Re: Port: astro/sunclock: Malaysia is in the wrong time zone

On Sunday, 21 March 2021 at 14:39:41 +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote: > On Sun, 21 Mar 2021 17:03:30 +1100 > raf wrote: > >> On Sun, Mar 21, 2021 at 11:31:34AM +0800, Erich Dollansky >> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I just noticed that Malaysia is in the same time zone as Jawa >>> (Indonesia) and

Re: Port upgrade: dead in the water

On Friday, 15 January 2021 at 22:16:44 -0600, Kyle Evans wrote: > On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 10:00 PM Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> >> After years I have finally got round to upgrading my main computer. >> My intention is to upgrade the ports as well, but pkg doesn't

Port upgrade: dead in the water

After years I have finally got round to upgrading my main computer. My intention is to upgrade the ports as well, but pkg doesn't want to play nice: # pkg-static install -f pkg pkg-static: Warning: Major OS version upgrade detected. Running "pkg-static install -f pkg" recommended Updating

xtset raison d'etre (was: Aggressive ports removal)

oint: x11/xtset. Maintenance stopped in >>> 1993, 11 days after the FreeBSD project came into existence. It works Well, no, he quoted: On Sunday, 30 August 2020 at 9:27:07 +1000, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > > Exactly. Another case in point: x11/xtset. Maintenance stopped in

Aggressive ports removal (was: svn commit: r546907 - head/x11-clocks/wmtime)

Sorry for the length of the quotes, but I've added people who might not have seen the (relatively long) thread on this subject. This seems the best message to refer to. On Saturday, 29 August 2020 at 16:09:12 +0200, Stefan Esser wrote: > Am 29.08.20 um 15:32 schrieb Niclas Zeising: >> On

Gratuitous port splitting (was: Port Avidemux)

On Friday, 22 May 2020 at 21:38:44 -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: > On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 1:55 PM Wiebe Pestman wrote: > >> Dear maintainer(s), >> Today I tried to install the port avidemux-2.7.4_1, but unfortunately >> without success. >> When running the command "make install" the whole process

Re: Pkg repository is broken...

On Saturday, 7 March 2020 at 23:55:33 +0100, Michael Gmelin wrote: [More irrelevant text deleted, also dropping current@] Is it really so difficult to trim your replies? >> On 7. Mar 2020, at 23:39, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> >> ???On Saturday, 7 March 2020 at 16:46

Re: Pkg repository is broken...

On Saturday, 7 March 2020 at 16:46:58 +0100, Michael Gmelin wrote: [much irrelevant text deleted] People, please trim your replies. Only relevant text should remain > On Sat, 07 Mar 2020 11:30:58 -0400 Waitman Gobble wrote: >> >> I installed 12.1 on a new laptop yesterday, I have not

Re: Pkg repository is broken...

On Friday, 6 March 2020 at 12:29:44 +0100, Lars Engels wrote: > On Wed, Mar 04, 2020 at 03:16:14PM +1100, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> >> Any workarounds in the meantime? This must affect a lot of people, >> including those who use 12-: >> >> pkg: wrong

Re: Pkg repository is broken...

On Monday, 2 March 2020 at 17:58:01 +, marco wrote: > On Sun, Mar 01, 2020 at 04:50:59PM -0500, you (Brennan Vincent) sent the > following to [freebsd-current] : >> Apparently something has its ABI erroneously listed as FreeBSD:13.0:amd64 >> instead of FreeBSD:13:amd64. >> >> ``` >> $ sudo

Re: [package - head-i386-default][graphics/hugin] Failed for hugin-2019.0.0_1 in build

I've received a number of these messages. Based on the fact that they seem to be a jail mismatch, I assume that this has nothing to do with the port itself. Can somebody confirm or deny this? If I need to do something, please explain. Greg On Friday, 19 April 2019 at 7:16:33 +,

Re: All those notes...

