Re: Is there a way to subscribe to the commit messages for only ports you maintain?

2021-05-17 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Tue, 18 May 2021, Julian H. Stacey wrote: I'd use /usr/ports/mail/procmail I wouldn't; it's an unsupported and obscure scripting language just asking for bugs, and actually has several CVEs against it. Better filters exist, such as "sieve" etc. -- Dave __

Re: Hungarian: rST localisation for language "hu" not found

2021-04-14 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Wed, 14 Apr 2021, Thierry Thomas wrote: [...] Note: it builds for the other languages, and only fails for Hungarian. Well, somebody has to say it so it may as well be me: is your hovercraft full of eels? -- Dave ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org m

Re: Deprecation of portsnap (was: Proposed ports git transition schedule)

2021-04-13 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Mon, 12 Apr 2021, Peter Jeremy via freebsd-ports wrote: Except that git will arbitrarily and randomly decide that it needs to run "gc" - which is similarly extravagant in memory usage. Last time I found one running, it thrashed that poor VM for 3 days. Would this be a good time to mention

Re: Python 2.7 removal outline

2021-03-25 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Thu, 25 Mar 2021, George Mitchell wrote: [...] it is really not for everybody to use overlays in current state (overlays are poor documented at least). [...] Until this thread I had never heard of them. -- George I can't remember the last time I used overlays (certainly w

Re: MAIL ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICE CENTER

2021-02-15 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Tue, 16 Feb 2021, Yuri Pankov wrote: As this came from freebsd.org, were they trying to shout something or do they have a compromised server? It's obvious it did NOT come from freebsd.org once you check the headers: Really? Here are my headers: Return-Path: Received: from mx2.freebsd.o

Re: MAIL ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICE CENTER

2021-02-15 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Tue, 15 Feb 2021, administra...@freebsd.org wrote: (Nothing) As this came from freebsd.org, were they trying to shout something or do they have a compromised server? -- Dave ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mai

Re: CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH and /usr/local

2021-01-15 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Fri, 15 Jan 2021, Gleb Popov wrote: +if (CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME MATCHES "BSD") +include_directories("/usr/local/include") This is most certainly a wrong thing to do. Instead of simply adding -I/usr/local/include everywhere, you should fix problems for each dependency that the software requ

Re: FireFox keeps loosing data

2020-11-12 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Thu, 12 Nov 2020, Andrea Venturoli wrote: Firefox uses sqlite databases to store cookies, history and other items. You should never store these on NFS. Really? It has worked properly for years; it's only been broken for some months. Besides history works perfectly. Wouldn't any corruption

Re: Patch compiler warnings away?

2020-10-02 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Thu, 1 Oct 2020, Moritz Schmitt wrote: I recently took over my first maintainership of a port and I have a question regarding on how to deal with compiler warnings. I've always treated warnings as potential errors, and act accordingly. One place I worked insisted that "-Wall" produce no me

Re: Aggressive ports removal

2020-08-30 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Sun, 30 Aug 2020, Yuri wrote: However, not many people are willing to install sysutils/bsdstats, or know about it, so it only counts based on a tiny fraction of hosts running FreeBSD. Tried to install it, and... aneurin# portinstall bsdstats [Reading data from pkg(8) ... - 322 pac

Re: Aggressive ports removal

2020-08-30 Thread Dave Horsfall
[ I seem to have missed the post to which this refers ] On Sun, 30 Aug 2020, Niclas Zeising wrote: Exactly. Another case in point: x11/xtset. Maintenance stopped in 1993, 11 days after the FreeBSD project came into existence. It works fine, and I find it very useful. If at some time in the

Re: [HEADS UP] Planned deprecation of portsnap

2020-08-12 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Mon, 10 Aug 2020, Robert Huff wrote: There are many users who never create any patches, but simply use the ports tree to install software. Add my name to that list. Mine too; this is a great way to drive "ordinary users" away from FreeBSD and towards, gasp, Penguin/OS... I took up Fr

Re: State changes via pkg's scripts

2020-07-07 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Wed, 8 Jul 2020, Dewayne Geraghty wrote: # cat +MANIFEST | jq -rM '.scripts' Sorry, but this always pushes one of my buttons. When using "cat file | proc" what's wrong with "proc < file"? -- Dave ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https:

Re: LibreOffice 6.4.4 is coming!

