Hi secur...@freebsd.org
(& bcc'd a couple of friends)
Refa:
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-32814309
(posted 5 hours before Wed May 20 23:01:22 CEST 2015)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/05/20/logjam_impact/
20 May 2015 at 16:29
Does it affect FreeBSD ? If so, I guess securi
Hi, Reference:
> From: "Chris H"
> Date: Tue, 19 May 2015 00:43:20 -0700
"Chris H" wrote:
> On Mon, 18 May 2015 16:23:30 +0200 "Julian H. Stacey" wrote
>
> > Hi m...@foster.cc as MAINTAINER= of current/ports/audio/cd2mp3
> &g
Hi m...@foster.cc as MAINTAINER= of current/ports/audio/cd2mp3
===> cd2mp3-0.82_4,1 is marked as broken: Fails to fetch.
Here is a temporary copy of distfile
http://www.berklix.com/ftp/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/cd2mp3-0.82.tar.gz
Please copy it somewhere & remove BROKEN= , It is just 3.5K !
Thanks.
> From: Jan Beich
> Date: Fri, 08 May 2015 04:11:26 +0200
Jan Beich wrote:
> --=-=-=
> Content-Type: text/plain
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
>
> "Julian H. Stacey" writes:
>
> > lini...@freebsd.org wrote:
> > Su
lini...@freebsd.org wrote:
cc'd chinsan...@gmail.com as original creator of Makefile as
MAINTAINER= ports@
> As part of an ongoing effort to reduce the number of problems in
> portname: graphics/epdfview
> broken because: No public distfiles
> build errors: none.
> overvie
lini...@freebsd.org wrote:
Subject:Re: FreeBSD unmaintained ports which are currently marked broken
I added cc: m...@freebsd.org FYI as creator of Makefile
> As part of an ongoing effort to reduce the number of problems in
> portname: comms/seyon
> broken because: Unfetchabl
Hi, Reference:
> From: "Julian H. Stacey"
> Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2015 17:27:16 +0200
"Julian H. Stacey" wrote:
> Hi ports@ as ex MAINTAINER= of syutils/jailutils
>
> portupgrade on my 10.1-RELEASE reported syutils/jailutils
> was deleted as n
Hi ports@ as ex MAINTAINER= of syutils/jailutils
portupgrade on my 10.1-RELEASE reported syutils/jailutils
was deleted as no Distfile.
I have
93248 Dec 9 2004 ./4.11-RELEASE/jailutils-1.0.tar.gz
94118 Sep 3 2008 ./6.4-RELEASE/jailutils-1.3.tar.gz
98976 Aug 26 2009 ./10
Hi po...@freebsd.org
current/ports/security/nss is broken. How to fix it ?
PS I first asked via Makefile MAINTAINER= address freebsd-ge...@freebsd.org
but no reply, (list swamped in noise from freebsd.org robots).
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-gecko/2015-March/005233.html
To: ge...
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 03:31:54PM -0800, John-Mark Gurney wrote:
> > Chris H wrote this message on Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 15:08 -0800:
> > > On Tue, 10 Feb 2015 14:21:28 -0800 John-Mark Gurney =
> wrote
> > >=20
> > > > Hello,
> > > >=20
> > > > I'm going to be removing bdes (and possibly enigma)
Michelle Sullivan wrote: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 13:30:59 +0100
> Matt Smith wrote:
> > On Jan 14 12:15, Mathieu Arnold wrote:
> >>
> >> Well, like I said, REPLACE_BASE was an abomination that should never
> >> have
> >> existed, now that it's gone, it'll never get back, and you'll never
> >> see it
> >>
Hi, Reference:
> From: The BSD Dreamer
> Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2015 21:25:11 -0600
The BSD Dreamer wrote:
>
> On 2015-01-09 07:42, Mathieu Arnold wrote:
> > +--On 8 janvier 2015 19:44:09 -0800 Doug Barton wrote:
> > | Can you please explain why this option was removed? It's been in
Hi ge...@freebsd.org & po...@freebsd.org,
(previously no copy to ports@ just gecko@ Wed, 07 Jan 2015 16:32:31 +0100)
ports/security/nss has been failing to compile a couple of weeks now,
I'm on current ports svn_revision 376454 here,
anyone else noticed ? various other ports depend on it.
