2020, Robert Huff wrote: There are many users who never create any patches, but simply use the ports tree to install software. Add my name to that list. Mine too; this is a great way to drive "ordinary users" away from FreeBSD and towards, gasp, Penguin/OS... I took up

Re: State changes via pkg's scripts

2020-07-08 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Wed, 8 Jul 2020, Dewayne Geraghty wrote: # cat +MANIFEST | jq -rM '.scripts' Sorry, but this always pushes one of my buttons. When using "cat file | proc" what's wrong with "proc < file"? -- Dave ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: LibreOffice 6.4.4 is coming!

2020-06-11 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Thu, 11 Jun 2020, Shawn Webb wrote: There is nothing inconvenient about enjoying your hard work. You're awesome and your work (along with any other contributors) is very much appreciated. Thank you so much for all you do. Agreed; don't apologise for doing (hard) volunteer work, and of

Re: lsof marked ignored

2020-03-20 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Fri, 20 Mar 2020, Adam Weinberger wrote: That error should only occur if system sources are missing from /usr/src. Check that they're still there, and if not then check them out from svn. Does it not require kernel header files only? Only distributed with the source, which annoyed me

Re: [RFC] Adding a Rados block driver to bhyve

2020-03-09 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Mon, 9 Mar 2020, Miroslav Lachman wrote: There are some ports (for example sysutils/lsof) which need kernel sources to build. [...] Kernel sources, or just the headers? -- Dave ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: xterm-353

2020-02-03 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Mon, 3 Feb 2020, Christoph Moench-Tegeder wrote: You're right. For some reason, firefox is not handling the additional compression correctly (I see Content-Encoding: gzip in the headers, so it's advertised, but not unzipped by the browser, so I get a double- compressed file. Oh tempora, oh

Re: Is IPV6 option still necessary?

2019-10-08 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Wed, 9 Oct 2019, Wolfgang Zenker wrote: So, you don't *need* IPv6. But you might *want* to have it anyway. In my 40+ years career I've only encountered one (1) client that ran IPv6 internally (oddly enough, a law firm) and that was by management decree, not the tehchies' (come to think

Re: FireFox and NFSv4

2019-06-13 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Thu, 13 Jun 2019, Andrea Venturoli wrote: For years I've had my home on an NFSv3 server. Finally I decided to move to NFSv4. [...] I got bitten quite badly by NFS in its early years; I see nothing much has changed... I think it was to do with file-locking, I think. -- Dave

Re: FreeCAD 0.17 && /lib//libgcc_s.so.1

2019-02-22 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Fri, 22 Feb 2019, Tijl Coosemans wrote: If I were the lang/gcc maintainer this -rpath problem would be my number one priority. The current maintainer has never proposed any solutions and when I submit patches he always resists. I'm done wasting my time fighting him. I'm late to this

Re: Of Git and M$

2018-06-15 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Fri, 15 Jun 2018, Michael Gmelin wrote: github != git I didn't say that it was; did you misunderstand my message or something? -- Dave ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To

Of Git and M$

2018-06-15 Thread Dave Horsfall
A related discussion reminded me of this: how would Microsoft's purchase of GitHub affect future development? After all, they'll get to call the shots...[*] The only good thing that came out of M$ is their RTF document format (used natively by the Mac's TextEdit utility, for example), which

Re: Practice of "Sponsored by" in commit messages

2018-05-14 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Mon, 14 May 2018, Maxim Sobolev wrote: It is like someone trying to moderate what people in general or some group in particular (e.g. freebsd committers) are allowed to put on their t-shirts just because you find it offensive or inappropriate. Now, where did I put that link to the

Re: Ports and Packages

2018-04-20 Thread Dave Horsfall
blew away my swap/tmp) with no problems. I prefer to use ports because that way I get to specify the options that I want (as opposed to generic ones which may not apply to me), but I'll use the package when someone assumes that I have both terabytes and gigahertz to burn... -- Dave Horsfall

Problem with old files in freebsd-update/files

2018-02-27 Thread Dave Horsfall
v 8 2014 1b1e8f42628bcadd6b9a073012d798b0a4809bf72c1bf7cebefae7de5af7.gz Bit old, aren't they? -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer." ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists

Re: MESON_ARGS

2018-02-20 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Tue, 20 Feb 2018, Walter Schwarzenfeld wrote: There were whitespaces in the Makfile, seems caused this. This dates from PWB/UNIX i.e. about 40 years ago; I wonder if it will ever be fixed? White space is white space, FFS... -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't under

