Major changes since 6.2?

2007-10-17 Thread Kris Kennaway
What are some of the major changes to ports/ported applications since 6.2-RELEASE (01/2007)? I am in the process of putting together a talk and would like to mention some of the highlights. The main ones are xorg 7.3, KDE 3.5.7 and GNOME 2.18.3. Have there been any other major changes of

Re: 4203:31337 (possible exploit?)

2007-11-10 Thread Kris Kennaway
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 03:25:57PM +0100, Mike -freebsd wrote: Guys, is anyone else seeing this? drwxr-xr-x 69 4203 31337 1536 Nov 9 13:59 ports I see this on three of four FreeBSD 7 boxes and only on /usr/ports/ (why...?). Anyone else? Four different boxes of

Re: 4203:31337 (possible exploit?)

2007-11-10 Thread Kris Kennaway
Mike -freebsd wrote: On Nov 10, 2007 5:28 PM, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sounds like you may have a security problem (re: 31337 GID). If that's the case, I would strongly advocate formatting + reinstalling those machines. I asked because that is the uid/gid used on pointyhat

Re: Package Building in the Large

2007-11-20 Thread Kris Kennaway
Jason C. Wells wrote: I have been toying with a variety of package building methods lately. My latest effort involves looking into the Third Party Release Engineering documented here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/releng-packages/index.html. Where do I start if I am

Re: FreeBSD Port: php5-bz2-5.2.5

2007-12-26 Thread Kris Kennaway
Darrell Betts wrote: I am receiving this error when trying to compile php5 Makefile, line 588: warning: duplicate script for target main/internal_functions.lo ignored /bin/sh /usr/ports/lang/php5/work/php-5.2.5/libtool --silent --preserve-dup-deps --mode=compile cc -Iext/date/lib -Iext/date/

Re: Port Version via pkg_add

2008-01-02 Thread Kris Kennaway
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 08:10:12PM -0800, Jason C. Wells wrote: How does pkg_add determine what version of a port to add when 'pkg_add -Kr' is used? pkg_add calls getosreldate(3) to obtain the integer value of the release of FreeBSD running on the machine. The list of

Re: unknown build error

2008-01-02 Thread Kris Kennaway
Piotr wrote: hi I try to install a packet from ports using portinstall: # portinstall -f net/p5-Net-Pcap but get the following error: [Updating the pkgdb format:bdb_btree in /var/db/pkg ... - 651 packages found (-0 +1) . done] ** Listing the failed packages (*:skipped / !:failed) !

Re: unknown build error

2008-01-02 Thread Kris Kennaway
Piotr wrote: # cd /usr/ports/net/p5-Net-Pcap # make install clean === Building for p5-Net-Pcap-0.15_1 Makefile out-of-date with respect to /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/mach/Config.pm /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/mach/CORE/config.h Cleaning current config before rebuilding Makefile... make -f

Re: unknown build error

2008-01-02 Thread Kris Kennaway
Piotr wrote: which clock you mean ? # date Thu Jan 3 02:41:21 CET 2008 --- On Wed 01/02, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Kris Kennaway [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2008 02:31:25 +0100 Subject: Re

Re: unknown build error

2008-01-02 Thread Kris Kennaway
Piotr wrote: and how is the command to find out the timestamp of this file ? --- On Wed 01/02, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Kris Kennaway [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2008 02:52:48 +0100 Subject: Re

Re: pointyhat is building for 5.5 but claiming 8.0

2008-01-08 Thread Kris Kennaway
Boris Samorodov wrote: On Tue, 08 Jan 2008 23:10:45 +0100 Pav Lucistnik wrote: Boris Samorodov píše v st 09. 01. 2008 v 00:45 +0300: No, the port is using sysctl(2) to query the OS version which cannot be wrapped. Hm, ports-mgmt/tinderbox masks it somehow... And doesn't get an error for

Re: pointyhat is building for 5.5 but claiming 8.0

2008-01-08 Thread Kris Kennaway
Boris Samorodov wrote: On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 00:28:45 +0100 Kris Kennaway wrote: Pav Lucistnik wrote: Boris Samorodov píše v st 09. 01. 2008 v 02:16 +0300: On Tue, 08 Jan 2008 23:10:45 +0100 Pav Lucistnik wrote: No, the port is using sysctl(2) to query the OS version which cannot be wrapped