.
Hi Olli cc ports@
olli hauer wrote Mon, 29 Dec 2014 21:43:43 +0100 :
> On 2014-12-29 17:19, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
> > olli hauer wrote Sat, 27 Dec 2014 08:25:09 +0100:
> >
> >> On 2014-12-27 03:30, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
> >>> Hi ports@
> >
olli hauer wrote Sat, 27 Dec 2014 08:25:09 +0100:
> On 2014-12-27 03:30, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
> > Hi ports@
> > What URL(s) do I need under
> > https://svnweb.freebsd.org/
> > to get to the Attic for last copy of eg ports/mail/demime ?
> >
> > How is
Hi ports@
What URL(s) do I need under
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/
to get to the Attic for last copy of eg ports/mail/demime ?
How is one supposed to find URLs /svn rev nos ?
(I have a local svn if it helps, but was looking on web)
demime was removed after release date 2012-01 of 9.0.0
https://sv
Hi ports@,
pkg + sqlite was causing trouble with my 11-current src/ & ports/,
The problem is still there in generic FreeBSD & needs fixing I
believe, though I managed to dig my way out here marked at
I had a perl mess, & could neither delete old or install new perl !
I wanted to eithe
Hi, Reference:
> From: Dmitry Sivachenko
> Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 13:06:45 +0300
Dmitry Sivachenko wrote:
>
> > On 18 дек. 2014 г., at 21:16, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
> >
> > Hi de...@freebsd.org Maintainer of ports/converters/recode
> &
Kurt Jaeger wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > with svn_revision 374898
> >
> > distinfo has:
> > SHA256 (recode-3.6.tar.gz) =
> > a9beecec22be42b1096de74d4dfb1051fa9cd252e4ae149d8aa6b5243d729e5e
> > SIZE (recode-3.6.tar.gz) = 1760172
> >
> > Which I cant find, so I used:
>
> Hmm, I tried to fetch it, works f
Hi de...@freebsd.org Maintainer of ports/converters/recode
with svn_revision 374898
distinfo has:
SHA256 (recode-3.6.tar.gz) =
a9beecec22be42b1096de74d4dfb1051fa9cd252e4ae149d8aa6b5243d729e5e
SIZE (recode-3.6.tar.gz) = 1760172
Which I cant find, so I used:
SHA256 (recode-3.6.tar.gz) =
e3e6a4f3
Kevin Oberman wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 8:18 AM, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
>
> > Hi ports@
> > Is there a utility in ports/ to automatically clean disgusting path
> > names in big trees one acquires from Microsoft users ?
> >
> > Trees with in both dir
Hi ports@
Is there a utility in ports/ to automatically clean disgusting path
names in big trees one acquires from Microsoft users ?
Trees with in both directories & filenames, masses of meta characters
such as as ' ` . * | \ & space (& accents & high parity bit national
extensions eg german umlau
Kevin Oberman wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 10:01 AM, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
>
> > Kevin Oberman wrote:
> >
> > > >
> > http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/src/bsd/fixes/FreeBSD/ports/jhs/print/Makefile.local
> > > > & other parallel ../*/Ma
Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/src/bsd/fixes/FreeBSD/ports/jhs/print/Makefile.local
> > & other parallel ../*/Makefile.local , & a few more notes if one scrolls
> > down
> > to "pdf doc viewing notes" in
> > http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/bin/.csh/syntax
> >
> Can't
Guido Falsi wrote:
> On 10/28/14 15:22, Russell L. Carter wrote:
> > Hi Julian,
> >
> > On 10/28/14 07:00, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
> >> Hi h...@freebsd.org & po...@freebsd.org
> >
> >> I went to install print/acror
"Russell L. Carter" wrote:
> Hi Julian,
>
> On 10/28/14 07:00, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
> > Hi h...@freebsd.org & po...@freebsd.org
> >
> > I went to install print/acroread9 for current & found it was not in
> > ports/.
> >
>
> [..
Hi h...@freebsd.org & po...@freebsd.org
I went to install print/acroread9 for current & found it was not in ports/.