Re: apache24 and pkg check --recompute

2018-02-14 Thread Dave Horsfall
Was there some reason to remove those files? -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer." ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail t

Re: FreeBSD Palemoon branding violation

2018-02-07 Thread Dave Horsfall
, I find that I get better results from volunteers when I ask them to do something, instead of ordering them around like an arse-hat boss. -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer." ___ freebsd-ports@f

Re: FreeBSD Palemoon branding violation

2018-02-07 Thread Dave Horsfall
s the "VK2KFU" in my signature). -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer." ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe,

Re: FreeBSD Palemoon branding violation

2018-02-06 Thread Dave Horsfall
politer than I would've been; then again, being an Aussie I tend to be an outspoken bastard, and I would've told him to perform an anatomically-impossible act. "You will" indeed... -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand secur

Re: Mailman has mismatched checksums

2018-01-17 Thread Dave Horsfall
-corrupted... I'm surprised that this breakage hasn't been noted until now. -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer." ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/li

Mailman has mismatched checksums

2018-01-16 Thread Dave Horsfall
with mismatched checksums: mailman-2.1.25: /usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Defaults.py mailman-2.1.25: /usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Defaults.pyc No configuration whatsoever was done; I merely installed the package and waited for any more updates to arrive. So, what can I do about it? -- Dave

Re: All those notes...

2018-01-07 Thread Dave Horsfall
"simh-nova" but "vax" doesn't become "simh-vax" etc. What a shambles... Now to pay vewwy vewwy close attention to the Mailman notes, as I've just installed it for the first time and it ain't working... -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU)

All those notes...

2018-01-07 Thread Dave Horsfall
[...] Etc (over a hundred of 'em). This was accompanied by zillions of notes, warning me to "do this" and "avoid doing that" etc. Err, were those notes squirreled away somewhere, or do I have to hope that I don't lose the window and its scrollback buffer? -- Da

Re: I've started getting ^@^@> in my xterms w/mutt

2018-01-03 Thread Dave Horsfall
y up to 2.20 without it... Oh, and still no response from "mb...@xs4all.nl"; is he/she/it still alive? -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer." ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https:

Re: Of LSOF

2017-12-27 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Wed, 27 Dec 2017, Kevin Oberman wrote: fstat(1) does much of what lsof does. I'll be damned; so it does... Thanks! -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer." ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org ma

Re: Of LSOF

2017-12-27 Thread Dave Horsfall
t was "mfs"), and even my old CP/M box (where it was "M:"). -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer." ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/lis

Re: Of LSOF

2017-12-26 Thread Dave Horsfall
at the time; I didn't build this system) because it wanted a certain #include file. I reported this in a PR saying that perhaps all header files be shipped, but I dunno what happened. -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will s

Of LSOF

2017-12-26 Thread Dave Horsfall
ate. All repositories are up to date. Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting) Your packages are up to date. aneurin# Building it from ports updated it (as I probably did before), but should not the binary have been updated? Or are binaries not available for all ports (I guess)? -- Dave Horsf

Re: Procmail got updated!

2017-12-23 Thread Dave Horsfall
ate the next morning, had been on the turps all night? Call it a wild guess on his part, but he somehow knew that I was the perp... -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer." ___ free

Re: Procmail got updated!

2017-12-20 Thread Dave Horsfall
"jive" being de-ported (to coin a phrase)? No technical reason whatsoever, but apparently it upset someone's delicate sensibilities, so there's sort of a precedent. -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand secur

Procmail got updated!

2017-12-17 Thread Dave Horsfall
Doing my regular update, and... Upgrading procmail from 3.22_9 to 3.22_10... Good grief; who's the masochist who volunteered to support this obscure insecure and hitherto-unsupported scripting language? -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will s

Re: Procmail Vulnerabilities check

2017-12-11 Thread Dave Horsfall
r*. I'd love to do that; what's the IP range of their scanners (I assume that they have more than one)? -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer." ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://list

Re: Procmail Vulnerabilities check

2017-12-10 Thread Dave Horsfall
, such as /etc/mail/access and DNSBLs etc? (I hope it's a coincidence that its name is also the same as the pro-spam Direct Marketing Association...) -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer." ___ freebsd-ports@f

Re: The ports@ list is now subscriber-post only

2017-12-09 Thread Dave Horsfall
rg Thu Nov 30 16:25:12 2017 And that was only from when I started saving them; I just *love* demolishing specious arguments such as the above. -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer." ___ freebsd-ports