2020-06-11 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Thu, 11 Jun 2020, Shawn Webb wrote: There is nothing inconvenient about enjoying your hard work. You're awesome and your work (along with any other contributors) is very much appreciated. Thank you so much for all you do. Agreed; don't apologise for doing (hard) volunteer work, and of cour

Re: lsof marked ignored

2020-03-20 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Fri, 20 Mar 2020, Adam Weinberger wrote: That error should only occur if system sources are missing from /usr/src. Check that they're still there, and if not then check them out from svn. Does it not require kernel header files only? Only distributed with the source, which annoyed me bec

Re: [RFC] Adding a Rados block driver to bhyve

2020-03-09 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Mon, 9 Mar 2020, Miroslav Lachman wrote: There are some ports (for example sysutils/lsof) which need kernel sources to build. [...] Kernel sources, or just the headers? -- Dave ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org

Re: xterm-353

2020-02-03 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Mon, 3 Feb 2020, Christoph Moench-Tegeder wrote: You're right. For some reason, firefox is not handling the additional compression correctly (I see Content-Encoding: gzip in the headers, so it's advertised, but not unzipped by the browser, so I get a double- compressed file. Oh tempora, oh

Re: Is IPV6 option still necessary?

2019-10-08 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Wed, 9 Oct 2019, Wolfgang Zenker wrote: So, you don't *need* IPv6. But you might *want* to have it anyway. In my 40+ years career I've only encountered one (1) client that ran IPv6 internally (oddly enough, a law firm) and that was by management decree, not the tehchies' (come to think of

Re: FireFox and NFSv4

2019-06-13 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Thu, 13 Jun 2019, Andrea Venturoli wrote: For years I've had my home on an NFSv3 server. Finally I decided to move to NFSv4. [...] I got bitten quite badly by NFS in its early years; I see nothing much has changed... I think it was to do with file-locking, I think. -- Dave __

Re: FreeCAD 0.17 && /lib//libgcc_s.so.1

2019-02-22 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Fri, 22 Feb 2019, Tijl Coosemans wrote: If I were the lang/gcc maintainer this -rpath problem would be my number one priority. The current maintainer has never proposed any solutions and when I submit patches he always resists. I'm done wasting my time fighting him. I'm late to this disc

Re: Of Git and M$

2018-06-15 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Fri, 15 Jun 2018, Michael Gmelin wrote: github != git I didn't say that it was; did you misunderstand my message or something? -- Dave ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscr

Of Git and M$

2018-06-15 Thread Dave Horsfall
A related discussion reminded me of this: how would Microsoft's purchase of GitHub affect future development? After all, they'll get to call the shots...[*] The only good thing that came out of M$ is their RTF document format (used natively by the Mac's TextEdit utility, for example), which b

Re: Practice of "Sponsored by" in commit messages

2018-05-14 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Mon, 14 May 2018, Maxim Sobolev wrote: It is like someone trying to moderate what people in general or some group in particular (e.g. freebsd committers) are allowed to put on their t-shirts just because you find it offensive or inappropriate. Now, where did I put that link to the "t-shirt

Re: Ports and Packages

2018-04-20 Thread Dave Horsfall
blew away my swap/tmp) with no problems. I prefer to use ports because that way I get to specify the options that I want (as opposed to generic ones which may not apply to me), but I'll use the package when someone assumes that I have both terabytes and gigahertz to burn... -- Dave Hor

Problem with old files in freebsd-update/files

2018-02-27 Thread Dave Horsfall
v 8 2014 1b1e8f42628bcadd6b9a073012d798b0a4809bf72c1bf7cebefae7de5af7.gz Bit old, aren't they? -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer." ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list htt

Re: MESON_ARGS

2018-02-20 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Tue, 20 Feb 2018, Walter Schwarzenfeld wrote: There were whitespaces in the Makfile, seems caused this. This dates from PWB/UNIX i.e. about 40 years ago; I wonder if it will ever be fixed? White space is white space, FFS... -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't

Re: apache24 and pkg check --recompute

2018-02-14 Thread Dave Horsfall
some reason to remove those files? -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer." ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any m

Re: FreeBSD Palemoon branding violation

2018-02-07 Thread Dave Horsfall
dly enough, I find that I get better results from volunteers when I ask them to do something, instead of ordering them around like an arse-hat boss. -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer." ___

Re: FreeBSD Palemoon branding violation

2018-02-07 Thread Dave Horsfall
ns (that's the "VK2KFU" in my signature). -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer." ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-po

