Baptiste Daroussin b...@freebsd.org wrote:
On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 12:22:28AM +0200, Florent Peterschmitt
wrote:
2. Why do we have to put WITH_NEW_XORG in /etc/make.conf to
get it ? Why not put this var in a port configuration file
which will be read by all ports needing this var ?
Michael Scheidell scheid...@freebsd.org wrote:
Two unmaintained ports, nothing depends on them, and upstream has
not updated source since 2004, ftp server unresponsive.
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/misc/gpt31/Makefile
(gpt32: misc/gpt also unmaintained since 2005.
Kevin Oberman kob6...@gmail.com wrote:
While I think makefile-options is the way to go, I should also
point out that for the specific case of emacs and X11, it is
not used due to the very large differences. Other variants
are handled via options, but there are separate emacs and
emacs-nox11
Doug Barton do...@freebsd.org wrote:
On 02/08/2012 02:12, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
lini...@freebsd.org wrote:
portname: graphics/vrml2pov
description:Convert VRML files to POVRay source
maintainer: po...@freebsd.org
status: BROKEN
deprecated
lini...@freebsd.org wrote:
portname: graphics/vrml2pov
description:Convert VRML files to POVRay source
maintainer: po...@freebsd.org
status: BROKEN
deprecated because: unfetchable
This seems to be a ports-infrastructure problem, rather than a
problem in
Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote:
Finally, all this testing the CPU architecture and the OS version
makes no sense at all for ports that don't install any compiled
binaries, such as shell scripts.
Unless said script runs something CPU- or OSversion-specific, e.g.
to
Mark Linimon lini...@lonesome.com wrote:
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 09:09:10PM +, Chris Rees wrote:
I worry about the ethics of 'stealing' Fedora's bandwidth with
other people's ports; we should only be using their mirrors if
it's explicitly developed by Fedora.
Correct. dougb has
Jason Helfman j...@freebsd.org wrote:
I was looking at update bsd.sites.mk, and found that
MASTER_SITE_FEDORA_LINUX is only used in one port.
Any objection to moving this site-index into x11-themes/bluecurve-themes,
and removing from bsd.sites.mk?
There is also a referrence to it in
Chris Rees cr...@freebsd.org wrote:
On 11 January 2012 18:44, Doug Barton do...@freebsd.org wrote:
On 1/11/2012 10:41 AM, Mark Felder wrote:
perhaps we should see if we can get the mysql maintainer(s) to
fix the mysql rc script so it doesn't exit until the service is
fully fired up and
lini...@freebsd.org wrote:
portname: misc/gtkfind
description:The program to use to have to remember all the
options to find(1)
maintainer: po...@freebsd.org
deprecated because: No more public distfiles, no more upstream
expiration date:
Kevin Oberman kob6...@gmail.com wrote:
I see the following errors during the configure stage:
=== Configuring for x264-0.119.2113
[[: not found
That sure looks as if the configure script needs to be run with bash.
files/patch-configure does this:
-#!/bin/bash
+#!/bin/sh
which presumes
lini...@freebsd.org wrote:
portname: misc/gtkfind
description:The program to use to have to remember all the options
to find(1)
maintainer: po...@freebsd.org
deprecated because: No more public distfiles, no more upstream
Looking at the Makefile,
Chris Rees cr...@freebsd.org wrote:
portname: misc/gtkfind
...
Looking at the Makefile, it appears that this port does not
claim to have a MASTER_SITES other than MASTER_SITE_BACKUP, i.e.
the FreeBSD servers. IOW, it looks as if we _are_ the upstream.
Hm. Are you interested in using
Pav Lucistnik p...@freebsd.org wrote:
The build jails are configured to have only IPv4 address on lo0,
but the host have both IPv4 and IPv6 configured on its lo0.