Re: The ports@ list is now subscriber-post only

2017-12-09 Thread Dave Horsfall
all now (yes, that would've been a major factor in my decision to flee elsewhere). -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer." ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailma

Re: Procmail Vulnerabilities check

2017-12-08 Thread Dave Horsfall
looks like Sendmail supports LDAP to me... -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer." ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send

Re: Procmail Vulnerabilities check

2017-12-08 Thread Dave Horsfall
uins); I've spent about 30 years with Sendmail and I ain't changing (I looked at Postfix but didn't like it)... -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer." ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mail

Re: Procmail Vulnerabilities check

2017-12-08 Thread Dave Horsfall
delicate sensibilities.) -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer." ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to &qu

Re: Flavors *COMPLETELY* break the port system (synth and poudriere are useless)

2017-12-07 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Thu, 7 Dec 2017, Jan Bramkamp wrote: [ Cogent explanation deleted ] Thanks for that clear explanation; I've been promised a much bigger server in return for some contract work, so I'll start planning for it. -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will s

Re: THANK YOU for flavors! (fwd)

2017-12-06 Thread Dave Horsfall
Errkk... This was meant for the list. -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer." -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2017 11:01:51 +1100 (EST) From: Dave Horsfall <d...@horsfall.org> To: Mel Pilgrim <list_free.

Re: Flavors *COMPLETELY* break the port system (synth and poudriere are useless)

2017-12-06 Thread Dave Horsfall
"income") has 512MB memory (all it will take) ad 1GB swap; building Ruby etc kills it, so I use packages in that case i.e. no customisation if I wanted it. -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer." ___

Re: (upgrading a port)

2017-11-25 Thread Dave Horsfall
process; I've been looking for one for quite a while... -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer." ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To u

Re: Does /var/cache/pkg ever get cleaned out?

2017-11-20 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Tue, 21 Nov 2017, Eugene Grosbein wrote: Shouldn't one of the divers package tools be cleaning them out, or is that a separate task? man pkg-clean Thanks; that's over a half-gigabyte recovered on a 1GB /var... -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand sec

Does /var/cache/pkg ever get cleaned out?

2017-11-20 Thread Dave Horsfall
? -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer." ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Firefox became much slower

2017-11-17 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Wed, 8 Nov 2017, Dave Horsfall wrote: It got really bad around 53 or so; I wish their programmers (no doubt fresh out of school) would fix existent bugs instead of adding frilly new "features"' we don't all have terabytes of free memory. Hmmm... Firefox 57.0 ("Quantum&

Re: Firefox became much slower

2017-11-07 Thread Dave Horsfall
are exhausted; then panic && reboot. It got really bad around 53 or so; I wish their programmers (no doubt fresh out of school) would fix existent bugs instead of adding frilly new "features"' we don't all have terabytes of free memory. -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Tho

Re: SF mastersites

2017-10-28 Thread Dave Horsfall
rk anywhere; I don't make use of local "features". -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer." ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports T

Spam on -ports

2017-10-26 Thread Dave Horsfall
Is it official FreeBSD policy to allow spammers free reign on this list, or is the list owner merely incompetent? -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer." ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing

Re: portmaster, portupgrade, etc

2017-10-06 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Thu, 5 Oct 2017, Chris H wrote: I'll second that.-- George (old fart w/50 years software experience) WooHoo! another greybeard! I'm at ~50yrs myself! Only 47 years exp here (the last 42 with Unix). -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will s

Re: Repository statistics

2017-08-01 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Tue, 1 Aug 2017, Miroslav Lachman wrote: There is some interesting project - repository statistics - comparison with many different OS package repositories like Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian etc. Good stuff! I never liked Penguin/OS anyway. -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who

Monday Pick (fwd)

2017-07-31 Thread Dave Horsfall
When is the cocksucker who runs this this list going to implement some simple anti-spam provisions? Or are you one of those idiotic "frea speach" spam supporters, so prevalent amongst Americans these days? -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand secur

Re: Alpine not displaying UTF-8

2017-07-22 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Thu, 13 Jul 2017, Dave Horsfall wrote: I upgraded my Alpine to 2.21 (from 2.20) recently, now it is no longer displaying UTF-8 characters (yes, I have it set). Anyone else noticed this? I need to know whether it's a port bug or an upstream bug, so I know who to beat up. Replies, anyone

Alpine not displaying UTF-8

2017-07-12 Thread Dave Horsfall
I upgraded my Alpine to 2.21 (from 2.20) recently, now it is no longer displaying UTF-8 characters (yes, I have it set). Anyone else noticed this? I need to know whether it's a port bug or an upstream bug, so I know who to beat up. -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't under

Re: The future of portmaster [and of ports-mgmt/synth]

2017-05-31 Thread Dave Horsfall
Ada, FFS? -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer." ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: cdecl port

2017-04-30 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Sun, 30 Apr 2017, Paul J. Lucas wrote: > Note that I don’t use FreeBSD myself; I’m just the author of the new > cdecl. And a great program it is too! I've been using it since it was first posted to Usenet. -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security

Re: Do I need /var/db/portsnap/distfiles and /usr/port/distfiles?

