Re: Moving to synth (was: Removing documentation)

2016-02-08 Thread Michel Talon
polishing, update the documentation and go ahead. The fact that synth is written in a relatively obscure language can be a deterrent, but in fact it is very readable by non ada practitioners. -- Michel Talon ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org

Re: [FreeBSD-Ports-Announce] Time to bid farewell to the old pkg_ tools

2014-02-06 Thread Michel Talon
-mime-info|1.2 kdelibs|4.10.5_2 kde-wallpapers|4.10.5 kde-base-artwork|4.10.5 polkit-kde|0.99.1 sqlite .quit niobe% From this it is easy to experiment, and the full sqlite documentation is at: http://www.sqlite.org/lang.html -- Michel Talon ta...@lpthe.jussieu.fr smime.p7s Description

Re: [FreeBSD-Ports-Announce] Time to bid farewell to the old pkg_ tools

2014-02-05 Thread Michel Talon
to come to parity with apt, and is light years ahead of the old system. -- Michel Talon ta...@lpthe.jussieu.fr smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

Re: Any newer latex than latex2e-2003.12_1

2014-02-01 Thread Michel Talon
of use. -- Michel Talon ta...@lpthe.jussieu.fr smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

Graphing installed ports

2013-11-23 Thread Michel Talon
in the diagram that you cannot see anything, rendering the idea quite useless. I hoped one could discover islands with little interconnections between them but in fact mostly everything becomes connected by dependency. -- Michel Talon ta...@lpthe.jussieu.fr smime.p7s Description: S/MIME

Re: [HEADSUP CFT] pkg 1.0rc1 and schedule

2012-07-12 Thread Michel Talon
Doug Barton wrote: What I'm looking for is compelling motivation to make this overwhelming change to the ports infrastructure. Because the present state of the ports system is not a compelling enough reason? My arms are falling … -- Michel Talon ta...@lpthe.jussieu.fr

Re: Port suggestion: REDUCE (math) is available under a BSD license

2012-03-18 Thread Michel Talon
See http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2011-December/071814.html -- Michel Talon ta...@lpthe.jussieu.fr ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Please update lang/cmucl to 20c

2012-02-27 Thread Michel Talon
is useless here. -- Michel Talon ta...@lpthe.jussieu.fr ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: A new and better way to do make readmes?

2012-01-28 Thread Michel Talon
/~talon/show_index.fcgi Already 5 years this was done ... -- Michel Talon ta...@lpthe.jussieu.fr ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-ports-unsubscr

Re: Is there a port to math/reduce?

2011-12-13 Thread Michel Talon
. Now gmake install doesn't work and produces an infinite number of submakes. I don't know how to make a proper install. Hope this may help you to do a port -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: How to resurrect ltrace from Attic?

2011-09-18 Thread Michel Talon
Note that the source code can be obtained from Debian, apparently. Does it work, i don't know. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

Re: Detecting dependencies

2011-09-16 Thread Michel Talon
things in real languages like python, lisp, etc. This argument of being included in base system is so completely bogus ... -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports

Re: testing PKGNG

2011-09-13 Thread Michel Talon
that pkgng shares something to some penguinist system, beware it will be villified by some guardians of the orthodoxy who are quite vocal. Anyways if it is indeed fast it will make a happy difference with the present pkg-* tools. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd

Re: ports-system priorities rant (Re: sysutils/cfs)

2011-09-08 Thread Michel Talon
(i work in a lab which is almost 100% RedHat since many years, and i am not happy at all with that. As much as Ubuntu is despised here, it is light years ahead of the Fedora always beta stuff). -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing

Re: [ANNOUNCE]: clang compiling ports, take 2

2011-09-04 Thread Michel Talon
rdup_entry_c = rdup_entry; which makes sense is (probably automatically) replaced by the line rdup_entry = rdup_entry; which is superfluous. gcc doesn't bark at that while clang does. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: suggestion for pkgdb from ports-mgmt/portupgrade: add more explanation

2011-09-02 Thread Michel Talon
Robert Huff said: Michel TALON writes: Finally the file UPDATING should be forcefully removed from the system While I support all reasonable efforts to get automation to always Do The Right Thing(tm), my reaction to this is: absolutely not. Until you can show

Re: suggestion for pkgdb from ports-mgmt/portupgrade: add more explanation

2011-09-01 Thread Michel TALON
means which don't prevent automatisation (for example upping the revision levels of all appropriate ports, even if they are very numerous). At the end of the day, portupgrade is so awfully slow that i think moving away from ruby could also help in this respect. -- Michel TALON