Re: pointyhat is building for 5.5 but claiming 8.0

2008-01-09 Thread Kris Kennaway
Boris Samorodov wrote: On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 00:28:45 +0100 Kris Kennaway wrote: Pav Lucistnik wrote: Boris Samorodov píše v st 09. 01. 2008 v 02:16 +0300: On Tue, 08 Jan 2008 23:10:45 +0100 Pav Lucistnik wrote: No, the port is using sysctl(2) to query the OS version which cannot be wrapped

Re: freebsd-games: hack needs -fwritable-strings

2008-01-10 Thread Kris Kennaway
Robert Huff wrote: James Cook writes: This seems to be caused by line 170 of hack.u_init.c, which attempts to modify a string constant. SOLUTION: Add -fwritable-strings to CFLAGS in hack's Makefile. (There's already a patch that changes that line of the Makefile, so this is easy to

Re: packages with security vulnerabilities

2008-01-20 Thread Kris Kennaway
P Bielecki wrote: Hi, freebsd-update helps me update base system, portaudit(1) reminds me everyday about security vulnerabilities in ports/packages and thanks to portupgrade(1), I keep them up to date. Quite often I build packages or use packages whenever available and share (NFS) them with my

Re: packages with security vulnerabilities

2008-01-21 Thread Kris Kennaway
P Bielecki wrote: On Jan 22, 2008 12:23 AM, P Bielecki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 21, 2008 11:57 PM, Doug Barton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: I still don't understand what you claim is the problem :) We do not specially update packages like perl; rather, *every

Re: ports setting UIDs/GIDs broadscape: chmod -R likely breaks things!

2008-01-24 Thread Kris Kennaway
Peter Much wrote: Dear all, a couple of Ports have in the install part of their Makefiles constructs like this: @ ${CHOWN} -R pgsql:pgsql ~pgsql/. ;\ I perceive this as very problematic. For instance: Below ~pgsql there at least two mounted filesystems, both with a .snap

Re: Possibly unbuildable ports reminder

2008-01-30 Thread Kris Kennaway
Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: Wesley Shields wrote: On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 07:45:09AM -0600, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: Bill Fenner wrote: Dear porters, This is just a reminder to please periodically check the list of unbuildable ports at http://pointyhat.freebsd.org/errorlogs/ . A

Re: Different variants of the same package on ftp.FreeBSD.org

2008-01-31 Thread Kris Kennaway
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 10:37:38AM +0100, Pav Lucistnik wrote: ~ $ host ftp.freebsd.org ftp.freebsd.org has address 204.152.184.73 ftp.freebsd.org has address 62.243.72.50 ftp.freebsd.org has IPv6 address 2001:6c8:6:4::7 ftp.freebsd.org has IPv6 address 2001:4f8:0:2::e

Re: make index on FBSD 5

2008-02-14 Thread Kris Kennaway
Patrik Forsberg wrote: Hi, Trying to do a make index of the ports tree on a FBSD 5.4-RELEASE-p4 but get the following error Generating INDEX-5 - please wait..=== arabic/ae_fonts_mono failed *** Error code 1 === accessibility/accerciser failed *** Error code 1 2 errors cut text *** Error code

Re: FreeBSD Port: timeseal-1.0 - Bad system call

2008-02-21 Thread Kris Kennaway
peter bird wrote: Please can you help with this? pulsarity# uname -a FreeBSD pulsarity.demax.sk 7.0-RC1 FreeBSD 7.0-RC1 #1: Wed Feb 6 11:45:51 CET 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PULS i386 pulsarity# timeseal Bad system call Use ktrace to determine what the syscall is.

Re: misc/compat6x

2008-02-28 Thread Kris Kennaway
Sergey Matveychuk wrote: Hi. I tried to start an application on 7.0 that requires libpthread.so.2. I've installed misc/compat6x, but have a problem: /usr/local/lib/compat/libpthread.so.2: Undefined symbol __malloc_lockCould not load addin module /usr/local/lib/libtfmessbsp.so! As I can see

Re: misc/compat6x

2008-02-28 Thread Kris Kennaway
Sergey Matveychuk wrote: The library is not linked with libc. But dynamic loader loads libc.so.7 for libthr.so.3. kib@ has told me it's impossible to fix (we can't mix libc.so.6 and libc.so.7 in one namespace). So we should ask vendor to recompile it for 7.0 (it's security/bsp_upektfmess).