2017-02-16 Thread Dave Horsfall
ks; nearly 1GB here I come... > > 106594 /var/db/portsnap/files > > If you don't use portsnap then you can delete everything under > /var/db/portsnap. Don't delete these files if you do. Yes, I do use portsnap, so thanks for the advice. -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU)

Finally got ports rebuilt!

2017-02-14 Thread Dave Horsfall
t's pretty much it; many thanks to David Wolfskill and Tijl Coosemans for their kind assistance, and to the list members for their forbearance as I went through this learning exercise; I promise to keep ports up to date in the future. Thanks again. -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "

Re: Problem with building libgcrypt

2017-02-13 Thread Dave Horsfall
e 10.3 CD I burned had better be readable). -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer." ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe,

Re: Problem with building libgcrypt

2017-02-13 Thread Dave Horsfall
approach of "it it ain't broke, don't fix it" so I confined myself to kernel and security updates, otherwise leaving ports strictly alone. > What is the output of "pkg which /usr/local/lib/libiconv.la"? Not found; I sense a generic approach to any more errors of this typ

Re: Problem with building libgcrypt

2017-02-13 Thread Dave Horsfall
UTHOR: madpi...@freebsd.org 10-CURRENT after r254273 (committed on August 13, 2013) has an implementation of iconv enabled by default in libc. ? -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer." ___ fre

Problem with building libgcrypt

2017-02-12 Thread Dave Horsfall
Ummm, that's equivalent to the M$ "solution" of trying a reboot to see if it fixes it. It's asking me to review those errors before it continues; what could be wrong? Think of me as a beta tester for novices :-) -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't und

Question on upgrading ports after 9.3->10.3

2017-02-11 Thread Dave Horsfall
ocal is a separate file system). And then there's all my private stuff... I think it means "save any local configuration files etc"; if so, it could be better phrased. PS: For those who also have a Mac, do *not* futz around with symlinks in this manner, as it confuses the hell out

Re: libstdc++

2017-01-11 Thread Dave Horsfall
es to support a server farm? Sorry for all this, but until now this box has always been on 9.x, so this is my first major upgrade, hence I have zero experience... -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer." ___

Re: libstdc++

2017-01-11 Thread Dave Horsfall
I might want... > If you're getting packages with the wrong ABI, have you changed anything > in /etc/pkg/ or /usr/local/etc/pkg/? Haven't touched them, because I don't know what they are... -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer." _

libstdc++

2017-01-10 Thread Dave Horsfall
make "aspell" happy? Or is it one of those silly GNU things are aren't allowed to be distributed under another licence? -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer." ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailin

Re: portsnap temporary files

2017-01-07 Thread Dave Horsfall
iles being backed up, and thought the worst. And the sooner I upgrade to FreeBSD-10 the better, I think. Sorry for wasting everyone's time... -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer." ___ freebsd-ports

Re: portsnap temporary files

2017-01-06 Thread Dave Horsfall
ile"; could that be the problem? That INDEX hadn't been cleaned out for some reason? -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer." ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mail

Re: portsnap temporary files

2017-01-06 Thread Dave Horsfall
(Many responses) I note that no-one has answered the question which caused me to post the message in the first place viz: why weren't the files being removed automatically? Everyone appears to have missed this point... -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand sec

Re: portsnap temporary files

2017-01-06 Thread Dave Horsfall
ing of the > files I don't have that file. > I'm running portsnap on one system since portsnap was introduced and > never had issues with cleanups. Hmmm... -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer." ___

portsnap temporary files

2017-01-06 Thread Dave Horsfall
Is there some reason why portsnap cannot clean up /var/db/portsnap/files? I've just had to remove a zillion of them, a bunch at a time because "rm" choked on the arg list. Perhaps a "portsnap clean" command? I'm surprised that there isn't one. -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KF

Re: The ports collection has some serious issues

2016-12-20 Thread Dave Horsfall
ly what you were doing and making Dave H. look silly. > > What I have (and others) wanted? What would make us happy? Perhaps for you to just quietly FOAD? When it comes to common sense, you appear to be utterly impervious. -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don'

Re: The ports collection has some serious issues

2016-12-18 Thread Dave Horsfall
a friend; you don't. He doesn't troll; you do. And who is this "everyone", anyway? Either enumerate them, or STFU. -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer." ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org ma

FOCAL

2016-12-02 Thread Dave Horsfall
Be there an implementation of FOCAL? I have a hankering to get back to my early programming days :-) -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer." ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing

Binary for Ruby?