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/MOVED?revision=371318&view=markup#l6509
print/acroread9||2014-08-30|Deprecated: many security issues are
reported and Adobe no longer acti
Scot Hetzel wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 11:35 PM, Martin Hanson
> wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > This is a suggestion.
> >
> > Would it not be possible to add a feature to the ports system which
> > enables the user to choose to avoid non Open Source ports?
> >
>
> The feature already exists, see /us
Hi po...@freebsd.org,
For later local builds of releases, & as some distfiles disappear, I do:
uname -r # 9.3-RELEASE
cd /pri/FreeBSD/branches/amd64/-current/ports; setenv PORTSDIR `pwd`
make -j 3 -k fetch BATCH=YES# Or make checksum
Some ports always fail, fetch depen
Reference:
> From: Frederic Culot
> Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 07:06:46 +0200
Hi,
Frederic Culot wrote:
> [1] http://youtu.be/LiFq5D-zmBs
There's no sound ! I thought my sound had failed, but as a test
there Is sound on adjacent unrelated:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DR
Hi freebsd-gn...@freebsd.org
I'm not on freebsd-gnome@ (just on ports@)
I discovered freebsd-gnome@ after the mail below to ports@
bounced on Cc: to author Jean-Yves Lefort
I then found Jean-Yves in FreeBSD GNOME alumni (with no address) on
http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/contact.html
Copy of my o
Hi ports@
textproc/gnome-translate/Makefile MAINTAINER=ports
Anyone know how to set gnome-translate to talk to the proxy ?
(I'm not running gnome as wm but fvwm2,
so rather reluctant to need to dig for some gnome proxy manager)
(my proxy works fine for various clients inc. firefox, epiphany & o
Hi,
Eitan Adler wrote:
> On 3 June 2014 10:11, John Marino wrote:
> > ... it's doubtful most folks unwilling to register are
> > about to make a meaningful report...
>
> This is *not* the reason for registation.
>
> The reason for registation is that we know from experience that having
> a way t
Hi po...@freebsd.org
While making my standard collection of ports on 8.4-RELEASE
(yes I also have 9.2 & 10 on other partitions on some but not all hosts)
I saw numerous examples similar to:
cd /usr/ports/multimedia/ogmrip ; make
===> ogmrip-1.0.0 depends on executable: mencoder - found
===> og
> On 5/10/2014 10:33 AM, Bryan Drewery wrote:
> > You are receiving this mail as it affects FreeBSD ports that you maintain.
> You can see the full list here:
> http://people.freebsd.org/~bapt/notstaged.txt
Hi,
Suggestion: a CGI script with approx.:
cd /pub/FreeBSD/branches/-current/ports
find
Michel Talon wrote:
> So
> how to interact with local.sqlite?
Thanks Michel,
Noted.
Would you please consider running send-pr to submit that for man 5 ?
Prepending
EXAMPLES
Appending
SEE ALSO pkg(8)
There is no src/share/man/man5/local.sqlite.5
in both 10.0-RELEASE & branches/-cur
Michel Talon wrote:
>
> --Apple-Mail=_102D913B-49CA-4129-972A-758AABCAA293
> Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
> boundary="Apple-Mail=_16E0BC5A-FE3D-444D-8437-47827626590A"
>
>
> --Apple-Mail=_16E0BC5A-FE3D-444D-8437-47827626590A
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
> Content-T
Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On 03/02/2014 21:24, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
> >> be beneficial in a very short amount of time. Even if you prefer to
> >> compile from source,
> >=20
> > I use source, rarely if ever use packages, (except pkg_delete
> > to remove old
> be beneficial in a very short amount of time. Even if you prefer to
> compile from source,
I use source, rarely if ever use packages, (except pkg_delete
to remove old broken dependencies). No opinion which scrips are better.
> you will still reap the benefits of the modern
> packaging system.
> The failure is when using FreeBSD-10. With FreeBSD-8 it works great. I
Building ports on 10.0-RELEASE is lots more trouble than 9.2-RELEASE.