Re: portupgrade, recommended by 7 release notes, breaks perl

2008-03-02 Thread Kris Kennaway
Steven Hartland wrote: Would fix this particular package but again: how many others do this? Maybe this is something that BSDPAN could / should override? It might be possible, you should talk to the BSDPAN maintainer. Kris ___

Re: clint port broken on 7-STABLE amd64

2008-03-06 Thread Kris Kennaway
Steve Franks wrote: Just built /devel/clint on my vanilla 7.0 system. Appears to build and install fine, but #clint or #clint --help freezes the console, and ctrl-C initiates a core-dump. Python appears to run just fine. Talk to the clint developers and/or the maintainer. Kris

Re: 6.2 release ports packages gone missing?

2008-03-17 Thread Kris Kennaway
Sean Bruno wrote: I guess due to the 6.3 release all the 6.2 release packages got deleted? Why delete them? Are they placed somewhere else? $ pkg_add -nr net-snmp Error: FTP Unable to get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6.2-release/Latest/net-snmp.tbz: File

Re: Kernel Compile Options: _KPOSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING, SMP

2008-03-22 Thread Kris Kennaway
Jim Stapleton wrote: Supposedly SMP is available by default in 7.0, but I didn't see the 'options SMP' entry in the generic config. I take it that is unnecessary for SMP support now? No, I think you are referring to the fact that sysinstall will install a kernel compiled with options SMP if

Re: New portmgr member: Florent Thoumie

2008-03-26 Thread Kris Kennaway
Soeren Straarup wrote: Hi flz and ret, On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:19:20 +0100 Erwin Lansing [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Portmgr is pleased to announce that Florent Thoumie has accepted the challenge of being a portmgr member. Florent has been with the project for a long time and is one of our most

Re: hang making bash in current

2008-04-27 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 04:43:58PM +0900, Randy Bush wrote: i386 extremely current. making bash checking for ranlib... ranlib checking for bison... yacc checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking for an ANSI C-conforming const... yes checking for inline... inline checking whether

Re: How often do pointyhat do a build?

2008-04-29 Thread Kris Kennaway
Mark Linimon wrote: On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 06:41:30PM -0700, Xin LI wrote: So does it imply that pointyhat's -CURRENT would (slightly) behind the current development? Yes, it takes some amount of time to upgrade everything. Is there any way to know which __FreeBSDversion the current build

Re: How often do pointyhat do a build?

2008-04-29 Thread Kris Kennaway
Kris Kennaway wrote: Mark Linimon wrote: On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 06:41:30PM -0700, Xin LI wrote: So does it imply that pointyhat's -CURRENT would (slightly) behind the current development? Yes, it takes some amount of time to upgrade everything. Is there any way to know which

Re: perl5.8 - perlio.c:2919: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type

2008-05-08 Thread Kris Kennaway
Randy Bush wrote: `sh cflags optimize='-O2 -pipe -march=pentiumpro -fno-strict-aliasing' globals.o` -DPIC -fPIC globals.c CCCMD = cc -DPERL_CORE -c -DAPPLLIB_EXP=/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/BSDPAN -DHAS_FPSETMASK -DHAS_FLOATINGPOINT_H -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe

Re: Handling user input and package building

2008-05-24 Thread Kris Kennaway
Paul Schmehl wrote: I'm trying to figure out how to handle user input in package building mode. I've got statements like this in my Makefile, and they work fine to suppress user input from the pkg-install script: pre-install: .if !defined(PACKAGE_BUILDING) @${SETENV} ${SCRIPTS_ENV}

Re: Compiler segfault under fbsd7?