Re: FreeBSD Palemoon branding violation

2018-02-06 Thread Dave Horsfall
a lot politer than I would've been; then again, being an Aussie I tend to be an outspoken bastard, and I would've told him to perform an anatomically-impossible act. "You will" indeed... -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don

Re: Mailman has mismatched checksums

2018-01-17 Thread Dave Horsfall
changed i.e. it installs itself as pre-corrupted... I'm surprised that this breakage hasn't been noted until now. -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer." ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.o

Mailman has mismatched checksums

2018-01-16 Thread Dave Horsfall
with mismatched checksums: mailman-2.1.25: /usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Defaults.py mailman-2.1.25: /usr/local/mailman/Mailman/Defaults.pyc No configuration whatsoever was done; I merely installed the package and waited for any more updates to arrive. So, what can I do about it? -- Dave

Re: All those notes...

2018-01-07 Thread Dave Horsfall
;nova" becomes "simh-nova" but "vax" doesn't become "simh-vax" etc. What a shambles... Now to pay vewwy vewwy close attention to the Mailman notes, as I've just installed it for the first time and it ain't working

All those notes...

2018-01-07 Thread Dave Horsfall
10_1 [...] Etc (over a hundred of 'em). This was accompanied by zillions of notes, warning me to "do this" and "avoid doing that" etc. Err, were those notes squirreled away somewhere, or do I have to hope that I don't lose the window and its scrollback

Re: I've started getting ^@^@> in my xterms w/mutt

2018-01-03 Thread Dave Horsfall
y up to 2.20 without it... Oh, and still no response from "mb...@xs4all.nl"; is he/she/it still alive? -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer." ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Of LSOF

2017-12-27 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Wed, 27 Dec 2017, Kevin Oberman wrote: fstat(1) does much of what lsof does. I'll be damned; so it does... Thanks! -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer." ___ freebsd-ports@free

Re: Of LSOF

2017-12-27 Thread Dave Horsfall
Di box (where it was "mfs"), and even my old CP/M box (where it was "M:"). -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer." ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.fre

Re: Of LSOF

2017-12-26 Thread Dave Horsfall
ve at the time; I didn't build this system) because it wanted a certain #include file. I reported this in a PR saying that perhaps all header files be shipped, but I dunno what happened. -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand

Of LSOF

2017-12-26 Thread Dave Horsfall
ate. All repositories are up to date. Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting) Your packages are up to date. aneurin# Building it from ports updated it (as I probably did before), but should not the binary have been updated? Or are binaries not available for all ports (I guess)? -- Dave Horsf

Re: Procmail got updated!

2017-12-23 Thread Dave Horsfall
en he came in late the next morning, had been on the turps all night? Call it a wild guess on his part, but he somehow knew that I was the perp... -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer."

Re: Procmail got updated!

2017-12-20 Thread Dave Horsfall
over "jive" being de-ported (to coin a phrase)? No technical reason whatsoever, but apparently it upset someone's delicate sensibilities, so there's sort of a precedent. -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don

Procmail got updated!

2017-12-17 Thread Dave Horsfall
Doing my regular update, and... Upgrading procmail from 3.22_9 to 3.22_10... Good grief; who's the masochist who volunteered to support this obscure insecure and hitherto-unsupported scripting language? -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand secur

Re: Procmail Vulnerabilities check

2017-12-11 Thread Dave Horsfall
r*. I'd love to do that; what's the IP range of their scanners (I assume that they have more than one)? -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer." ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org maili

Re: Procmail Vulnerabilities check

2017-12-10 Thread Dave Horsfall
/etc/mail/access and DNSBLs etc? (I hope it's a coincidence that its name is also the same as the pro-spam Direct Marketing Association...) -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer." ___ freeb

Re: The ports@ list is now subscriber-post only

2017-12-09 Thread Dave Horsfall
@freebsd.org Thu Nov 30 16:25:12 2017 And that was only from when I started saving them; I just *love* demolishing specious arguments such as the above. -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer." __

Re: The ports@ list is now subscriber-post only

2017-12-09 Thread Dave Horsfall
h FreeBSD after all now (yes, that would've been a major factor in my decision to flee elsewhere). -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer." ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https:/

Re: Procmail Vulnerabilities check

2017-12-08 Thread Dave Horsfall
WTF? Sure as hell looks like Sendmail supports LDAP to me... -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer." ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-po

Re: Procmail Vulnerabilities check

2017-12-08 Thread Dave Horsfall
two Penguins); I've spent about 30 years with Sendmail and I ain't changing (I looked at Postfix but didn't like it)... -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer." ___