10.0-RELEASE built 874, & 9.2-RELEASE built 953 & still making, with
http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/src/bsd/fixes/freebsd/ports/jhs/*/Makefile.local
cd
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ren=E9_Ladan?= wrote:
> 2014-01-30 Julian H. Stacey :
> > =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ren=E9_Ladan?= wrote:
> >> 2014-01-30 Kevin Oberman :
> >> > On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 7:04 PM, Julian H. Stacey
> >> > wrote:
> >> >
> >> >
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ren=E9_Ladan?= wrote:
> 2014-01-30 Kevin Oberman :
> > On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 7:04 PM, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
> >
> >> Hi ports@
> >> I changed Subject:
> >> From:
> >> Re: How to find removed ports in general & math/hex
Hi ports@
I changed Subject:
From:
Re: How to find removed ports in general & math/hexcalc in particular.
To:
ports/math/hexcalc restored from 8.2 now runs on 9.1 & 9.2 & 10.0
+ cc'd FYI Maintainer of x11/xcalc (a scientific not hexadecimal calculator)
> grep hexcalc /usr/ports/MOVED
> ma
Dimitry Andric wrote:
>
> --Apple-Mail=_442D467F-1929-40CE-90B7-0CAD6B1BC540
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> Content-Type: text/plain;
> charset=us-ascii
>
> On 28 Jan 2014, at 16:28, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
> > Hi po...@freebsd.org
> > I&#x
Hi po...@freebsd.org
I'm looking for ports/math/hexcalc or replacement it dissapeared after
8.2-RELEASE, it's not in http://www.freebsd.org/ports/math.html
How should one find:
Why it dissapeared ?
(eg maybe it just lacked a maintainer & I have to re-port it? Or ... ?
What to replace
> On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 02:34:00PM +0100, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
> > Has anyone looked at making a ports wrapper for
> > https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere ?
> >
> > Sources: https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere/development
> >
> > PS on current/por
Has anyone looked at making a ports wrapper for
https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
?
Sources:
https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere/development
PS on current/ports, grep https-everywhere shows nothing,
grep www.eff.org shows just security/switzerland/, port creator
Alexey Dokuchaev added to C
Hi Matthias, cc list
Re your
> > /usr/ports/editors/libreoffice/work/libreoffice-4.0.5.2/bridges/source/cpp_uno/gcc3_linux_intel/callvirtualmethod.cxx:
...
> but it dumps core on start; gdb bt is attached;
>
> matthias
By chance I just built libreoffice & mine starts OK,
src=10.0-BETA1
p
Hi, Reference:
> From: Ajtim
> Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 06:39:15 -0400
Ajtim wrote:
> My system: FreeBSD 10.0-BETA1
> When I built print/lyx I got:
> fatal error: too many errors emitted, stopping now [-ferror-limit=]
Mine on 10.0-BETA1:
6 errors generated.
As ports/print
> I have attached to this email a patch that update the nzbget port to
> release 11.0 and add support for staging.
>
> My work is based on https://wiki.freebsd.org/ports/StageDir but this is
> the first time I modify a port file, so any comments are welcome.
>
> Nicolas
Hi, Use send-pr so your
Hi, Reference:
> From: =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Jo=BEe_Zobec?=
> Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 20:04:30 +0200
> Apart from the maintainer of the port, there would also be "sub"
> maintainerswhich would be those people who helped patch the port into the
> good shape:
>
> # make -C /usr/ports/sec
> From: dirk.me...@dinoex.sub.org (Dirk Meyer)
> Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 21:38:53 +0200
> Hallo Julian H. Stacey,
Hi Dirk,
Thanks for looking, to keep others if any in the loop, I restored
cc: po...@freebsd.org
> > I asked din...@freebsd.org (cc'd) the fo
Hi po...@freebsd.org
I asked din...@freebsd.org (cc'd) the following a month back,
but seen no reply, (maybe he's busy or away, or a spam filter ate it),
so does anyone else have ideas ? Thanks.
The 2 .png I removed from MIME in previous mail & put here for ports@ list:
http://berklix.com/~jhs
"Ronald F. Guilmette" wrote:
>
> The subject line pretty much says it all.