2008-05-27 Thread Kris Kennaway
Matthew Seaman wrote: Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 12:38:05PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You are right: make buildworld exits with /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/cc_tools/../../../../contrib/gcc/genattrtab.c: In function 'make_internal_attr':

Re: CFT: adding configuration file support to pkg_install

2008-05-31 Thread Kris Kennaway
Philip M. Gollucci wrote: Florent Thoumie wrote: This adds support for /etc/pkg.conf configuration file. Also, this adds support for naive multi-site package fetching. Any comment welcome (and appreciated). Patch is here: http://people.freebsd.org/~flz/local/ports/pkg-install-config.diff

Re: INDEX build failed for 8.x

2008-06-01 Thread Kris Kennaway
Erwin Lansing wrote: INDEX build failed with errors: Generating INDEX-8 - please wait../a/erwin/tindex/ports/chinese/links/../../www/links/Makefile, line 75: warning: duplicate script for target pre-configure ignored pkg_info: not found pkg_info: not found pkg_info: not found

Re: INDEX build failed for 6.x

2008-06-06 Thread Kris Kennaway
Pav Lucistnik wrote: Kris Kennaway píše v pá 06. 06. 2008 v 13:39 +0200: Yasuhiro KIMURA wrote: From: Erwin Lansing [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: INDEX build failed for 6.x Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 04:03:22 GMT INDEX build failed with errors: Generating INDEX-6 - please wait../a/erwin/tindex

HEADS UP: Port versions going backwards

2008-06-07 Thread Kris Kennaway
Dear maintainers, For some time now the script that is supposed to monitor for port version strings decreasing has not been functioning (it runs but produces no output for some reason). Unfortunately this has allowed quite a few regressions to creep in. These are the ones I detected; the time

INDEX build optimizations - please review

2008-06-10 Thread Kris Kennaway
Please review and test the following patches that optimize port INDEX builds (and as a side-effect, other recursive tree traversals). I am particularly interested in a comparison between old and new indexes built locally: the only diff should be in audio/festvox-hvs [1]. The patches remove

Re: INDEX build optimizations - please review

2008-06-10 Thread Kris Kennaway
Pietro Cerutti wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Pietro Cerutti wrote: | Kris Kennaway wrote: | | | Another important optimization is to use /rescue/sh instead of /bin/sh | | for index builds. The former is statically linked and this is much | | faster to execute. | | True

Re: INDEX build optimizations - please review

2008-06-10 Thread Kris Kennaway
Jeremy Messenger wrote: On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:45:32 -0500, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another important optimization is to use /rescue/sh instead of /bin/sh for index builds. The former is statically linked and this is much faster to execute. I don't have INDEX in all of my

Re: INDEX build optimizations - please review

2008-06-10 Thread Kris Kennaway
Alex Kozlov wrote: On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 06:45:32PM +0200, Kris Kennaway wrote: Please review and test the following patches that optimize port INDEX builds (and as a side-effect, other recursive tree traversals). I am particularly interested in a comparison between old and new indexes

Re: INDEX build optimizations - please review

2008-06-10 Thread Kris Kennaway
Alex Kozlov wrote: On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 11:52:01PM +0200, Kris Kennaway wrote: Alex Kozlov wrote: On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 06:45:32PM +0200, Kris Kennaway wrote: Please review and test the following patches that optimize port INDEX builds (and as a side-effect, other recursive tree

Re: Question about ports adding cronjobs

2008-06-18 Thread Kris Kennaway
David Hawthorne wrote: I have a piece of software I've been working on that gathers stats about the local host and shoves them into rrd files, with an accompanying web front-end page that generates pretty graphs from the RRDs on demand. I have a package done up for it, and I'd like to add it

Re: regression-test

2008-06-18 Thread Kris Kennaway
Christian Weisgerber wrote: So I just learned that pointyhat tries to run a target regression-test as part of the build. (Somebody asked me to use that target in a port.) Is this documented somewhere? I don't know off-hand. I assume you searched the handbook? In particular, running tests

Re: INDEX build optimizations - please review

2008-06-19 Thread Kris Kennaway
Pietro Cerutti wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Kris Kennaway wrote: | ** | * NOTE TO PORT DEVELOPERS

Re: regression-test

2008-06-19 Thread Kris Kennaway
Wesley Shields wrote: On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 08:54:17AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christian Weisgerber wrote: ... In particular, running tests of what duration would be considered appropriate? E.g., building audio/flac takes a minute here, running the tests sixteen, which I suspect