Re: Procmail Vulnerabilities check

2017-12-08 Thread Dave Horsfall
someone's delicate sensibilities.) -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer." ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe,

Re: Flavors *COMPLETELY* break the port system (synth and poudriere are useless)

2017-12-07 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Thu, 7 Dec 2017, Jan Bramkamp wrote: [ Cogent explanation deleted ] Thanks for that clear explanation; I've been promised a much bigger server in return for some contract work, so I'll start planning for it. -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand

Re: THANK YOU for flavors! (fwd)

2017-12-06 Thread Dave Horsfall
Errkk... This was meant for the list. -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer." -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2017 11:01:51 +1100 (EST) From: Dave Horsfall To: Mel Pilgrim Subject: Re: THANK YOU for flavors! S

Re: Flavors *COMPLETELY* break the port system (synth and poudriere are useless)

2017-12-06 Thread Dave Horsfall
"income") has 512MB memory (all it will take) ad 1GB swap; building Ruby etc kills it, so I use packages in that case i.e. no customisation if I wanted it. -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer." __

Re: (upgrading a port)

2017-11-25 Thread Dave Horsfall
process; I've been looking for one for quite a while... -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer." ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-

Re: Does /var/cache/pkg ever get cleaned out?

2017-11-20 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Tue, 21 Nov 2017, Eugene Grosbein wrote: Shouldn't one of the divers package tools be cleaning them out, or is that a separate task? man pkg-clean Thanks; that's over a half-gigabyte recovered on a 1GB /var... -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't unde

Does /var/cache/pkg ever get cleaned out?

2017-11-20 Thread Dave Horsfall
arate task? -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer." ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Firefox became much slower

2017-11-17 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Wed, 8 Nov 2017, Dave Horsfall wrote: It got really bad around 53 or so; I wish their programmers (no doubt fresh out of school) would fix existent bugs instead of adding frilly new "features"' we don't all have terabytes of free memory. Hmmm... Firefox 57.0 (&quo

Re: Firefox became much slower

2017-11-07 Thread Dave Horsfall
urces are exhausted; then panic && reboot. It got really bad around 53 or so; I wish their programmers (no doubt fresh out of school) would fix existent bugs instead of adding frilly new "features"' we don't all have terabytes of free memory. -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2

Re: SF mastersites

2017-10-28 Thread Dave Horsfall
ll work anywhere; I don't make use of local "features". -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer." ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/

Spam on -ports

2017-10-26 Thread Dave Horsfall
Is it official FreeBSD policy to allow spammers free reign on this list, or is the list owner merely incompetent? -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer." ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mai

Re: portmaster, portupgrade, etc

2017-10-06 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Thu, 5 Oct 2017, Chris H wrote: I'll second that.-- George (old fart w/50 years software experience) WooHoo! another greybeard! I'm at ~50yrs myself! Only 47 years exp here (the last 42 with Unix). -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand

Re: Repository statistics

2017-08-01 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Tue, 1 Aug 2017, Miroslav Lachman wrote: There is some interesting project - repository statistics - comparison with many different OS package repositories like Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian etc. Good stuff! I never liked Penguin/OS anyway. -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who

Monday Pick (fwd)

2017-07-31 Thread Dave Horsfall
When is the cocksucker who runs this this list going to implement some simple anti-spam provisions? Or are you one of those idiotic "frea speach" spam supporters, so prevalent amongst Americans these days? -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand

Re: Alpine not displaying UTF-8

2017-07-22 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Thu, 13 Jul 2017, Dave Horsfall wrote: I upgraded my Alpine to 2.21 (from 2.20) recently, now it is no longer displaying UTF-8 characters (yes, I have it set). Anyone else noticed this? I need to know whether it's a port bug or an upstream bug, so I know who to beat up. Replies, a

Alpine not displaying UTF-8

2017-07-12 Thread Dave Horsfall
I upgraded my Alpine to 2.21 (from 2.20) recently, now it is no longer displaying UTF-8 characters (yes, I have it set). Anyone else noticed this? I need to know whether it's a port bug or an upstream bug, so I know who to beat up. -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don&#x

Re: The future of portmaster [and of ports-mgmt/synth]

2017-05-31 Thread Dave Horsfall
Ada, FFS? -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer." ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: cdecl port

2017-04-30 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Sun, 30 Apr 2017, Paul J. Lucas wrote: > Note that I don’t use FreeBSD myself; I’m just the author of the new > cdecl. And a great program it is too! I've been using it since it was first posted to Usenet. -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand

Re: Do I need /var/db/portsnap/distfiles and /usr/port/distfiles?