Additional to other ideas so far,
You could also make a chroot, install normal bins from src,
install all your ports, ^D to exit chroot, then do a compare & strip with eg:
cd chroot ;
find . -type f -exec cmpd -d {} / \;
> I see the proposal less about *FreeBSD Ports Teams* and more about
> *Non-FreeBSD* groups. We can only blame ourselves for having
> non-responsive teams, or having *mailing lists* be maintainers.
>
> I see the benefit here more about allowing us to commit PR from any of
> the listed addresses, a
> they have the much more pleasant and personal style;
> I have
> prepared a patch
...
> As a nice extra, it would also on the surface support multiple
> maintainers and make maintainer would still only return the first
> match.
Sounds good.
Cheers,
Julian
--
Julian Stacey, BSD Unix L
Eitan Adler wrote:
> On 27 August 2012 08:40, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
> > On various other older ports, when I couldnt get response in time
> > from MAINTAINER (I don't mean re hylafax), perhaps maintainer on
> > holiday, & I couldn't wait for send-pr tie
Hi,
Reference:
> From: Bryan Drewery
> Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 08:02:15 -0500
> Message-id: <503b6fd7.4060...@shatow.net>
Bryan Drewery wrote:
> On 8/27/2012 7:40 AM, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
> > Brooks Davis wrote:
> >> On Sun, Aug 26, 2012
Brooks Davis wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 02:02:47PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
> > The old Makefile headers, ala:
> >=20
> > # New ports collection makefile for:BIND 9.9.x
> > # Date created: 27 January 2012
> > # Whom: dougb
> > #
> >
Hi Thomas,
> Before committing please read the Ports Subversion Primer,
> http://wiki.freebsd.org/PortsSubversionPrimer. Please feel to add
> missing parts of fix it if something is wrong.
There is no match for "svn" & "subversion" in
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/han
Hi s...@guug.de & po...@freebsd.org
I set Reply-To: "Julian H. Stacey"
To avoid cross posts between:
Responders in German wanting
s...@guug.de
http://lists.guug.de/pipermail/sage/
Responders in English wanting
lini...@freebsd.org wrote:
> As part of an ongoing effort to reduce the number of problems in
> the FreeBSD ports system, we periodically notify users of ports
Hi all,
Reports should be ordered to draw the interest of readers, these aren't yet.
Probably:
Many readers on ports@ often delete thes
> current Mk/bsd.port.mk has
> # DISABLE_SIZE - Do not check the size of a distfile even if the SIZE field
> # has been specified in distinfo. This is useful
> # when using an alternate FETCH_CMD.
PS:
It's a port wide variable, not for individual files. Used here:
Hi joh...@freebsd.org
& cc ports@
A 9.0-RELEASE ports fails on
cd print/texinfo ; make fetch
unless one imports newer values from current, (as I did in my
http://berklix.com/~jhs/src/bsd/fixes/FreeBSD/ports/gen/print/texinfo/distinfo.REL=ALL.diff
)
But periodicaly patching distinfo with
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Originator:Julian H. Stacey
>Organization: http://berklix.com BSD Linux Unix Consultancy, Munich/Muenchen.
>Confidential: no
>Synopsis: Add CONFLICTS_INSTALL=fusefs-ntfs to sysutils/ntfsprogs/Makefile
>Severity: non-critical
&
Doug Barton wrote:
> On 04/09/2012 15:21, Da Rock wrote:
> > To stick my nose where it probably doesn't belong: indeed. This is one
> > area where linux annoys the most for that very reason.
> >
> > Let the user decide and bear the responsibility.
>
> If you want to put up a server with all the e
Hi,
Mark Linimon wrote:
> On 9 April 2012 17:49, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
> >> portmgr's policy is to honor removal requests, no matter the circumstances.
> >
> >
> >
> >
Boris Samorodov wrote:
> On 10.04.2012 16:34, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
>
> > Maintainer of mail/imaptools (Boris) is welcome to add me to a list of
> > witnesses:
>
> Thanks for your help but there is no need at the particular case.
> The port was fixed yesterday and
\
-> \
http://ftp7.freebsd.org/sites/ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/imap_tools_V1.135.tar.gz\
Julian H. Stacey:\
http://berklix.com/~jhs/contact/:\
Tue Apr 10 14:30:17 CEST 2012
Cheers,
Julian
--
Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C
Mikhail Tsatsenko wrote:
> On 08.04.2012 05:25, Mark Linimon wrote:
> > portmgr's policy is to honor removal requests, no matter the circumstances.