Re: Ports system quality

2011-08-30 Thread Michel Talon
in the laptops i tried? -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: Ports system quality

2011-08-29 Thread Michel Talon
than the other ... -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

ruby-rbtree

2011-08-23 Thread Michel Talon
It appears ruby-rbtree is marked deprecated because the master site has disappeared. In fact it has moved here: http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/67118/rbtree-0.3.0.tar.gz -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: FreeBSD unmaintained ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2011-08-21 Thread Michel Talon
= 500509 ? 5*6 %1 = 30 ? In other words everything works completely out of the box, without any intervention. After that people will say that the freebsd ports are the best thing since sliced bread! -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org

Re: FreeBSD unmaintained ports which are currently scheduled for deletion

2011-08-21 Thread Michel Talon
tex2mail.1 and the compressed versions. Good luck -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: UPDATING 20110730

2011-08-01 Thread Michel Talon
not convinced that continually forking tons of programs can be very fast, and it would be nice to be able to exploit parallelism on modern multiproc machines. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: UPDATING 20110730

2011-08-01 Thread Michel Talon
Le Monday 01 August 2011, Doug wrote: A lot of people say that, but I'll stack it up against just about any interpreted language. Some of my routines are actually faster than the equivalents in pkg_info (which is why I use them). Yes, i have seen that portmaster is quite fast. I was

Re: UPDATING 20110730

2011-08-01 Thread Michel Talon
, in particular the fact that the base system has the Berkeley database, or that using the filesystem as a poor man's database was a better idea. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: UPDATING 20110730

2011-08-01 Thread Michel Talon
On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 09:39:05AM -0700, Jos Backus wrote: On Aug 1, 2011 7:10 AM, Michel Talon ta...@lpthe.jussieu.fr wrote: [snip] This being said if an upgrade tool needs to compute (partially) the INDEX, most of the time is spent in running make -V variables in each port, because

Re: Time to mark portupgrade deprecated?

2011-07-30 Thread Michel Talon
. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: nscd vs. ports that add user/group (Was: Time to mark portupgrade deprecated?)

2011-07-30 Thread Michel Talon
2); return l; } %% Many thanks for the suggestion. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: Time to mark portupgrade deprecated?

2011-07-26 Thread Michel Talon
in that direction is OpenBSD. From what i hear, people are happy with the management of ports in OpenBSD, while most of people i hear are very unhappy with FreeBSD ports. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Time to mark portupgrade deprecated?

2011-07-26 Thread Michel Talon
Le mardi 26 juillet 2011 12:38:35, vous avez écrit : Sure, why not kill one of the biggest strengths FreeBSD is known for while we're at it... Or most obvious weakness ... The biggest strength was a good kernel, better than Linux, but this was years ago. Two questions: Who will

Re: Why so many versions of the port science/hdf?

2011-05-10 Thread Michel Talon
-4.1.1 netcdf-4.1.1 paraview-3.8.1 py27-h5py-1.2.1_1 py27-netCDF4-0.9.3 hdf-szip-2.1_1 It is easy to get from the same INDEX the required hdf port. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Dropping maintainership of my ports

2011-04-27 Thread Michel Talon
quicklisp http://www.quicklisp.org/beta/ and after that hundreds of applications can be installed automatically in the same way as cpan does for perl modules. Instead there are a select few lisp applications in the ports, which have a clisp and a sbcl slave port. This is strange. -- Michel TALON

Re: [ECFT] pkgng 0.1-alpha1: a replacement for pkg_install

2011-03-26 Thread Michel Talon
are on their own. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: [ECFT] pkgng 0.1-alpha1: a replacement for pkg_install

2011-03-25 Thread Michel Talon
(package_id, origin) So this seems fine. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: [ECFT] pkgng 0.1-alpha1: a replacement for pkg_install

2011-03-25 Thread Michel Talon
solutions. I have just taken a look at the table packages, it seems that it does not contain dependency information, but you can discover it through analyze_elf, where do you store it? This project is the thing i had dreamed about. -- Michel TALON

Re: Deprecation campaign

2011-03-17 Thread Michel Talon
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 07:33:01AM +0300, Ruslan Mahmatkhanov wrote: 17.03.2011 02:33, Michel Talon ??: Hello, i noted that ucpp is deprecated because it cannot be fetched from original site. This is an alternate c preprocessor supposed to be better than the gnu one, written

Re: Deprecation campaign

2011-03-16 Thread Michel Talon
: http://code.google.com/p/ucpp/ I hope you may reconsider your decision. With my best regards (*) i think he now runs a crypto firm in the Boston area. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: deprecated ports

2011-03-16 Thread Michel Talon
/gimp.shtml and which is in the ports. So this deprecation is fine. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: Superfluous dependencies

2011-03-12 Thread Michel Talon
(maple, etc.) always type their code in a window using a standard editor, and copy-paste it in another window running maple, maxima, etc. Using the GUI toolkits is almost always a considerable loss of time. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org

Re: FreeBSD needs fresh Blood!