Re: kdebase3 package is missing in 7-stable

2008-06-19 Thread Kris Kennaway
Patrick Lamaizière wrote: Hi, kdebase3 package for 7-stable/i386 is missing on the FTP. Yes. This happens from time to time when the ports or their dependencies are broken. Kris ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: kdebase3 package is missing in 7-stable

2008-06-19 Thread Kris Kennaway
Patrick Lamaizière wrote: Le Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:08:43 +0200, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : kdebase3 package for 7-stable/i386 is missing on the FTP. Yes. This happens from time to time when the ports or their dependencies are broken. Thank you Kris. I think something is wrong

Re: regression-test

2008-06-19 Thread Kris Kennaway
Tom Hukins wrote: On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 12:35:01PM -0400, Wesley Shields wrote: Which is why I would recommend wrapping them in checks for MAINTAINER_MODE or something similar. This way you, as the maintainer, can turn them on when you want but they don't affect anything else. That's true

Re: regression-test

2008-06-19 Thread Kris Kennaway
Thierry Thomas wrote: Le Jeu 19 jui 08 à 19:06:36 +0200, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] écrivait : We *want* regression tests to be available unconditionally -- that is why I added the hook to the package build process to run them if present. Please don't hack around this because you think

Re: regression-test

2008-06-20 Thread Kris Kennaway
Thierry Thomas wrote: Le Ven 20 jui 08 à 3:54:04 +0200, Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] écrivait : I try to enable regression-test when possible, but the current implementation is a post-build target, and some ports' testings need a post-install target. In these cases, I enclose the

Re: sysutils/screen package

2008-06-20 Thread Kris Kennaway
Philip M. Gollucci wrote: itche wrote: Chess Griffin wrote: Boris Kochergin wrote: Hi, List. I noticed that there isn't a package for sysutils/screen for 7.0. Compiling it from ports works fine, and I looked around and wasn't able to find logs relevant to it on

Re: INDEX build optimizations - please review

2008-06-22 Thread Kris Kennaway
Doug Barton wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: The new 'make describe' target runs entirely using shell builtins apart from the need to sed pkg-descr to extract the WWW [2] [2] Actually I am not happy with this but couldn't think of a way to do it better. Having to fork the subshell costs about

Re: ports/124944: [PATCH] audio/arts: Remove 5.x support

2008-06-24 Thread Kris Kennaway
Philip M. Gollucci wrote: o Remove 5.x support Port maintainer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is cc'd. FYI, we stated in the EOL announcement that we are not doing sweeping 5.x removals right away. Please give it more time. Kris ___

Re: ports/124944: [PATCH] audio/arts: Remove 5.x support

2008-06-24 Thread Kris Kennaway
Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote: On 2008 Jun 24, at 19:03, Philip M. Gollucci wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: Philip M. Gollucci wrote: o Remove 5.x support Port maintainer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is cc'd. FYI, we stated in the EOL announcement that we are not doing sweeping 5.x removals right

Re: libtool and .la files

2007-03-02 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 10:45:02PM +0800, Rong-en Fan wrote: IIRC, we don't install pseudo library files, i.e., .la files on FreeBSD. However, devel/libtool's ltmain.sh does not prevent this. Therefore, when set USE_AUTOTOOLS=libtool:15, we will install .la files. Do I miss something? Or,

Re: exim doesn't build on 4.9 (minor error)

2007-03-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 02:07:40PM -0600, Mark Linimon wrote: Hmm, I may have spoken too quickly, there is a report of this same problem on 6.2. Never mind my noise. Your point remains valid that the OP is in for a big shock if they keep trying to use up-to-date ports on their 4.9 system.

Re: file://localhost/usr/ports/security/crack/README.html

2007-03-12 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 04:55:39PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Something strange is going on. I've used crack in past to check for weak passwords among my users when I was sysadmin for a small network of Sun workstations used by physicists for computation. So, I decided to

Re: Why are package builds failing for editors/abiword-plugins?