2017-02-16 Thread Dave Horsfall
ks; nearly 1GB here I come... > > 106594 /var/db/portsnap/files > > If you don't use portsnap then you can delete everything under > /var/db/portsnap. Don't delete these files if you do. Yes, I do use portsnap, so thanks for the advice. -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2K

Do I need /var/db/portsnap/distfiles and /usr/port/distfiles?

2017-02-16 Thread Dave Horsfall
s 965198 /usr/ports/distfiles 106594 /var/db/portsnap/files It will claw me back about 1GB, which for me is a big deal... -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer." ___ freebsd-ports@

Finally got ports rebuilt!

2017-02-14 Thread Dave Horsfall
uilt for some reason. Anyway, that's pretty much it; many thanks to David Wolfskill and Tijl Coosemans for their kind assistance, and to the list members for their forbearance as I went through this learning exercise; I promise to keep ports up to date in the future. Thanks again.

Re: Problem with building libgcrypt

2017-02-13 Thread Dave Horsfall
s definitely a last resort (and the 10.3 CD I burned had better be readable). -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer." ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailma

Re: Problem with building libgcrypt

2017-02-13 Thread Dave Horsfall
uot;engineers" approach of "it it ain't broke, don't fix it" so I confined myself to kernel and security updates, otherwise leaving ports strictly alone. > What is the output of "pkg which /usr/local/lib/libiconv.la"? Not found; I sense a generic approach

Re: Problem with building libgcrypt

2017-02-13 Thread Dave Horsfall
conv AUTHOR: madpi...@freebsd.org 10-CURRENT after r254273 (committed on August 13, 2013) has an implementation of iconv enabled by default in libc. ? -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer."

Problem with building libgcrypt

2017-02-12 Thread Dave Horsfall
ges) Ummm, that's equivalent to the M$ "solution" of trying a reboot to see if it fixes it. It's asking me to review those errors before it continues; what could be wrong? Think of me as a beta tester for novices :-) -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Thos

Question on upgrading ports after 9.3->10.3

2017-02-11 Thread Dave Horsfall
l/ports (/usr/local is a separate file system). And then there's all my private stuff... I think it means "save any local configuration files etc"; if so, it could be better phrased. PS: For those who also have a Mac, do *not* futz around with symlinks in this manner, as it co

Re: libstdc++

2017-01-11 Thread Dave Horsfall
hought poudriere was for building packages to support a server farm? Sorry for all this, but until now this box has always been on 9.x, so this is my first major upgrade, hence I have zero experience... -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer.&quo

Re: libstdc++

2017-01-11 Thread Dave Horsfall
;s opinion of what I might want... > If you're getting packages with the wrong ABI, have you changed anything > in /etc/pkg/ or /usr/local/etc/pkg/? Haven't touched them, because I don't know what they are... -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't underst

libstdc++

2017-01-10 Thread Dave Horsfall
uot;aspell" happy? Or is it one of those silly GNU things are aren't allowed to be distributed under another licence? -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer." ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.

Ports on 10.3 upgrade (was Re: portsnap temporary files)

2017-01-10 Thread Dave Horsfall
it still whinges. I've emailed the maintainer, but I had to use my Gmail account (since Alpine was now broken). I've since restored the required 9.3 libraries to get the thing to work. Now to see why my nameserver is partly broken... -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) &qu

Re: portsnap temporary files

2017-01-07 Thread Dave Horsfall
iles being backed up, and thought the worst. And the sooner I upgrade to FreeBSD-10 the better, I think. Sorry for wasting everyone's time... -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer." ___ fre

Re: portsnap temporary files

2017-01-06 Thread Dave Horsfall
uld that be the problem? That INDEX hadn't been cleaned out for some reason? -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer." ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.o

Re: portsnap temporary files

2017-01-06 Thread Dave Horsfall
(Many responses) I note that no-one has answered the question which caused me to post the message in the first place viz: why weren't the files being removed automatically? Everyone appears to have missed this point... -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understan