Even disregarding RFC3513, is an IPv6-enabled kernel without an IPv6
address on lo0 a realistic configuration for a real FreeBSD
lini...@freebsd.org wrote:
portname: net-mgmt/portmon
deprecated because: No more public distfiles
I was able to fetch it earlier today:
$ ( cd /usr/ports/net-mgmt/portmon make fetch-recursive )
=== Fetching all distfiles for portmon-2.0 and dependencies
=== Vulnerability check
Eitan Adler li...@eitanadler.com wrote:
2011/9/27 O. Hartmann ohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de:
Now I understand why some OS vendors have choosen the latin
10 'X' for their tenth version of their operating system ...
FreeBSD XP anyone?
Are you sure there's a sufficient window of opportunity?
Ade Lovett a...@freebsd.org wrote:
The undeniable fact is that configure scripts in general have
chosen to do things a certain way. Unfortunately for us (us
being FreeBSD), we have now broken these conceptions by moving
to a dual-digit major release.
I don't suppose
REVISION=A.1
i.e.
RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Sun, 18 Sep 2011 05:38:00 + (GMT)
Thomas Mueller wrote:
First case I think of is the misc/freebsd-doc-* ports which want
links1, which would be redundant if I already have lynx installed
... I don't really like links1 ...
links1 isn't simply
Stephen Montgomery-Smith step...@missouri.edu wrote:
It would never have occurred to me that echo */*/Makefile*
works when grep xxx */*/Makefile*. Is that because echo
is a builtin command in csh (which is what I use)?
I don't know, but I can think of no better explanation.
I notice
Lev Serebryakov l...@freebsd.org wrote:
... gzip, for example, has timestamp field in header.
Try this locally, without any [D]VCS:
% mkdir test echo one test/one.txt echo two test/two.txt
% tar czf test1.tar.gz test sleep 5 tar czf test2.tar.gz test
% md5 test1.tar.gz test2.tar.gz
Baptiste Daroussin b...@freebsd.org wrote:
The main problem with that is: we have no way to keep a valid sum
of the distfiles if it is autogenerated (in particular with github)
and this sum is really important.
No question about the importance of the checksum, to prevent trojans
and other
Matthias Andree matthias.and...@gmx.de wrote:
Am 09.09.2011 11:09, schrieb Conrad J. Sabatier:
You fail to take into account the case where a port may need to
be reinstalled. An extraordinary effort is required if the port
no longer exists in the ports tree.
If a port may need to be
Matthias Andree matthias.and...@gmx.de wrote:
Am 10.09.2011 16:08, schrieb per...@pluto.rain.com:
Last I knew, if port X uses services provided by port Y and port
Y changes, port X often needs to be rebuilt and reinstalled even
though nothing in port X has changed. AFAIK this has nothing
Matthew D. Fuller fulle...@over-yonder.net wrote:
On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 07:03:41AM -0700 I heard the voice of
per...@pluto.rain.com, and lo! it spake thus:
If I am understanding correctly, you seem to be saying that two
distfiles autogenerated from the _same_ tag etc. in the _same_
Doug Barton do...@freebsd.org wrote:
On 09/07/2011 00:07, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
Doug Barton do...@freebsd.org wrote:
Better to deprecate such non urgent ports, wait a while
after next release is rolled, to give release users a warning
some time to volunteer ...
That's an
Peter Jeremy peterjer...@acm.org wrote:
On 2011-Sep-07 10:02:42 -0700, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
Reread the first paragraph. Provided the port is still in the
tree, when they try to build it the ports mechanism reports the
FORBIDDEN/BROKEN/whatever which describes the problem, and the
Yar Tikhiy yar.tik...@gmail.com wrote:
By the way, the Debian folks invested certain effort in
keeping cfs up to date. Their git repo is still available
at http://smarden.org/git/cfs.git/ . In particular, the
DoS fix can be easily obtained from the repo and placed
under files/ in the port.
Doug Barton do...@freebsd.org wrote:
Better to deprecate such non urgent ports, wait a while
after next release is rolled, to give release users a warning
some time to volunteer ...
That's an interesting idea, but incredibly unlikely to happen.
It _certainly_ won't happen if
Doug Barton do...@freebsd.org wrote:
On 09/05/2011 02:33, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
It is not responsible to threaten to remove ports without
warning between releases for non urgent reasons.