2007-03-12 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 09:41:06PM -0500, Mark Linimon wrote: On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 02:53:03PM -0800, Eric P. Scott wrote: i386 and amd64 builds are failing as though something were forcing USE_AUTOTOOLS= libtool:15 and bypassing the included libtool. What's the difference? There

Re: Why so many tcl's and tk's

2007-03-13 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 04:09:26PM -0500, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: Are the different versions of tcl and tk really not backwards compatible with earlier versions? No, they are not. Kris ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Fwd: Why so many tcl's and tk's

2007-03-13 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 06:46:48PM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote: Begin forwarded message: From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: March 13, 2007 3:48:56 PM PDT To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why so many tcl's and tk's Kris Kennaway wrote: On Tue, Mar 13, 2007

Re: Why so many tcl's and tk's

2007-03-13 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 05:48:56PM -0500, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 04:09:26PM -0500, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: Are the different versions of tcl and tk really not backwards compatible with earlier versions

Re: Why so many tcl's and tk's

2007-03-14 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 07:26:25AM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote: Are the different versions of tcl and tk really not backwards compatible with earlier versions? No, they are not. What a pity. So how come the various linux distributions seem to get away with only one version of tcl and tk?

Re: Pushing for default jdk / jre to become java/diablo-j{dk,re}

2007-03-17 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 01:24:37PM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote: Hello all, I was just wondering if there was any way where we -- as a group -- could push to make the default jdk / jre the diablo packaged versions because frankly I don't want a system to assume that I want to compile

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: linuxdcpp-0.0.1.20070206 failed on amd64 7]

2007-03-20 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 02:55:09PM -0500, Jeremy Messenger wrote: On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 12:16:22 -0500, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Maintainer, As you may know, in the near future FreeBSD 7.x will be switching from the gcc 3.4 compiler to gcc 4.x. Unfortunately your port

Re: Ports management tools in the base (Was: Re: cvs commit: www/en/projects/ideas ideas.xml)

2007-03-20 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 03:47:25PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: Alexander Leidinger wrote: Quoting Rene Ladan [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tue, 20 Mar 2007 21:20:18 +0100): Doug Barton schreef: As for the requirements in the ideas page ... [...] * storing old copies of shared libraries after

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: linuxdcpp-0.0.1.20070206 failed on amd64 7]

2007-03-21 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 02:51:31PM -0500, Jeremy Messenger wrote: On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 15:21:39 -0500, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 02:55:09PM -0500, Jeremy Messenger wrote: On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 12:16:22 -0500, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear

Re: Time to kill FreeBSD as a Desktop

2007-03-29 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 11:46:34PM +0200, Rico Secada wrote: Hi All. I have been using FreeBSD as a desktop system, on serveral computers for about one and a half year now. I truly love FreeBSD! But keeping third party ports/packages updated is just to timeconsuming IMHO. Building

Re: working version of acroread7 for FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE needed

2007-03-30 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 01:52:49PM -0500, Scott Bennett wrote: I need a functioning version of acroread version 7 for my 6.1 system pkg_add -r acroread7 does not find a package. portinstall acroread7 fails initially on an error return from a brandelf command, as it should, because the

Re: working version of acroread7 for FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE needed

2007-03-30 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 05:47:43PM -0500, Scott Bennett wrote: On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 15:57:06 -0400 Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 01:52:49PM -0500, Scott Bennett wrote: I need a functioning version of acroread version 7 for my 6.1 system pkg_add -r

Re: working version of acroread7 for FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE needed

2007-03-30 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 03:32:40PM -0500, Scott Bennett wrote: On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 15:05:57 -0500 Rick Voland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Scott Bennett wrote: I need a functioning version of acroread version 7 for my 6.1 system pkg_add -r acroread7 does not find a package.

