y out of the ordinary, so I would not be surprised if
there is little or no tool support for it.
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with the help of 'Porter's Handbook' and hopefully get new xfm working on
BSD. It might take awhile, though.
Don't forget to update the WWW URI for it, which currently points at
some kind of alternative medicine site or some such stuff.
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On Sun, Feb 09, 2014 at 10:39:44PM +, Matthew Seaman wrote:
On 09/02/2014 22:18, Chad Perrin wrote:
On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 11:16:52PM +, Matthew Seaman wrote:
On 14/01/2014 19:35, Matt Reimer wrote:
That's good news. What should I watch for in order to know when Really
Soon Now
to a deadline; I would rather it be done right
than done quickly. I'm just interested in having something like an
order-of-magnitude guesstimate for how far in the future Real Soon Now
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wrong with the PR system when many people obviously find it
daunting and discouraging to attempt to use it -- that comes off like a
dismissal of the very people who can contribute real value by alerting
port maintainers and committers to the fact there are potentially
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ISP's SMTP server.
I think the fact one needs, by default, to have sendmail set up before
one can use send-pr is a problem with send-pr as well.
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there's anything wrong.
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Thank you, I'm sure this took an enormous amount of time and effort on
your part.
Ditto. I've been waiting for this for quite a while, and I'm glad we've
gotten here. Thanks for the hard work, guys.
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is a nice pdf reader, and you use 'r' to rotate the page.
High five. I came here to say this.
(Sorry about the double-send. I think I accidentally replied directly
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a maintainer, could someone please takeover the maintainership? Thank you!
PR link: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/169860
Will it be updated to xombrero?
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On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 07:40:40PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote:
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 09:16:28PM +0800, HU Dong wrote:
Hi, all!
Several days ago, I sent a PR to update www/xxxterm and ask to takeover
maintainership. Since I'm not familiar with diff and patch commands, the
progress has
I think it would probably be
a good idea to specify license in the port Makefile when at all
reasonable to do so, considering how simple it is to do so and the fact
it may be useful to some users.
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already well-represented in the ports system is not good enough on the
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it too, that is.
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result will not be = 1.9.2, for a number of reasons, including the
fact that 1.9.3 is when Ruby started using a copyfree license (the
Simplified BSD License, or 2-clause BSD License) instead of the previous
copyleft license (the GPL).
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as imaginary authorities who claim to be
able to provide special security guarantees.
So . . . your opinion may be that a self-signed sertificate means
virtually nothing, but security in the real world does not operate on
unfounded opinions.
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/libaio-oracle/
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by upstream,
and support it as a deprecated (perhaps even undocumented) feature in
bsdsort just so it's easier to entirely eliminate any dependence on
gnusort for purposes of backward compatibility.
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of a
blurb or award description.
Is that the Wheeler's Law you mean?
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I'll be testing the bsdsort for my own purposes, and report back if I
have any problems. Thanks for the hard work!
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, and this is not intended as legal
advice. It's just an expression of frustration at the way everybody
seems to think intentionally ignoring licensing will somehow make
copyright and license claims invalid.
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. It's also completely
unclear what any of it means from an actual legal standpoint, and
personally I'm not convinced that we aren't making things worse for the
project by doing this.
How? I don't see the problem that makes things worse, I guess.
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, with the understanding that it may not
mean anything useful depending on jurisdiction. Beyond that, I probably
shouldn't say anything about it on this list. The applicability of
plain ol' public domain dedications can be a contentious topic.
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, by
providing source code downloads alongside the binary downloads.
Is that better? In effect, it's the same thing, but longer.
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to refer to the CC0 license in FreeBSD
port makefiles.
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Doesn't pass portlint.
Can't fetch the RPM file.
Otherwise, a pretty good start.
It also lacks license information.
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On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 09:53:25AM +1000, Da Rock wrote:
On 01/05/12 01:41, Chad Perrin wrote:
On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 02:27:57PM +0100, Gary Jennejohn wrote:
On Wed, 04 Jan 2012 22:31:51 +1000 Da Rock
freebsd-po...@herveybayaustralia.com.au wrote:
I was advised to copy the essential parts
of handling the responsibility. This one is not likely to change too
much over time, but my skills are probably wanting.
The best way to learn, I think, is to get yourself a mentor and jump in.
That's how I'm doing it (and yeah, that means I'm not the right person to
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On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 12:20:45PM +1000, Da Rock wrote:
On 01/05/12 12:11, Chad Perrin wrote:
The best way to learn, I think, is to get yourself a mentor and jump in.
That's how I'm doing it (and yeah, that means I'm not the right person to
mentor you).
Thats what I'm looking for, alright
On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 03:07:44AM -0800, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
Chris Rees cr...@freebsd.org wrote:
Also, its last update appears to be in 2003, and it's long dead
s/long dead/in good enough shape to be useful/
Indeed:
Project Activity != Project Health
On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 06:45:48PM +, Chris Rees wrote:
On 11 December 2011 18:01, Chad Perrin c...@apotheon.net wrote:
On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 03:07:44AM -0800, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
Chris Rees cr...@freebsd.org wrote:
Also, its last update appears to be in 2003, and it's
the very latest updates in the ports
systems. It saves valuable time in not having to update a freshly
installed system immediately after installing it (usually anyway).