We understand that this is your perspective, however the community
in general has a different idea.
Chris Rees utis...@gmail.com wrote:
I've had to deprecate sysutils/cfs ...
s/sysutils/security
(at least in my instance of the ports tree).
Whoops, also missed a CVE -- buffer overflows can cause a DoS.
Er, am I the only one who does not recognize what CVE stands for?
BTW thanks for the
Matthias Andree matthias.and...@gmx.de wrote:
I agree, but I can think of another valid exception. System with
Hamming correction on the memory, gets a single bit (correctable)
error. Need to rewrite the memory contents to reset all the parity
bits!
That's a matter of the EDAC stuff, not
Doug Barton do...@freebsd.org wrote:
On 09/02/2011 14:58, Lars Eighner wrote:
The main thing here, of course, is that ports uses dependency
in the exact opposite of its normal English sense (just as
twitter uses following in the exact opposite of its normal
English sense).
In normal
Kurt Jaeger li...@opsec.eu wrote:
Probably just this: What about trying to port pkgin for FreeBSD,
so that pkgin can also be used on FreeBSD ?
Volunteers?
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Chris Rees utis...@gmail.com wrote:
Committed. Thanks!
Oops. There was another file (not needing testing, since the
changes are only in the comments) that I was also going to include
in a final patch after the functional changes got whatever testing
they were going to get :)
The attached also
Matthias Andree mand...@freebsd.org wrote:
I understand that keeping unchanging software can sometimes be
necessary, if you're working around its quirks.
At the same time I'd like to discourage new installations of dead
software so that it disappears over time, rather than haunt fresh
Forwarding to ports@, which seems more likely to yield an answer to
this particular inquiry than questions@
Please keep the OP, who is probably not subscribed to ports@, in the
Cc: list.
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 13:52:12 +0100
When the specified or calculated rate exceeds 64KB/sec, the
required sleep interval between 64KB chunks is less than one
second. Since diskcheckd calculates the interval in whole seconds
-- because it calls sleep() rather than usleep() or nanosleep()
-- an interval of less than one second is
Is it logging to syslog?
I haven't seen anything in /var/log/messages or on ttyv0 ...
It does log errors to syslog. The informational message when
reaching the end of the disk is discarded with default syslog.conf,
but presumably would be logged if syslog were so configured.
Also, would
Chris Rees utis...@gmail.com wrote:
Is it logging to syslog?
I haven't seen anything in /var/log/messages or on ttyv0, but
this may be a matter of configuration rather than a problem with
diskcheckd.
* I'm running diskcheckd as a normal user, not as root. (The user
is in the operator group
Chris Rees utis...@gmail.com wrote:
On 18 Aug 2011 08:15, Matthias Andree mand...@freebsd.org wrote:
Am 18.08.2011 08:20, schrieb Chris Rees:
On 18 August 2011 09:03, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
Chris Rees utis...@gmail.com wrote:
We don't want to provide broken software.
Chris Rees utis...@gmail.com wrote:
We don't want to provide broken software.
Mark Linimon lini...@lonesome.com wrote:
... it's obsolete, broken, junk ...
Unless there is more to this than is reported in those two PRs,
I'd call it a considerable exaggeration to describe diskcheckd
as broken.
Baptiste Daroussin b...@freebsd.org wrote:
For the third time, I'm running a deprecation campaign to
remove old, unmaintain and/or problematic stuff from the
ports tree (ports@)
As usual I may be wrong there maybe some false positive,
I sharpened a bit my analysis scripts so there should be
Andriy Gapon a...@freebsd.org wrote:
If for X ports all the relevant data under /var/db/pkg fits into
fs cache, then the performance may be blazing, but once you exceed
the cache size the performance might become totally different.
and/or the poorly-performing system may have enough less
Max Brazhnikov m...@issp.ac.ru wrote:
The KDE FreeBSD team has officially dropped support for Qt3/KDE3
ports. We are not going to remove them in the near future, so
you can continue to use them. But we strongly recommend you to
consider alternative solutions.