> > If someone wants to fork the last free release and host it somewhere, I
> > would be less concerned in that case.
> >
> > mcl
> I'd like to create
> From: Chris Rees
>
> Well, whatever he says, he can't revoke the license of what's already
> been distributed.
>
>
> # Copyright (c) 2008 Rick Sanders #
> #
lain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>
> On 11/25/2011 02:51 PM, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
> > Kaya Saman wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I'm running FreeBSD version 8.0 x64 edition on my server with multiple
> >> jails.
Kaya Saman wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm running FreeBSD version 8.0 x64 edition on my server with multiple
> jails.
< Detail deleted >
> Can anyone help with my issues??
8.0 is too old, November 2009
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/
8.0 Is not supported.
http://www.freebsd.org/security/security.html#
Hi ports@
libtool is not honouring the -static in my /etc/make.conf
grep CFLAGS /etc/make.conf
CFLAGS += -DJHSJHSX=JHSJHSX # Debug
CFLAGS += -static # for /usr/ports/sysutils/ntfsprogs
CFLAGS += -pipe # Not on hosts with little RAM
CFLAGS += -stat
Matthias Andree wrote:
> claim, please fix, until end 2011, in mail/procmail, in collaboration
> with sunpoet@:
Procmail works for me, for a friend, & others on list.
It was & remains irresponsible to try to force satisfied users to fix other
people's reported problems on threat of ports being ot
Hi,
Reference:
> From: Chris Rees
> Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 19:25:01 +0100
> Message-id:
>
Chris Rees wrote:
> On 13 September 2011 18:54, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
> > Hi,
> > Reference:
> >> From: Chris Rees
> >>
Chris Rees wrote:
> On 12 September 2011 22:18, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
> > Matthias Andree wrote:
> >> >> An obscure piece of software is undesirable (and shouldn't be ported in
> >> >> the first place).
> >> >
> >> > Bull
Hi,
Reference:
> From: Chris Rees
> Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:44:37 +0100
> Message-id:
>
Chris Rees wrote:
> On 12 September 2011 22:18, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
> > Matthias Andree wrote:
> >> >> An obscure piece of software is und
> No, I won't tell you which window manager, because if I want to use it
> again I don't want to discover that calling it to the minds of some of
> the ports people caused it to be deleted.
That summarises it. I too avoided mentioning a port for fear of the
immature kids who destroy ports. At lea
> If the author of another package stated that maintenance ceased, that is
> no longer the case. Any why let port users fall into this pit? They
You advocate digging the pit. The hole where the ports was.
Cheers,
Julian
--
Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berkl
Hi,
Reference:
> From: Doug Barton
> Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 01:40:27 -0700
> Message-id: <4e6b227b.5050...@freebsd.org>
Doug Barton wrote:
> The way that the FreeBSD project handles deleted ports is to leave them
> in the CVS repository, where they are easily available to eve
Matthias Andree wrote:
> >> An obscure piece of software is undesirable (and shouldn't be ported in
> >> the first place).
> >
> > Bullshit!
>
> I think that suffices. If the discussion is getting emotional, we
> should stop it.
No. You should stop advocating killing ports, or leave, or be revo
Hi,
> If not, see to backups and/or migration in due time. We can't possibly
> support software that is unsupported by the vendor, but that's what
We already do. Been working just fine for many years. No I wont
tell you where, because I don't trust you & a few other irresponsible
ports crusaders
Matthias Andree wrote:
> Am 08.09.2011 16:15, schrieb Mikhail T.:
>
> > Having a poor port of an obscure
> > piece of software is better, than no port at all.
>
> A poor port is undesirable (and shouldn't be in the tree in the first
> place).
Wrong.
A `poor' port is is still a port else it woul
Matthias Andree wrote:
> Am 08.09.2011 13:52, schrieb Matt Burke:
> > I want machines, tools, to do as *I* say not the other way round, whether
> > it's good for me or not. If I wanted nannying and interference, I'd install
> > Ubuntu.