Re: FreeBSD and NetBSD's pkgsrc: A strategic synergy for awesomeness

2007-04-01 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 01:58:18PM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote: FreeBSD Ports Tree Management wrote: Dear FreeBSD ports community, It has been a good quarter for the ports collection and now is as good a time as ever to reflect back on the ports tree as well as plot it's future. We have

Re: HEADS UP: OPTIONS improvement

2007-04-03 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 07:52:57AM +0900, NIIMI Satoshi wrote: On 2007/04/03 14:12, Rong-En Fan wrote: After pav@'s commit to bsd.port.mk, now you can test WITH/WITHOUT freely with OPTIONS. I filed a PR ports/78343 with similar patch, but the PR was rejected. Why the policy has been

Re: Incorrect version comparison

2007-04-04 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 09:10:21PM +0200, Marcus Ahlberg wrote: My daily cronscript reported this morning that there was a new version of ruby+pthreads: ruby+pthreads-1.8.5.12,1 needs updating (index has 1.8.6,1) However, when I was about to upgrade it, it didn't appear in

Re: cvsup - TreeList failed: Network write failure: Connection closed

2007-04-04 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 07:37:56PM +0100, [LoN]Kamikaze wrote: That would mean that ipw is broken. I never had such problems when I was using 5-stable with ipw from the ports. OK. Kris pgpXJoywrkH5y.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Switch to using rc.d for local packages is premature for RELENG_6

2007-04-04 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 01:59:32PM -0700, Kevin Downey wrote: On 3/21/06, Maxim Sobolev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just realized that maybe the best approach to address this problem would be not reverting the change in question, but making find_local_scripts_new() more strict, so that

Re: ruby port version going backwards? epoch

2007-04-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 09:31:42AM +0200, Matthias Andree wrote: Greetings, I just saw this after portsnap fetch update when running pkg_version -IvL=: ruby-1.8.5.12,1succeeds index (index has 1.8.6) Please restore ruby's PORTEPOCH - and consider installing

Re: diablo-jdk / 7.0-CURRENT

2007-04-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 11:33:11PM +0200, Peter, Oliver wrote: Hi, I would like to use diablo-jdk under my fresh 7.0-CURRENT. Is it correct that I have to use the binaries from FreeBSD 5.x instead of FreeBSD 6.x ? The Makefile check: .if ${OSVERSION} = 60 ${OSVERSION} = 70

Re: portsdb: index generation error

2007-04-08 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 09:13:16PM -0400, Jeff Whitman wrote: In advance, thank you. FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p3 #0: Sun Apr 8 16:02:37 EDT 2007 CPU: Pentium III/Pentium III Xeon/Celeron (498.75-MHz 686-class CPU) Real memory = 805298176 (767 MB) Avail memory = 782880768 (746 MB) The script

Re: Using portsnap after sysinstall

2007-04-12 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 12:29:54PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I'd really like to be able to do is used portsnap, which seems like a great tool, but preserve all of the information about my existing packages. I have no idea if I can just wipe out my old /usr/ports and run portsnap

Re: Reviewing changes before the merge of X.org 7.2

2007-04-13 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 08:55:40PM +0100, Florent Thoumie wrote: As you may know, we're not far from merging xorg modular in the CVS repository. Before this happens, we have to make sure there are no collateral damages made to innocent ports. I'd like people to come to #freebsd-xorg on EFNet

Re: parallel builds revisited

2007-04-13 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 04:51:33PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My opinion is that there should be a threshold value empirically derived by the developer / retrieved by bug reports, as well as a knob, to specify the maximum number of parallel jobs to be used for a particular port, that

Re: parallel builds revisited

2007-04-13 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 07:12:21AM +0200, [LoN]Kamikaze wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 09:31:37PM +0200, [LoN]Kamikaze wrote: Btw, do you think it's possible that a port can only be built with, n parallel make jobs, but will fail with n+1? No. I do not think

Re: make index on FREEBSD_4_EOL

2007-04-14 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 03:40:02AM +0200, Benjamin Lutz wrote: Hello, Is make index on FREEBSD_4_EOL supposed to work? I'm getting breakage in the gstreamer-plugin ports. If there's no easy fix, could someone send me an INDEX file that matches the state of the ports tree at

Re: Lynx -vulnerabilities- is this permanent?