Can you recommend an
Starting with a single directory containing a few hundred packages
(.tbz files), how would I go about converting it into the sort of
repository which portmaster could use as its --local-packagedir?
I suppose the first step would be something along the lines of
mkdir .all
mv *.tbz .all
mv
Chris Rees utis...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
On my drive to clear pkg-install scripts manually creating users
etc I came across devel/fossology which is marked BROKEN.
I've made a patch for the USERS= problem at [1], but I'm going
to recommend deprecating the port unless someone can step up
Suppose I start to install some packages using pkg_add -K -r and
something goes wrong partway through. When trying again, AFAICT
there is no way to tell pkg_add to first look for any package that
it needs (e.g. dependencies) in the local repository created by the
previous run's -K switch, but
Eitan Adler li...@eitanadler.com wrote:
I've been told that we shouldn't be looking for reasons
to save any unmaintained port,
What you have been told is no-one steps up to (a) fix the
problem, (b) take maintainership and (c) _continue_ with
maintainership ...
If you are stepping up to
Doug Barton do...@freebsd.org wrote:
On 03/26/2011 10:00, Matthew Seaman wrote:
pkg_version -vIL= | awk '/^p5-/ { print $1 }' | xargs portmaster
That's a good suggestion, but if you want to use that technique, better
would be: portmaster `pkg_version -vIL= | awk '/^p5-/ { print $1 }'` ...
Doug Barton do...@freebsd.org wrote:
This would be a good time to include ports-mgmt/pkg_search into
the base system...
It would be a better idea to put the pkg_* tools IN the ports tree
where they belong. :)
Wouldn't this lead to a chicken-egg problem for those who use
packages? How
Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com wrote:
FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT #0: Sat Oct 23 08:15:53 EDT 2010 amd64
xorg-7.5.1
fvwm-2.5.31
...
Since the upgrade to xorg-7.5.1, I have had issues with
... focus, for lack of a better diagnosis.
Before, as I move the 3x3 desktop focus followed the
Matthias Andree mand...@freebsd.org wrote:
If someone is willing to update the port: I have an original
tarball 'gpart-0.1h.tar.gz'. It would need a new home ;-)
Is that tarball different from what's on sunsite and currently
fetched by the port?
One would hope not :) and sunsite makes at
Charlie Kester corky1...@comcast.net wrote:
A few minutes ago, I was answering a post on the forums, in which
a user expressed surprise (and outrage) that the phpmyadmin port
was installing libX11 and similar things on his server. By
installing it myself and then using pkg_tree -v to examine
Doug Barton do...@freebsd.org wrote:
... what is really needed is for the OPTIONS framework to take
environmental preferences into account when dealing with defaults
... if WITHOUT_X11 is defined in make.conf, then the defaults for
OPTIONS that are related to requiring X11 stuff should be off
Anoop K kmtan...@gmail.com wrote:
I would like to make a port request for
Radiance http://radsite.lbl.gov/radiance/ .
After a brief look at the site (but not the code), I would _guess_
this to be a very easy port. It is said to be a Unix program, and
because it was written during the
Baptiste Daroussin b...@freebsd.org wrote:
your built is failing because you ran it twice.
make can't be run twice you should make clean before
Doesn't this point to a bug in the Makefile, dependencies, etc?
Last I knew the whole point of make was to build what needs to
be built, skipping any
Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote:
Generally, avoid the models that don't speak PCL or PostScript.
By and large, this goes for printers in general unless your goal
is to _work on supporting_ the printer rather than _using_ it.
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darc...@gmail.com (Denise H. G.) wrote:
All breakdowns occur on the plumber's day off.
... except those involving the plumber's truck, which tend to occur
on the day _after_ the scheduled day off, resulting in an additional
day off :)
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Eygene Ryabinkin r...@freebsd.org wrote:
And please, please, please, try to put your shar(1) archive
somewhere to the Web and add the link to the PR: mail over
gnats if not uuencoded properly makes attachments with partial
quoted-printable stuff left ...