2016-11-20 Thread Dave Horsfall
by something which I've forgotten. -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer." ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, sen

Re: Inconsistency? (was Re: misc/jive deleted)

2016-10-25 Thread Dave Horsfall
anymore. :) Have you seen the FreeBSD home page? -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer." ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubsc

Re: misc/jive deleted

2016-10-22 Thread Dave Horsfall
to be marked as broken: aneurin% cd wmfortune aneurin% less *descr WMFortune outputs fortune messages, just as its name says. aneurin% make ===> wmfortune-0.241_3 is marked as broken: No public disfiles. *** [all] Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/games/wmfortune. Sigh... -- Dave Horsfa

Re: misc/jive deleted

2016-10-22 Thread Dave Horsfall
e interesting, for example; I actually had UUCP running on my home Z-80 box (there were overlays to hell and back). Next thing you know, "valgirl" will be deleted from Usenet... -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer." __

Re: harder and harder to avoid pkg

2016-10-14 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Fri, 14 Oct 2016, David Demelier wrote: > It's not writing a port that is complicated, it's the whole > infrastructure. You should see the Macports infrastructure... Fairly easy for the end user, but those developers sweat blood to make it so. -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) &quo

Re: What sort of a hog is Ruby?

2016-10-11 Thread Dave Horsfall
that I have run > into issues when I went to build some port which in turn built > many other ports, but that was quite some time ago. Maybe that > is what you're seeing. Yeah, it's a requirement of something else (I didn't install it by choice).

Re: Vulnerabilities in X libs

2016-10-08 Thread Dave Horsfall
my ports are clean - it was corrupt for a while), and won't go to p47 because of those vulnerabilities. I'm not too concerned; my system is locked down tighter than a duck's bum. -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer." __

Vulnerabilities in X libs

2016-10-08 Thread Dave Horsfall
May I assume that these are being addressed? libXrender-0.9.9 is vulnerable libX11-1.6.3,1 is vulnerable "freebsd-update fetch" is not (yet) fetching anything. -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand secur

What sort of a hog is Ruby?

2016-10-07 Thread Dave Horsfall
ort of disk farms do these developers have? I'm only a small-time user and wannabe developer... -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer." ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebs

Re: Will 10.3 clobber my ports area?

2016-10-04 Thread Dave Horsfall
also will give you the latest > versions of all ports. Many thanks! Now to pick a time to gird my loins... -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer." ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lis

Re: Will 10.3 clobber my ports area?

2016-10-04 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Wed, 5 Oct 2016, Dave Horsfall wrote: > Oh, this is for Joseph Mingrove: my mail log shows a message from you > (relayed via FreeBSD.org) but there's nothing in my mailbox about it > (and it certainly wasn't rejected). I guess I accidentally deleted it, > so could you please s

Re: Will 10.3 clobber my ports area?

2016-10-04 Thread Dave Horsfall
o could you please send it again? -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer." ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any

Will 10.3 clobber my ports area?

2016-10-03 Thread Dave Horsfall
Assuming the binary upgrade from 9.3 to 10.3 is "clean" i.e. it won't clobber any of my local stuff (this is my only FreeBSD server), what will happen to the ports area? Left alone, saved, or overwritten with/without any local chnages? -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "

Re: [maintainer change] net-mgmt/cnagios

2016-09-19 Thread Dave Horsfall
rin. As for Portuguese, it may as well come from a different planet... -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer." ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: LICENSE documentation

2016-09-14 Thread Dave Horsfall
are signatories to the Berne Convention? Last I looked, only nice friendly places such as China and North Korea were holding out (and USA was one of the last to sign, and even then with conditions). -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand

Re: Firefox 47.0 hangs when accessing cnn.com

2016-06-07 Thread Dave Horsfall
Binary works fine for me on my MacBook (OS/X), if that helps. -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer." ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/fre

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