2011-03-08 Thread Michel Talon
comments. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: Find a corrupt port

2011-02-27 Thread Michel Talon
the right thing and/or notify you about ports that you need to reinstall. Or if you like something more automated, faster, and giving more information, you can run: http://www.lpthe.jussieu.fr/~talon/check_pkg.py -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-ports

Re: Debian GNU/kFreeBSD

2011-02-12 Thread Michel Talon
to a good userland, depending on the care offered by the Debian people to this project. I don't think that grafting apt on the ports system would work as well as in Debian. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: i keep *trying* to move from portupgrade to portmaster

2010-08-06 Thread Michel Talon
edited, which is the precious stuff, but it preserves a lot of useless stuff. The following python script by Cyrille Szymanski may be more useful: http://www.lpthe.jussieu.fr/~talon/pkg_save.py It keeps the config files and the shared libraries. -- Michel TALON

Re: Portmaster with package support ready for beta testing

2009-11-11 Thread Michel Talon
is in the same spirit as my own: http://www.lpthe.jussieu.fr/~talon/pkgupgrade except written in shell, which is quite a feat! Since python is easier to manage, pkgupgrade follows MOVED and tries to be fast. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-ports

Re: Portmaster with package support ready for beta testing

2009-11-09 Thread Michel Talon
the configuration of a large number of ports, you cannot expect a packages-based upgrade to work. In this case the only reasonable way is to upgrade from source. Miroslav Lachman -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Portmaster with package support ready for beta testing

2009-11-08 Thread Michel Talon
computation by doing things on its own. In principle you have a global view of the problem, which is better than the local view embedded in each package. Hence forcing pkg_add is the only sane way. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Lighttpd: (mod_fastcgi.c.1742) connect failed

2009-09-05 Thread Michel Talon
for example django if you want to understand fastcgi. By the way the aim is to display the FreeBSD ports trough a fastcgi responder. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports

Re: [HEADUP] FreeBSD Gecko's TODO and plan for future

2009-08-25 Thread Michel Talon
with a partial order given by dependency. There is always such a total order, but it is not unique. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: [Call For Testing] VirtualBox for FreeBSD! take2

2009-05-19 Thread Michel Talon
Martin Wilke wrote: Next run, We updated the port to 2.2.2r19801. Works for me fine on a FreeBSD-7.1 machine running i386. I am running just now a FreeBSD-8 snapshot. But the NetBSD-5 iso crashed the virtual machine. Nice work Thanks. -- Michel TALON

Re: mtools vs X11 (Re: FreeBSD Port: syslinux-3.72)

2009-03-20 Thread Michel Talon
wise decisions. If a little judgement was applied in such cases, it would enhance greatly the usefulness of the ports system. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports

Re: mtools vs X11 (Re: FreeBSD Port: syslinux-3.72)

2009-03-20 Thread Michel Talon
. And the end user who uses prepackaged packages will get mtools with a totally useless GUI. I have hard time beleiving you are not trolling with such theories. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: installed ports dependency tree?

2009-02-05 Thread Michel Talon
does it, an so does my pkgupgrade. Using such an order (it is not unique) one can guarantee that (barring bugs in the ports system) one can remove packages without breaking other packages or install without doing multiple rebuilds. -- Michel TALON

Re: Scilab 5.0

2009-01-18 Thread Michel Talon
as the new Maple Java interface, maybe it is wise to keep the old Scilab 4.x in the ports tree ... -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Scilab 5.0

2009-01-18 Thread Michel Talon
useful. Otherwise the main window seems fine. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: numerous gcc installations

2009-01-11 Thread Michel Talon
!!!) hence breaks the build for matplotlib. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

DragonFlyBSD mail agent

2009-01-08 Thread Michel Talon
, and it is easy to figure out how to use it. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: DragonFlyBSD mail agent

2009-01-08 Thread Michel Talon
in the complexity of the big ones. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: DragonFlyBSD mail agent

2009-01-08 Thread Michel Talon
Le jeudi 08 janvier 2009, vous avez écrit : On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 05:48:10PM +0100, Michel Talon wrote: This mail agent doesn't offer anything compelling compared to sendmail, only it is much smaller and presumably more secure. I have previously seen it advocated for base