Sounds as if Sec. 3.6 of the Porter's
Ion-Mihai Tetcu ite...@freebsd.org wrote:
It would be nice to support xz(1) compression for large selective
packages like firefox or openoffice as those will never run on
smaller systems.
Trouble is it ain't no way (CPU, space, banhdwidth on our side and
space,bandwidth on our mirrors
Doug Barton do...@freebsd.org wrote:
So does anyone have compiz working with gnome on FreeBSD?
I can't help with that directly, but have a related suggestion:
Based on what I've been reading on wine-users, it seems that wine
and compiz do not get along well together. When you get compiz
Marin Atanasov Nikolov dna...@gmail.com wrote:
in order to install the program, you need to:
# git clone git://git.unix-heaven.org/public/pkg_add_it
...
Surely, there's room for improvement, but that's a start.. :)
Dunno about anyone else, but from my standpoint it would be a _big_
Marin Atanasov Nikolov dna...@gmail.com wrote:
If you do not have git installed, you could still get the
latest snapshot of pkg_add_it via the Cgit repo. [1]
[1] http://git.unix-heaven.org/cgit.cgi/pkg_add_it/
Aha! I'm sure I looked at that page before posting, but did not see
how to pull
jhell jh...@dataix.net wrote:
Feel free to correct me if I am wrong but it is not going to
matter much to what extent a license has to do with this besides
ease of mind maybe. We would not be using the source for the VCS
in a repo that holds the source that is being distributed and
none of
Konstantin Tokarev annu...@yandex.ru wrote:
Why not Git?
One issue with either Git or Mercurial is that they are GPL.
AFAIK FreeBSD prefers to avoid GPL in the base or in critical
widely-used infrastructure if a viable non-GPL alternative
exists. Granted SVN, currently used to manage src, is
Janne Snabb sn...@epipe.com wrote:
On Mon, 20 Sep 2010, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
One issue with either Git or Mercurial is that they are GPL.
AFAIK FreeBSD prefers to avoid GPL in the base or in critical
widely-used infrastructure if a viable non-GPL alternative
exists.
The project
jhell jh...@dataix.net wrote:
... Mercurial being the distributed version control that it is
allows you to clone, make the changes you need to the clone test it
thoroughly and then either push or pull them to the main tree ...
At the risk of starting the VCS variant of the vi vs emacs wars :)
Doug Barton do...@freebsd.org wrote:
... Is it really absolutely necessary
to stop a service before it's files go away?
IMO the only time the ports infrastructure itself should do this
is if it isn't possible to pkg_delete the port cleanly if it's
running. For example, if
Matthias Andree mand...@freebsd.org wrote:
Am 06.09.2010 07:32, schrieb Dominic Fandrey:
What kind of dependency should I define if I just need something
for the install target? It's not needed before, not after and
not for the package.
I used to think it's INSTALL_DEPENDS, but I just
Frederic Culot frede...@culot.org wrote:
Following the links on the ports tasks wiki page I found
'obskurator' to be a wanted port ... so I gave it a try
and report about it here.
obskurator is supposed to obfuscate source code by changing
variable names ...
I believe the software itself
Marcin Wisnicki mwisnicki+free...@gmail.com wrote:
At this very moment, french package mirror has INDEX newer than in
other mirrors:
...
yet it does not have those packages.
How could something like this happen ?
By being examined while a resync was in process: evidently the new
INDEX file
Alex Dupre a...@freebsd.org wrote:
Scot Hetzel ha scritto:
Make sure that the devel/php5-pcre port is uninstalled, and
then install the php5 port by defining WITH_BUNDLED_PCRE.
No, no and no. I really cannot understand which is the
difficult part in following the 20100409 UPDATING entry.
[dropped current@ since it doesn't take non-member posts]
Tim Kientzle kient...@freebsd.org wrote:
The LD_LIBRARY_PATH issue is the most interesting
problem here. I don't immediately see a solution that
doesn't include teaching ld-elf.so.1 about some form
of per-application library path.