On Monday, 8 January 2018 at 8:48:04 +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote: > I'm not quite sure what happened since my last weekly "pkg update" etc but > it sure got busy: > > Checking for upgrades (198 candidates): 100% > Processing candidates (198 candidates): 100% > The following 110

Re: License and adopting software

[format recovered] On Sunday, 10 December 2017 at 23:31:33 -0800, Chris H wrote: > On Mon, 11 Dec 2017 12:24:53 +0800 "blubee blubeeme" > said >> On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 12:21 PM, Jonathan Chen wrote: >>> On 11 December 2017 at 17:17, blubee blubeeme

Re: License and adopting software

On Monday, 11 December 2017 at 12:24:53 +0800, blubee blubeeme wrote: > On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 12:21 PM, Jonathan Chen wrote: > >> On 11 December 2017 at 17:17, blubee blubeeme wrote: >>> I like some old software that's <= GPL2 but it seems like the >>>

Re: make reinstall does not work

On Sunday, 10 December 2017 at 20:32:38 +0100, Walter Schwarzenfeld wrote: > Look at the link in Shawn Webb's post: > > bapt (Baptisse Daroussin) wrote > > *bapt * replied Nov 16, 2017 > >

Re: make reinstall does not work

On Saturday, 9 December 2017 at 12:04:02 +0100, Walter Schwarzenfeld wrote: > Thanks, this explains and solved the problem. What? And how? Greg -- Sent from my desktop computer. Finger g...@freebsd.org for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. This message is

Re: make reinstall does not work

On Friday, 8 December 2017 at 18:29:25 -0500, Shawn Webb wrote: > On Fri, Dec 08, 2017 at 10:35:50PM +0100, Walter Schwarzenfeld wrote: >> I had a strange error: Make reinstall does not work anymore in the port >> (10.3-amd64) also FORCE_PKG_REGISTER. >> >> All other make commands works fine. I

Re: make reinstall does not work

[rearranged] On Friday, 8 December 2017 at 23:42:40 +0100, Jaap Akkerhuis wrote: >> On Dec 8, 2017, at 22:35, Walter Schwarzenfeld >> wrote: >> >> I had a strange error: Make reinstall does not work anymore in the port >> (10.3-amd64) also FORCE_PKG_REGISTER. >> >>

Re: THANK YOU for flavors! (fwd)

On Thursday, 7 December 2017 at 11:02:51 +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote: > On Thu, 7 Dec 2017 11:01:51 +1100 (EST), Dave Horsfall wrote: Since we're being pedantic, note that this should be AEDT. EST is ambiguous, but in general refers to the east coast of the USA. >> Serious question: is "FLAVOUR"

Re: Time for a firefox-56 port?

On Sunday, 26 November 2017 at 14:22:18 +1100, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Saturday, 25 November 2017 at 20:36:09 -0600, Zhihao Yuan wrote: >> So give it up, try Pale Moon. > > Does Pale Moon address my issues, specifically something to match > firemacs and It's all text!

Re: Time for a firefox-56 port?

On Saturday, 25 November 2017 at 22:27:47 -0500, Adam McDougall wrote: > On 11/23/2017 20:11, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> I've just installed the latest version of firefox and confirmed that >> it breaks both of the addons that make firefox bearable for me >

Re: Time for a firefox-56 port?

On Saturday, 25 November 2017 at 20:36:09 -0600, Zhihao Yuan wrote: > On Nov 25, 2017 8:15 PM, "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <g...@freebsd.org> wrote: > >> It doesn't address the addon issue. I expect that gradually the >> addons will get updated to the new interfac

Re: Time for a firefox-56 port?

On Saturday, 25 November 2017 at 19:33:18 -0600, Zhihao Yuan wrote: > On Nov 25, 2017 6:31 PM, "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <g...@freebsd.org> wrote: > >> I'm sure I'm not the only person who relies on old addons. How >> about a firefox-56 port until the current pro

Time for a firefox-56 port?

I've just installed the latest version of firefox and confirmed that it breaks both of the addons that make firefox bearable for me (firemacs, https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/firemacs/ and It's All Text!, https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/its-all-text/). So I can't use

Re: [HEADUP] FLAVORS landing.