Re: Latex port

2008-12-26 Thread Michel Talon
/base/size10.clo)) (./toto.aux) [1] (./toto.aux) ) Output written on toto.dvi (1 page, 624 bytes). Transcript written on toto.log. niobe% ls /var/db/pkg|grep teTeX teTeX-3.0_1/ teTeX-base-3.0_6/ teTeX-texmf-3.0_3/ -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-ports

Re: TeXLive

2008-12-24 Thread Michel Talon
adds dependencies like cm-super which are perfectly non necessary, please don't impose on us abominations like TeXLive, leave that optional. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: print/cm-super size mismatch

2008-12-16 Thread Michel Talon
/ -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: multimedia/xvid

2008-10-11 Thread Michel Talon
is minimal. I have checked on the xvid site that there is no more recent version. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: multimedia/xvid

2008-10-11 Thread Michel Talon
perfectly parallelizes the computations on the 128 bits registers. This is a good illustration of the fact that compilers are not always as smart as people say, and assembly code can crush C code. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org

Re: Found CONFLICTS: ...

2008-10-06 Thread Michel Talon
On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 02:17:43AM +0400, Boris Samorodov wrote: Michel Talon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think that CONFLICTS is a cure with worse effects than the disease. Well, then you may cut off this cure by defining DISABLE_CONFLICTS. This is indeed the solution i came

Re: Found CONFLICTS: ...

2008-10-05 Thread Michel Talon
Jan Henrik Sylvester wrote: Should all CONFLICTS be documented? I think CONFLICTS should be treated by ignoring them completely. They cause no end of troubles in Debian, for very little if any usefulness. What is the problem if you install texi2dvi one way or another? -- Michel TALON

Re: Found CONFLICTS: ...

2008-10-05 Thread Michel Talon
On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 04:24:46PM -0500, Scot Hetzel wrote: On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 3:25 PM, Michel Talon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jan Henrik Sylvester wrote: Should all CONFLICTS be documented? I think CONFLICTS should be treated by ignoring them completely. They cause no end

Re: My interactive version of pkg_add - finished!

2008-10-04 Thread Michel Talon
little is needed. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: My interactive version of pkg_add

2008-10-02 Thread Michel Talon
. I am quite sure that one of the keys of Marcin's success is having limited his aims. Similarly the excellent portmaster tool for upgrading owes its success to strict limitation to upgrade from source, using the available preexisting pkg_* tools - plus a lot of polishing. -- Michel TALON

Re: My interactive version of pkg_add

2008-09-27 Thread Michel Talon
packages. I hope it is reliable. Then i suggest to download it and work from that. Best regards -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Exploring the FreeBSD ports tree

2008-09-09 Thread Michel Talon
this socket. To browse the ports tree, just point the browser at /showindex/ on the given server. A reasonable number of queries per second is achievable through this setup. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: firefox 3 causing xorg to suck up all available CPU

2008-08-01 Thread Michel Talon
, but it was completely reproducible on these web pages. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Call for comments - pkg_trans

2008-07-31 Thread Michel Talon
if the basic tools (pkg_add, etc.) work correctly by themselves, since portupgrade mainly calls these tools. But of course, injecting the above state information in pkgdb.db would perhaps be useful. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Call for comments - pkg_trans

2008-07-31 Thread Michel Talon
and detailed data basis of the operations, of course. By the way, on the course of time, ports belonging on a transaction are upgraded, may change name (according to the MOVED file) so one also have to continually update this information in the data basis. -- Michel TALON

Upgrading through packages: an experience.

2008-07-12 Thread Michel Talon
comparable to what one may expect under Linux. Compiling a single KDE port took longer that the whole upgrade procedure except the compilation. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports

Re: Upgrading through packages: an experience.

2008-07-12 Thread Michel Talon
On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 04:35:29PM +0200, Kris Kennaway wrote: Michel Talon wrote: Hello, Since KDE recently appeared in the Latest prebuilt packages Well, it's always been there, except when it could not be built. Well it was not here ten days ago, i think, when it was discussed

Re: [patch] pkg_delete(1) speedup

2008-03-31 Thread Michel Talon
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Re: ports system woes

2008-03-27 Thread Michel Talon
- because comparing to what the most recent versions of bdb in the ports can do has a different bearing on the question. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe

Re: ports system woes

2008-03-26 Thread Michel Talon
afficionados who are convinced that their toy is the best in the world. Let me recall that *one* person has completely rewritten the ports system for OpenBSD (Marc Espie), including the pkg* tools and all the Makefile scripts, and now it works. -- Michel TALON

Re: ports system woes

2008-03-26 Thread Michel Talon
, including myself, only to be scorned by people of your sort. I have yet to see people like you contributing any testing or discussion when code is offered, all you are good for is parrotting Code speaks louder than mere words. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd

Re: Utility for safe updating of ports in base system

2008-03-20 Thread Michel Talon
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 01:05:27AM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: On Thu, 20 Mar 2008, Michel Talon wrote: Doug Barton wrote: i would venture to say that such an utility should be able to upgrade things based of *binary* packages, and consequently that portmaster is not a suitable candidate

Re: Utility for safe updating of ports in base system

2008-03-20 Thread Michel Talon
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 05:59:28PM +0800, Denise H. G. wrote: Michel Talon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Actually I don't think a batch download and install process would help much, especially for a freshly installed system because it might be a huge download job and much waiting time if one

Re: Utility for safe updating of ports in base system

2008-03-20 Thread Michel Talon
not enough information) for each package. So in principle one could do similar things as Debian does. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Utility for safe updating of ports in base system

2008-03-20 Thread Michel Talon
of many distributions, including Free and NetBSD, with incredible bandwith. See ftp://ftp.free.fr/mirrors I can download a DVD from my office at 100Mb/s from here at any time. I would venture to say that the problem you mention is really a non problem. -- Michel TALON

Re: Utility for safe updating of ports in base system

2008-03-19 Thread Michel Talon
in the middle, like it is the case with all present standard FreeBSD upgraders. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: portupgrade installing unexpected dependencies

2008-02-13 Thread Michel Talon
minutes. Robert Huff Last time i have built the INDEX on a core 2 duo machine, it took less than 10 minutes, in fact 8 minutes if i remember well, which is ways less than the numbers you are claiming. -- Michel TALON

Re: TeTeX and TeXLive

2007-12-14 Thread Michel Talon
be happier with a distribution much lighter than TeTeX, i think the only progress of any interest in all that stuff is pdftex. If only i could put Latex2e in the trash can ... -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: duration of the ports freeze

2007-12-01 Thread Michel Talon
people are happy with the source based system, and all the problems going with such a choice. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: Proposal for another category in INDEX: common_deps

2007-07-21 Thread Michel Talon
individual interest. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Proposal for another category in INDEX: common_deps

2007-07-20 Thread Michel Talon
. The Debian people have a simpler situation with apt-get, they have only one sort of dependency to consider, the equivalent of RUN_DEPENDS. Hence they can build a reliable sorted graph of dependencies. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Keeping track of automatically installed dependency-only ports

2007-07-07 Thread Michel Talon
accordingly, the presence of unwanted and uncleaned ports may be not only a small inconvenience, but may have bad consequences. So i think it should be wise to introduce a database as indicated above, in the same way it has been introduced in aptitude as an enhancement of apt-get. -- Michel TALON

Re: Keeping track of automatically installed dependency-only ports

2007-07-07 Thread Michel Talon
have opinions about this ... Sure this is a point of interest, the more opinions, the better. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: Finding slowdowns in pkg_install

2007-07-06 Thread Michel Talon
leaving a mess if something goes astray like portupgrade does. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Uggg!

2007-06-01 Thread Michel Talon
. Moral of the story, as other people are saying, keeping a backup of the pkgdb should be necessary before taking unreliable action. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports

Re: Looking for speed increases in make index

2007-05-27 Thread Michel Talon
possible means would be very beneficial. By the way an alternative system would be to use something other than make to do the job. This is what the Gentoo people are doing, using first a python based system, and now a C++ one (paludis). Here also i don't have any idea if it is faster. -- Michel

Re: Specs for saving old shared libs

2007-05-18 Thread Michel Talon
don't want to rely on this mechanism, you keep your copy and use it only in case some library is really missing and you don't know how to solve the problem in another way. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Problems running pkgdb -fF

2007-03-19 Thread Michel Talon
it on /var/db/pkg. Of course this is the sort of thing absolutely impossible to characterize. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

pkgupgrade

2007-02-10 Thread Michel Talon
directly in the repository. Hoping that this will help maintaining FreeBSD boxes without spending hours doing it. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send

pkgupgrade

2007-01-31 Thread Michel Talon
, it is, like portupgrade, somewhat complex, and bugs can easily creep in short as well as complex programs. I will be very happy if i get feedback on bugs or misbehaviors, and so will Cyrille. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http

Dependency question

2007-01-12 Thread Michel Talon
. In my case i have around 600 installed ports, it discovers around 100 dependencies, and the procedure takes around 1mn25 (on a P4, 3Ghz). The result can be found in the files ErrorLog and INDEX. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing

Server to browse ports tree.

2006-12-14 Thread Michel Talon
. -- Michel TALON ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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