Installing non-ports software into /usr/local

2012-09-30 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
Hi I am having an issue with mutt 1.5.21. I have set up different colour schemes, etc. as people do. Anyway, I reinstalled it 2 days ago using the ports system, because I wanted to link mutt to the ncurses port rather than the system ncurses installation. After soing non of my colours show,

Re: Installing non-ports software into /usr/local

2012-09-30 Thread Chris Rees
On 30 September 2012 11:16, Jamie Paul Griffin ja...@kode5.net wrote: Hi I am having an issue with mutt 1.5.21. I have set up different colour schemes, etc. as people do. Anyway, I reinstalled it 2 days ago using the ports system, because I wanted to link mutt to the ncurses port rather

Re: CFT: x11/nvidia-driver major update to 304.xx series

2012-09-30 Thread Jerry
On Sat, 29 Sep 2012 18:21:16 -0400 (EDT) Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng. articulated: I mentioned in my first post that I already tried rebuilding everything on up. From your original post: quote Tried rebuilding a bunch of other things, but didn't help. /quote The word bunch != build or run

Re: huge distfiles policy

2012-09-30 Thread Jerry
On Sat, 29 Sep 2012 15:15:01 -0700 Kevin Oberman articulated: CDROMs are not getting bigger, but the size of disks just continue to increase. However, DVD's can easily handle a paltry 1.4GB. All modern systems come with DVD's so perhaps it is time to embrace progress and move forward with our

Re: Problems submitting patch containing UTF-8 characters

2012-09-30 Thread Michael Gmelin
On Sun, 30 Sep 2012 05:08:03 +0200 Michael Gmelin free...@grem.de wrote: Hi, I recently ran into a problem submitting a PR containing UTF-8 characters, they ended up garbled, so the maintainer couldn't apply the patch cleanly. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=171645 The

Re: Problems submitting patch containing UTF-8 characters

2012-09-30 Thread Michael Gmelin
On 30 Sep 2012, at 16:19, Shaun Amott sh...@freebsd.org wrote: On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 05:08:03AM +0200, Michael Gmelin wrote: I recently ran into a problem submitting a PR containing UTF-8 characters, they ended up garbled, so the maintainer couldn't apply the patch cleanly. GNATS,

Re: huge distfiles policy

2012-09-30 Thread Romain Tartière
Hi! On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 12:17:03AM +0200, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: My second concern was discussed when Dominic Fandrey called for testing this port: at least 2 people have been working on texlive with different approach: hrs and romain. In particular Romain and I discussed on merging

Re: freebsd-ports Digest, Vol 488, Issue 9

2012-09-30 Thread Boniek
GIMP 2.8 is new version for installer with gratulation that is very easy , first deinstall png 1.4.x dependecy of graphic,kde,firefox,etc.. and muches modules.. next install GIMP 2.8 more png-1.5 and then finish .011001100110. 2012/9/30

mail/maildrop-2.6.0's maildirmake

2012-09-30 Thread andrew clarke
I just discovered the maildirmake command has been inexplicably renamed maildrop-maildirmake between maildrop-2.5.5 and maildrop-2.6.0, which broke my maildrop rules. Maybe this should go into /usr/ports/UPDATING? Cheers. ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org

How can I know popularity of ports?

2012-09-30 Thread meta
Is there any ways to know how popular a port is? For example, Debian Popularity Contest http://popcon.debian.org/ tells us usage of packages. Does FreeBSD Ports Collection have similar work to popcon? -- `whois vmeta.jp | nkf -w` meta m...@vmeta.jp ___

Re: How can I know popularity of ports?

2012-09-30 Thread Cpet Services
Not that I know of. On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 11:40 PM, meta m...@vmeta.jp wrote: Is there any ways to know how popular a port is? For example, Debian Popularity Contest http://popcon.debian.org/ tells us usage of packages. Does FreeBSD Ports Collection have similar work to popcon? -- `whois

Re: How can I know popularity of ports?

2012-09-30 Thread Freddie Cash
Bsdstats port does something similar. It's opt-in, so the stats are heavily selection biased (similar to popcon). On Sep 30, 2012 9:49 PM, meta m...@vmeta.jp wrote: Is there any ways to know how popular a port is? For example, Debian Popularity Contest http://popcon.debian.org/ tells us usage

Re: How can I know popularity of ports?

2012-09-30 Thread Cpet Services
Isn't that for OS usage rather ports ? On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 11:57 PM, Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com wrote: Bsdstats port does something similar. It's opt-in, so the stats are heavily selection biased (similar to popcon). On Sep 30, 2012 9:49 PM, meta m...@vmeta.jp wrote: Is there any

Re: How can I know popularity of ports?

2012-09-30 Thread Cpet Services
Well then I stand corrected On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 12:00 AM, Cpet Services cpetserv...@gmail.comwrote: Isn't that for OS usage rather ports ? On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 11:57 PM, Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com wrote: Bsdstats port does something similar. It's opt-in, so the stats are heavily