On Wednesday, 27 September 2017 at 4:39:29 +1000, Andy Farkas wrote: > On 27/09/2017 04:22, Mathieu Arnold wrote: > >> Please read the whole email. > > What are FLAVORS and why do I need it? > > Is there somewhere that explains the intent and purpose? Thank you! Just the question I was going to

Re: PR looking for committer

On Tuesday, 5 September 2017 at 15:56:12 +0200, Fernando Apesteguía wrote: > Hi, > > Can a committer have a look at this? It blocks another port update > > https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=222001 Probably. In fact, you've probably caused several committers to look at it, but

Re: I went to install 11.1 yesterday

On Sunday, 20 August 2017 at 7:50:52 -0400, scratch65...@att.net wrote: > ...as a dual-boot with W7, but discovered that, like Linux (or at > least Ubuntu) 11 doesn't support MBR. So no dual-boot with older > Windows. People, this question has nothing to do with ports. If you awnt a mailing

graphics/glew (was: FreeBSD ports you maintain which are out of date)

On Saturday, 12 August 2017 at 10:14:18 +, portsc...@freebsd.org wrote: > Dear port maintainer, > > The portscout new distfile checker has detected that one or more of your > ports appears to be out of date... > > Port| Current version | New >

Re: FreeBSD Port: nvidia-driver-375.66

On Monday, 17 July 2017 at 15:58:05 -0700, David P. Discher wrote: > There is a new version of the nvidia driver on there site as of may 9th ??? > > Version: 381.22 > Release Date: 2017.5.9 > > This Added support for GeForce GT 1030 ??? which I???d imagine > others may start trying to use

Re: PRs in need of some TLC

On Monday, 26 June 2017 at 21:48:14 +0200, Martin Waschbüsch wrote: > Hi all, > > could someone have a look at these PRs (they are linked) and provide > some tender loving care? ;-) > > https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=220177 >

Re: The ports collection has some serious issues

On Saturday, 17 December 2016 at 20:16:12 -0600, John Marino wrote: > On 12/17/2016 19:35, Peter Jeremy wrote: >> $ cd /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/synth/ && make >> [ about an hour of grinding away elided ] >> ===> ini_file_manager-03_2 depends on file: /usr/local/gcc6-aux/bin/ada - >> not found >>

Re: FOCAL

On Saturday, 3 December 2016 at 11:40:36 +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote: > Be there an implementation of FOCAL? I have a hankering to get back to my > early programming days :-) Heh. I have a paper tape from my first year at uni somewhere in the mess on my desk. It's been there for at least 10

Re: Alternatives to rsync

On Monday, 17 October 2016 at 6:51:05 -0700, Freddie Cash wrote: > On Oct 17, 2016 1:21 AM, "Lars Engels" wrote: >> >> rsync 2 has a different algorithm for checking if a file changed. The >> new one is much faster. > > Rsync 2 also spent a long time building a list of

Re: Alternatives to rsync

On Friday, 14 October 2016 at 8:01:51 +0300, reko.turja--- via freebsd-ports wrote: > > Greg, I've actually put some thought in making a local port of > rsync2. I've done some research on it and it seems to be fairly > usable and security patched still. Even simpler, use the old version of the

Re: Alternatives to rsync

On Thursday, 13 October 2016 at 18:13:39 +1030, Shane Ambler wrote: > On 13/10/2016 15:09, reko.turja--- via freebsd-ports wrote: >> One of my users is needing rsync like functionality to transfer changed >> contents of some directories between couple of machines. As rsync 3 >> isn't open source,

Re: dependency explosions

On Monday, 3 October 2016 at 20:41:08 -0400, Baho Utot wrote: > > On 10/03/16 19:21, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> On Monday, 3 October 2016 at 14:14:13 +0200, Mathieu Arnold wrote: >>> Le 01/10/2016 à 04:35, Julian Elischer a écrit : >>>> Such a

Re: dependency explosions

On Monday, 3 October 2016 at 14:14:13 +0200, Mathieu Arnold wrote: > Le 01/10/2016 à 04:35, Julian Elischer a écrit : >> Such a 'minimum' install should probably be the default when coming >> in as a dependency, as there is an increasing tendency to configure >> things with all the bells and

Re: FreeBSD Port: digikam-4.14.0,2

On Thursday, 26 May 2016 at 22:29:32 +0200, delipu wrote: > Hi, > > is it possible to enable mysql support with digikam. In earlier versions > it was enabled by default. Without access to my database it is pretty > useless now. Any help much appreciated. Looking at the Makefile, it's still there,

Re: FreeBSD ports you maintain which are out of date

On Saturday, 14 May 2016 at 13:47:01 +, portsc...@freebsd.org wrote: > Dear port maintainer, > > The portscout new distfile checker has detected that one or more of your > ports appears to be out of date. Please take the opportunity to check > each of the ports listed below, and if possible