Re: portsnap temporary files

2017-01-06 Thread Dave Horsfall
mapping of the > files I don't have that file. > I'm running portsnap on one system since portsnap was introduced and > never had issues with cleanups. Hmmm... -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer." ___

portsnap temporary files

2017-01-06 Thread Dave Horsfall
Is there some reason why portsnap cannot clean up /var/db/portsnap/files? I've just had to remove a zillion of them, a bunch at a time because "rm" choked on the arg list. Perhaps a "portsnap clean" command? I'm surprised that there isn't one. -- Dave Hors

Re: The ports collection has some serious issues

2016-12-20 Thread Dave Horsfall
hat you were doing and making Dave H. look silly. > > What I have (and others) wanted? What would make us happy? Perhaps for you to just quietly FOAD? When it comes to common sense, you appear to be utterly impervious. -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don&

Re: The ports collection has some serious issues

2016-12-18 Thread Dave Horsfall
er as a friend; you don't. He doesn't troll; you do. And who is this "everyone", anyway? Either enumerate them, or STFU. -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer." ___ freebsd-

FOCAL

2016-12-02 Thread Dave Horsfall
Be there an implementation of FOCAL? I have a hankering to get back to my early programming days :-) -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer." ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mai

Binary for Ruby?

2016-11-20 Thread Dave Horsfall
it's used by something which I've forgotten. -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer." ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-por

Re: Inconsistency? (was Re: misc/jive deleted)

2016-10-25 Thread Dave Horsfall
not really a daemon > anymore. :) Have you seen the FreeBSD home page? -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer." ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailma

Re: misc/jive deleted

2016-10-22 Thread Dave Horsfall
Yes please; it seems to be marked as broken: aneurin% cd wmfortune aneurin% less *descr WMFortune outputs fortune messages, just as its name says. aneurin% make ===> wmfortune-0.241_3 is marked as broken: No public disfiles. *** [all] Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/games/wmfortune. Sigh

Re: misc/jive deleted

2016-10-22 Thread Dave Horsfall
e interesting, for example; I actually had UUCP running on my home Z-80 box (there were overlays to hell and back). Next thing you know, "valgirl" will be deleted from Usenet... -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer." _

Re: harder and harder to avoid pkg

2016-10-14 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Fri, 14 Oct 2016, David Demelier wrote: > It's not writing a port that is complicated, it's the whole > infrastructure. You should see the Macports infrastructure... Fairly easy for the end user, but those developers sweat blood to make it so. -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2

Re: What sort of a hog is Ruby?

2016-10-11 Thread Dave Horsfall
en a problem on > any of my systems, ever. I seem to remember that I have run > into issues when I went to build some port which in turn built > many other ports, but that was quite some time ago. Maybe that > is what you're seeing. Yeah,

Re: Vulnerabilities in X libs

2016-10-08 Thread Dave Horsfall
that my ports are clean - it was corrupt for a while), and won't go to p47 because of those vulnerabilities. I'm not too concerned; my system is locked down tighter than a duck's bum. -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer.&quo

Vulnerabilities in X libs

2016-10-08 Thread Dave Horsfall
May I assume that these are being addressed? libXrender-0.9.9 is vulnerable libX11-1.6.3,1 is vulnerable "freebsd-update fetch" is not (yet) fetching anything. -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand

What sort of a hog is Ruby?

2016-10-07 Thread Dave Horsfall
t. What sort of disk farms do these developers have? I'm only a small-time user and wannabe developer... -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer." ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Will 10.3 clobber my ports area?

2016-10-04 Thread Dave Horsfall
also will give you the latest > versions of all ports. Many thanks! Now to pick a time to gird my loins... -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer." ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list h

Re: Will 10.3 clobber my ports area?

2016-10-04 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Wed, 5 Oct 2016, Dave Horsfall wrote: > Oh, this is for Joseph Mingrove: my mail log shows a message from you > (relayed via FreeBSD.org) but there's nothing in my mailbox about it > (and it certainly wasn't rejected). I guess I accidentally deleted it, > so could yo

Re: Will 10.3 clobber my ports area?

2016-10-04 Thread Dave Horsfall
ccidentally deleted it, so could you please send it again? -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer." ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-p

Will 10.3 clobber my ports area?

2016-10-03 Thread Dave Horsfall
Assuming the binary upgrade from 9.3 to 10.3 is "clean" i.e. it won't clobber any of my local stuff (this is my only FreeBSD server), what will happen to the ports area? Left alone, saved, or overwritten with/without any local chnages? -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) &

Re: [maintainer change] net-mgmt/cnagios

2016-09-19 Thread Dave Horsfall
earn Mandarin. As for Portuguese, it may as well come from a different planet... -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer." ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailm

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