Unfortunately, you are not the only user they must consider.
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your mileage may vary.
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On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 08:46:10PM +0200, Łukasz Wąsikowski wrote:
W dniu 2011-09-15 20:08, Chad Perrin pisze:
If there was something broken with a FreeBSD port (a relative
rarity), it would fail to install, leaving me with the older
version. If there was something wrong with a Gentoo
of the send-pr tools
more approachable, if only because this is an interface to ports
maintenance that should be available and approachable for *every* user
of the OS
That's just my relatively uninformed opinion. I welcome corrections of
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for the majority of yours.
Now that you have vented, have you filed a PR against this
behavior/port/WTF? If not, I would recommend you do so.
. . . as would I. It's interesting you got around to saying something
useful. Keep up the good work.
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if it's not in the
next few weeks, after all.
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working on the assumption that your assertion it
should be deprecated and removed does not rely on it no longer building
and/or working because of the way you mentioned no longering building
and/or working as a parenthetical addendum rather than a condition of
deprecation and removal.
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On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 04:45:02PM +0200, Matthias Andree wrote:
I want to make installing dead ports harder for users.
Why?
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On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 06:48:30PM +0100, Chris Rees wrote:
On 10 September 2011 18:15, Chad Perrin c...@apotheon.net wrote:
On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 04:45:02PM +0200, Matthias Andree wrote:
I want to make installing dead ports harder for users.
Why?
Someone who wants to install
On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 10:38:55PM +0200, Matthias Andree wrote:
Am 10.09.2011 18:17, schrieb Chad Perrin:
On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 12:09:16PM +0200, Matthias Andree wrote:
On the other hand, you're pointing out a problem of dead ports in the
first place: if the API of (usually library
be working
anyway.
It occurs to me there are people who would call KDE4 a poor port. I
suspect deleting that would not go over well.
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On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 06:36:46PM +0200, Matthias Andree wrote:
Am 08.09.2011 16:15, schrieb Mikhail T.:
An obscure piece of software is undesirable (and shouldn't be ported in
the first place).
Wait -- what? Why should something not be ported if it's not popular?
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of the CVS attic, though. I
had no idea such a thing existed for old FreeBSD ports until fairly
recently, and still don't know much about it. I would think that the
porter's handbook, at least, should mention it (perhaps with a brief
explanation of why and how one might make use of it).
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/ztelnet is no longer in the ports, but:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/net/ztelnet/?hideattic=0
will list the files and you can download from there.
Where is this documented?
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On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 09:37:07PM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote:
On 2011-Sep-07 01:35:54 -0600, Chad Perrin c...@apotheon.net wrote:
One thing I've seen come up that I definitely think would be a good
idea, though, is more accessible documentation of the CVS attic,
though. I had no idea
On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 05:57:17PM +0200, Erik Trulsson wrote:
On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 09:25:15AM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote:
My understanding is that you are saying attic is just the standard
term for CVS history. Is that the case, or do I misunderstand your
point?
Almost correct
at all.
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On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 11:13:58AM +0200, Michel Talon wrote:
Chad Perrin wrote:
Of course, your goal is apparently to
convince me that yours are the correct priorities.
Indeed i think having the correct priorities is essential when choosing
between different options, and i am sincerely
of getting a new maintainer for
a popular port when its previous maintainer has been lax (or hit by a
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On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 11:55:25AM -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
On 08/30/2011 08:29, Chad Perrin wrote:
Might that not interfere with the process of getting a new maintainer for
a popular port when its previous maintainer has been lax (or hit by a
bus)?
Sorry if I'm being dense, but I'm
experience. I do not, at the moment, feel a burning need to find
excuses to switch to NetBSD or OpenBSD as my primary laptop OS of choice.
Don't let me throw fuel on the fire, here, but please don't throw out the
baby with the bathwater, either.
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On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 10:44:27PM +0200, Michel Talon wrote:
Chad Perrin said:
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 12:17:12AM -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
FreeBSD needs to get better in this area, but I seriously doubt it
will
ever be as easy and painless as something like ubuntu.
For a great many
the port build to fail. Perhaps it is time to remove this option
from the port.
Hopefully it will only be a temporary problem.
What exactly is the benefit of using GnuTLS instead of OpenSSL anyway?
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defensive use.
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(or any other open source
OS) that way, though.
Keep in mind that Debian's package archives have more software in them
than any other OS software management system archives -- though I think
FreeBSD is a not-too-distant second place.
Also . . . do you think that top-posting helped?
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Someone mentioned the mailing list for the freebsd-chromium support
group. I'm inclined to check it out.
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On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 11:19:00AM -0300, Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote:
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote:
On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 01:25:35PM -0300, Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote:
You can fork the code, rename it, whatever, but you can NOT change
considered copyright infringement!
There. I fixed it for you.
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