>
> No, you'd use a managed installation. Nobody stands the
Matthias Andree wrote:
> Am 07.09.2011 17:53, schrieb Mikhail T.:
>
> > The policy -- up until fairly recently -- was to remove ports, that
> > *fail to build* for a while. This made sense -- if the port remains
> > unbuildable long enough, then, certainly, it is no longer in use.
> >
> > The /ne
Hi,
Reference:
> From: Chris Rees
> Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 07:20:27 +0100
> Message-id:
>
Chris Rees wrote:
> --00151774047892f1af04ac680e7e
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>
> On 8 Sep 2011 02:29, "Julian H. Stacey"
Hi,
Reference:
> From: Doug Barton
> Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2011 15:45:51 -0700
> Message-id: <4e67f41f.70...@freebsd.org>
Doug Barton wrote:
> On 9/7/2011 10:02 AM, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
> > Doug Barton wrote:
> >> On 09/07/2011 00:07, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
> >>> D
Matthias Andree wrote:
> So either Kostik, or you, or someone else steps up to maintain the port
> at least to the extent that the known security bugs and reported bugs
> get fixed, or to hell the port goes.
Recent un-professional threats to throw out ports at un-necessarily
short notice, with h
Hi,
Doug Barton wrote:
> On 09/05/2011 02:33, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
> > Chris Rees wrote:
> >> On 4 September 2011 21:32, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Whoops, also missed a CVE -- buffer overflows can cause a DoS.
> >>>> Ex
Mark Linimon wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 10:32:30PM +0200, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
> > It is not responsible to threaten to remove ports without warning
> > between releases for non urgent reasons.
>
> portmgr has no such policy.
>
> Ports get deleted all the tim
Chris Rees wrote:
> On 4 September 2011 21:32, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
> >>
> >> Whoops, also missed a CVE -- buffer overflows can cause a DoS.
> >> Expiration date altered to 1 month accordingly.
> >
> > It is not responsible to threaten to remove port
Hi,
Reference:
> From: Chris Rees
> Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2011 20:21:10 +0100
> Message-id:
>
Chris Rees wrote:
> On 4 September 2011 17:56, Chris Rees wrote:
> > Guys,
> >
> > I've had to deprecate sysutils/cfs -- there's a confirmed issue with
> > failing locks [1] which has
Hi m...@freebsd.org
cc Ruslan & ports@
Ruslan Mahmatkhanov wrote:
> Julian H. Stacey wrote on 03.09.2011 15:38:
> > Hi
> > I see this error (on current too)
> > cd /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/tk84
> > printenv
> > PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/ga
Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
> ... but I am a
> non-native user of the English language).
...
> Correct English is good, but but plain, simple and common English is better.
Yes :-)
(I'm native English, but in Germany).
I also believe shorter sentences work better (in either language).
Easy to forge
Hi
I see this error (on current too)
cd /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/tk84
printenv
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/bin
TERM=xterm
PWD=/usr/ports
uname -a
FreeBSD blak.js.berklix.net 8.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE
#0: Thu May 19 13:49:29
Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 11:49:48AM +0200, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
> > Hi,
> > Reference:
> > > From: "Julian H. Stacey" =20
> > > Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2011 03:07:40 +0200=20
> > > Message-id:
> > No /pub/FreeBSD/branches/-current/ports/ports-mgmt/pkgin .
> > I'm not familiar with pkgin, but nice to see OS co-operation.
>
> So, what do you actually mean by this?
Re-read:
] Microsoft must grin at all us BSD, Linux,
] ... reinventing similar old ports shims for same old 3rd party
Hi,
Reference:
> From: "Julian H. Stacey"
> Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2011 03:07:40 +0200
> Message-id: <201109020107.p8217efj089...@fire.js.berklix.net>
I wrote:
> Microsoft must grin at all us BSD, Linux, maybe Solaris & presumably
> even no
Michal,
Nice analogy !
> Nobody is really steering this ship anymore and it just happily
> rams icebergs along the way, with volunteers occasionally throwing
> buckets of water (and sometimes pieces of furniture) overboard to
> somehow keep it afloat for a while longer.
Furniture like sysutils/di
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