Re: databases/mariadb100-client fails to compile

On Tuesday, 10 May 2016 at 10:03:24 +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: > I'm unable to get databases/mariadb100-client to compile on 10-stable/amd64. > It fails as follows: > > Scanning dependencies of target mysqlclient > gmake[4]: Leaving directory >

Re: PRs ready for commit

On Wednesday, 4 May 2016 at 7:34:40 +0200, Bradley T. Hughes wrote: > Howdy! > > I've got a few PRs up that are ready for a willing and able committer: > > https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=209214 > https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=209215 >

Re: Strangenesses with package dependencies

On Thursday, 7 April 2016 at 3:03:47 -0700, Don Lewis wrote: > On 7 Apr, Don Lewis wrote: >> On 7 Apr, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >>> Bug 208575 describes a problem installing the hugin package: most of >>> the dependencies didn't get installed... >> >>

Strangenesses with package dependencies

Bug 208575 describes a problem installing the hugin package: most of the dependencies didn't get installed. It works fine building the port from source, and neither I nor edwin@ (ex-mentor) can work out why. Here's what I get when I try 'pkg install hugin' on my test box: FreeBSD

Re: Maintainer gone?

On Wednesday, 24 February 2016 at 17:55:02 +0100, Heino Tiedemann wrote: > Hi, > > I had an open PR since some weeks. It seems, the the maintainer is > gone. In the first time we had a living discussion about that > problem. Ha made a spacial patch, so I tested it ?V but: did not work. > >

synth documentation (was: Removing documentation)

On Tuesday, 9 February 2016 at 15:08:22 +0100, John Marino wrote: > > Do you think the illustrated README on the github page is helpful? > > https://github.com/jrmarino/synth I looked at that a couple of days ago. It's certainly much better than anything else I've seen on github, but it's still

Discussions in closed PRs

Further to my mail yesterday, wblock@ closed PR 206922 (about whether portmaster should be documented in the handbook). But it refuses to die! After closure, there have been another 12 entries discussing the relative merits of portmaster and synth, during which it eventuated that marino@ wants

Moving to synth (was: Removing documentation)

On Monday, 8 February 2016 at 23:15:45 +0100, John Marino wrote: > On 2/8/2016 11:07 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> I think you're missing the point. If this were the criterion for >> becoming maintainer, there's a good chance that nobody would >> volunteer. Your

Re: Removing documentation

On Monday, 8 February 2016 at 14:47:27 +0100, John Marino wrote: > On 2/8/2016 2:40 PM, Mark Linimon wrote: >> On Sun, Feb 07, 2016 at 03:21:49PM +0100, John Marino wrote: >>> Anybody proposing to be maintainer, in my opinion, should first be >>> required to take over every open PR in bugzilla >>

Re: Removing documentation

On Sunday, 7 February 2016 at 12:44:32 +0100, Torsten Zühlsdorff wrote: > Hello, > >>> You have a tool presented as "official" that hasn't had it's >>> original maintainer in 4 years and was only kept on life support up >>> until 9 months ago. >> >> Agreed, the "official" (the term used is

Removing documentation (was: [Bug 206922] Handbook: Chapter 4.5+ changes)

I'm bringing this to the attention of the ports community to try to come up with a consensus about how to handle existing documentation for ageing packages, in this case portmaster. This bug report suggests removing the documentation for portmaster because it is out of date and no longer

Re: svn: E000022: ?\A0@@?\C8V @8@@@?\84?\D4

On Wednesday, 9 December 2015 at 20:58:37 +0100, Matthias Apitz wrote: > El día Wednesday, December 09, 2015 a las 08:51:05PM +0100, O. Hartmann > escribió: > >> Found a strange entry in ports/www/links1: >> >> >> total 435 >> 766755 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel uarch0B Dec 9 16:26 >>

Re: Ports with duplicate LATEST_LINKs

On Wednesday, 19 August 2015 at 9:15:00 +1000, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Tuesday, 18 August 2015 at 12:37:31 +, Ports Index build wrote: Dear port maintainers, The following list includes ports maintained by you that have duplicate LATEST_LINK values. Without counting, it looks

Re: Ports with duplicate LATEST_LINKs

On Tuesday, 18 August 2015 at 12:37:31 +, Ports Index build wrote: Dear port maintainers, The following list includes ports maintained by you that have duplicate LATEST_LINK values. Without counting, it looks like a complete list of all ports, unsorted. Would it be possible to modify the