2007-04-18 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 10:10:41AM +0800, Foxfair Hu wrote: Lowell Gilbert wrote: David Southwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: portupgrade -a produces following output for lynx on cvsup from today. freebsd 6.1 - --- Upgrading 'lynx-2.8.5_2' to

Warnings added to INDEX

2007-04-19 Thread Kris Kennaway
Someone (probably two people) recently committed changes that make INDEX builds emit warnings: /usr/local/bin/kpsewhich: not found Makefile, line 38: warning: /usr/local/bin/kpsewhich -format 'dvips config' config.ps returned non-zero status

Re: Warnings added to INDEX

2007-04-20 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 12:28:38PM +0400, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: On 4/20/07, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /a/portbuild/amd64/7/ports/deskutils/linux-sunbird/ ../../www/linux-seamonkey/Makefile.common, line 43: warning: duplicate script for target post-extract ignored Fixed

Re: install fails because / is not writeable

2007-04-30 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 08:45:17AM +0200, [LoN]Kamikaze wrote: Once in a while a port fails to upgrade, because it wants to write something in /etc. E.g. perl into /etc/make.conf or other ports into /etc/group. On my systems / is normally a read only mount. These ports build fine during a

Re: make -D recent problem?

2007-05-01 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 07:04:43PM -0300, JoaoBR wrote: make -DFORCE_PKG_REGISTER [re]install do install a second port (duplicate) is this a bug or do I have some problem on this machine? 6.2-STABLE FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #0: Fri Apr 27 20:46:32 BRT 2007 portsnap update I did today

Re: Packages not respecting DESTDIR ( perl5.8 )

2007-05-01 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 01:12:54AM +0100, Steven Hartland wrote: I'm trying to install ports into a jail but even some key ports like don't seen to support this option even to the extent they appear to break the host OS deleting files. I'm assuming this shouldn't be the case? DESTDIR is

Re: make -D recent problem?

2007-05-01 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 09:12:29PM -0300, JoaoBR wrote: I'm not sure what you want to hear but to clarify What I meant was: when you are trying to report an error you usually need to show exactly what is going wrong, because just describing it vaguely does not often help, because we have to

HEADS UP: xorg upgrade plans

2007-05-02 Thread Kris Kennaway
Hi all, After many months of hard work (mostly by flz@, as well as others) we are approaching readiness of the xorg 7.2 upgrade. Because this is a huge and disruptive change, we're going to approach it very carefully. The current plan is the following: 1) Tag ports with PRE_XORG_7 and freeze

Re: HEADS UP: xorg upgrade plans

2007-05-02 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 02:40:26PM -0500, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: On Wed, 2 May 2007, Kris Kennaway wrote: Hi all, After many months of hard work (mostly by flz@, as well as others) we are approaching readiness of the xorg 7.2 upgrade. Because this is a huge and disruptive

Re: HEADS UP: xorg upgrade plans

2007-05-02 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 03:26:25PM -0600, Coleman Kane wrote: On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 15:43 -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 02:40:26PM -0500, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: On Wed, 2 May 2007, Kris Kennaway wrote: Hi all, After many months of hard

Re: HEADS UP: xorg upgrade plans

2007-05-02 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 11:36:03PM +0200, Gerald Pfeifer wrote: On Wed, 2 May 2007, Kris Kennaway wrote: In particular all ports committers are expected to participate in this process of eating our own dogfood :) Our marketing folks educated me to use the phrase drinking our own

Re: HEADS UP: xorg upgrade plans

2007-05-02 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 03:31:59PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote: Hi all, After many months of hard work (mostly by flz@, as well as others) we are approaching readiness of the xorg 7.2 upgrade. Because this is a huge and disruptive change, we're going to approach it very carefully

Re: make -D recent problem?

2007-05-02 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 07:16:42AM -0300, JoaoBR wrote: gnome-libtool: link: `/usr/X11R6/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.la' is not a valid libtool I guess one of those libraries needs to be rebuilt. grep -r /usr/X11R6/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.la /usr/local/lib /usr/X11R6/lib should show you the

Re: Python 2.4.4 Default Version?

2007-05-02 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 08:36:46PM -0400, David Stanford wrote: Hi all, Just out of curiosity, why is Python 2.4.4 the default version under lang/python instead of 2.5.1? Updating to 2.5.1 involves lots of (simple) work to fix the resulting breakage to ports, if you are interested in helping

Re: HEADS UP: xorg upgrade plans

2007-05-03 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 05:43:47PM +0100, mal content wrote: /usr/local Hello. Why is FreeBSD using /usr/local instead of /usr/X11R7? /usr/local is the new de facto standard, AFAIK no-one is using /usr/X11R7. Kris ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org

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