Erik Trulsson ertr1...@tudent.uu.se!ertr1013@agora.rdrop.com wrote:
If a port declares that it depends on file/library/whatever foo
from the port bar, but you have foo installed from the port
baz then the dependency check will be fine (since it finds
foo) but when the dependency should be
Martin Wilke m...@freebsd.org wrote:
Background:
We have a lot of old stuff on the portstree and it's time
to cleanup old stuff.
...
* www/nvu last official release was in 2005, no longer
supported, and also some vulnerabilities. We have
www/kompozer which also need an
Colin Percival cperc...@freebsd.org wrote:
On Sunday 02 August 2009 16:10:37 Tom Mende wrote:
Is there a way to get freebsd-update to keep userland sources
up to date?
Yes. If you have source code installed (for the right version of
FreeBSD) in /usr/src, then freebsd-update will keep it
Stefan Bethke s...@lassitu.de wrote:
Windows does not have p2p interfaces ...
Last I knew it had the ability to connect to an ISP
using either dialup or PPOE. I think they call it
dial-up networking or some such.
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Boris Samorodov b...@ipt.ru wrote:
PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca writes:
I already had f8 installed as well as fc-4
That's wrong. Two linux_base ports should not be installed
at a system ...
Might it be advisable for each new linux_base port to declare
itself incompatible with all earlier ones,
Johan van Selst joh...@stack.nl wrote:
... versions 3.0.5 and 3.1 were both released on the very same
day: 3.0.5 is not older than 3.1. The former was a stable bugfix
release and 3.1 came with serveral new features (and unfortunately
no perfect backwards compatibility for running older
Greg Lewis gle...@eyesbeyond.com wrote:
Marcus von Appen m...@freebsd.org wrote:
It is a problem with how the FreeBSD upgrade tools work and how
a port (read: application, library, whatever) manages its own
build.
Usually a port, in case it links to one of its own components,
should
If i18n is too cryptic or too alphanumeric, and
internationalization is too long, why not go with nls?
I personally think that nls is equally as cryptic as i18n or l10n.
Anyone care for intlzn? It's short, should still tab-complete
from in, and it may be a bit less cryptic than nls, i18n,
Pav Lucistnik p...@freebsd.org wrote:
Brian Whalen p??e v ?t 24. 03. 2009 v 12:08 -0700:
On a related topic, I wonder what the cost would be of acquiring
enough hardware so that the probability of actually getting a
package with portupgrade -aP would go up substantially ...
It's more a
Gary Jennejohn freenet.de!gary.jennej...@agora.rdrop.com wrote:
mtools doesn't use config options. You have to set them on the
command line when you install the port.
When you install it, or when you build it?
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Wesley Shields w...@freebsd.org wrote:
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 05:35:15PM -0700, Cynthia Flynn wrote:
Steven Kreuzer wrote:
On Mar 20, 2009, at 5:24 PM, Cynthia Flynn wrote:
Can someone confirm for me that a normal port install
of mtools brings up a configuration menu in which the
Gary Jennejohn gary.jennej...@freenet.de wrote:
Luigi Rizzo ri...@iet.unipi.it wrote:
... Cynthia Flynn wrote:
[snip - syslinux pulls in too much X11 stuff]
I think the extra dependencies that you find listed for syslinux:
[snip]
come directly from mtools ...
Yeah. It looks like
I have installed vpnc to connect to an employer's Cisco VPN
system, and it seems to make the connection, but after connecting
I can't ping the gateway nor anything beyond it ...
It turned out the only problem was the absence of
NAT Traversal Mode cisco-udp
in vpnc.conf. (Presumably not
I have installed vpnc to connect to an employer's Cisco
VPN system, and it seems to make the connection, but after
connecting I can't ping the gateway nor anything beyond it ...
Does this look at all familiar to anyone?
I have no idea since I haven't used vpnc, yet, but have you
I have installed vpnc to connect to an employer's Cisco VPN
system, and it seems to make the connection, but after connecting
I can't ping the gateway nor anything beyond it. The symptom
seems to resemble what is described in the Routing section of
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