Re: pkg mirrors broken

On Thursday, 8 January 2015 at 20:03:32 -0800, Doug Barton wrote: On 1/8/15 8:00 PM, Doug Barton wrote: FYI: === Waiting on fetch checksum for ports-mgmt/pkg === fetch: http://mirror.shatow.net/freebsd/pkg/pkg-1.4.4.tar.xz: Forbidden ... and again: = Attempting to fetch

Re: value of maintaining emacs-mode packages in ports

On Sunday, 23 November 2014 at 0:32:14 +0100, Christopher J. Ruwe wrote: I am well aware that very probably I might be starting a rant thread, however, I am genuinely interested in opinions from the community. Since version 24, Emacs, the very good operating system missing only a decent

Re: Requesting Committer Attention for ports/184011 (Pkgng support in net-mgmt/nagios-check_ports)

On Sunday, 16 February 2014 at 20:08:28 -0600, Ryan Frederick wrote: I'd like to request that a committer take a gander at ports/184011 for me when possible. This is a pr I submitted three months ago and was never acted upon by the previous maintainer. Always a good idea to quote text that the

Re: Call for testers: MythTV 0.21 port upgrade

On Thursday, 22 January 2009 at 20:41:01 -0500, Greg Larkin wrote: Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On another machine, where I have a MySQL server with an old version of the mythconverg database, I can't start it: it connects to the database, finds that it's the wrong version, and stops again. I

Re: Call for testers: MythTV 0.21 port upgrade

On Sunday, 18 January 2009 at 12:24:47 +, Craig Butler wrote: On another machine, where I have a MySQL server with an old version of the mythconverg database, I can't start it: it connects to the database, finds that it's the wrong version, and stops again. I suspect that I could fix that

Re: Call for testers: MythTV 0.21 port upgrade

On Thursday, 15 January 2009 at 17:35:40 -0500, Greg Larkin wrote: Hello all of you MythTV supporters with the collective patience of the universe! I recently committed mythtv-frontend (PR 127856) and mythtv-themes (PR 127857), and please let me know if you see any problems with the updates.

Re: Call for testers: MythTV 0.21 port upgrade

On Friday, 31 October 2008 at 16:05:16 -0400, Greg Larkin wrote: I've been working on PR 126343 (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/126343) to get MythTV upgraded to 0.21 on FreeBSD. Sorry for the slow reply. I've been busy with other things, and currently I'm not in a position

Keyboard problems with xorg 7.2 and Dell Inspiron 5100?

I've just upgraded my Inspiron 5100 to the latest and greatest X.org release, 7.2. Using the standard configuration options (either no config file, or the one generated by X -configure), most keys on the keyboard don't react. I've ran xev against the server and find that the only keys that react

Re: HEADSUP: removing the old cyrus-sasl port

On Friday, 30 March 2007 at 19:05:17 +0200, Gabor Kovesdan wrote: Dear Port Maintainers, I would like to inform you that the security/cyrus-sasl port is deprecated and expired. It is pretty old and not really supported any more. ... Could you please modify your ports to use cyrus-sasl2

Re: Porting a Linux application to FreeBSD

On Monday, 12 February 2007 at 14:35:34 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I was referred here by some people in the hackers@ list because I asked a porting related question and I should have asked it on this list. I was wondering steps people had used in the past for porting

Re: unable to fetch mysql-5.0.33.tar.gz

On Friday, 9 February 2007 at 15:06:59 -0800, Noah wrote: any clues how I can find the mysql-5.0.33.tar.gz file so I can build the port? You have already fetched it, but something went wrong: === Extracting for mysql-server-5.0.33 = MD5 Checksum mismatch for mysql-5.0.33.tar.gz. = SHA256

Removing linphone?

I've just tried to reinstall the linphone port and see that it's marked broken and deprecated. Does anybody know of an alternative which supplies a command-line SIP client? Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers. pgpODw5K3adWJ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Building a port for an X11 hardware driver

I've recently bought a a VIA K8M890-based motherboard. This chip set has onboard VGA, but it's not supported by X.org or XFree86 (well, the vesa driver recognizes it, but that's not saying much). On the other hand, VIA has X.org drivers for it in source form, which for some reason X.org has not