Re: portupgrade vs. portmanager

2005-01-01 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Saturday 01 January 2005 04:30 am, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > On 28 Dec Michael C. Shultz wrote: > > Portmanager only addresses that one issue and for the forseeable > > future that is where all the focus will be, only on correctly > > updating ports. > > Am I t

Re: ports - ignore hosts that aren't responding?

2004-12-31 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Friday 31 December 2004 06:14 pm, Timothy Luoma wrote: > I've tried to install several ports that rely on gnu.org over the > past several days, and the first THREE attempts timeout. Here's one > example: > > => Attempting to fetch from http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/. > fetch: http://ftp.gnu.

Re: Passing options to a 'make install clean'

2004-12-31 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Friday 31 December 2004 04:24 pm, Sean wrote: > Michael C. Shultz wrote: > > On Friday 31 December 2004 02:20 pm, rsh wrote: > >>I am trying to 'make install clean' of openoffice and do not want > >> to install Java. > >> > >>I have tri

Re: Passing options to a 'make install clean'

2004-12-31 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Friday 31 December 2004 02:20 pm, rsh wrote: > I am trying to 'make install clean' of openoffice and do not want to > install Java. > > I have tried several things to say no to Java but it always wants to > try to install jdk14, and this port is not user friendly with my > amd64 system. > > So h

Re: re portmanager, how to prevent upgrade of held ports

2004-12-31 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Friday 31 December 2004 09:49 am, nbco wrote: > Hi list, > > I am trying out portmanager-0.2.2, on a 5.3-RELEASE box. > > I have openoffice-1.1.3.20040810 installed. I don't want to upgrade > openoffice at this time, as I don't have the space for a full compile > and will wait for a new package

Re: Man pages take forever on slow machine?

2004-12-28 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Tuesday 28 December 2004 09:26 pm, Scott I. Remick wrote: > Ok so I got over my hurdle getting FreeBSD 5.3 installed on this old > Presario (it ended up being RAM... needed more than 16MB to get > through install, borrowed some and then could then back off to > default 16MB after 5.3 was on). I

Re: desktop-file-utils

2004-12-28 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Tuesday 28 December 2004 08:55 pm, you wrote: > On Tuesday 28 December 2004 08:34 pm, "Michael C. Shultz" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I get the following error when trying to deinstall > > desktop-file-utils: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/

Re: portupgrade vs. portmanager

2004-12-28 Thread Michael C. Shultz
new package will be built correctly for your system. After you are familiar with how portmanager works and if you still want to help with testing then yes I am very interested, please let me know. -Mike > > On Sat, 25 Dec 2004, Michael C. Shultz wrote: > > > > Portupgrade has o

Re: Oooooops: make deinstall

2004-12-26 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Sunday 26 December 2004 04:51 pm, Tom Vilot wrote: > I inadvertently invoked make deinstall from /usr/ports, thinking I > was in the directory of the port I wanted to 'make deinstall && make > reinstall' > > I wasn't. > > Oops. > > I'm in the process of re-installing those ports I installed and

Re: I am new User

2004-12-25 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Friday 24 December 2004 10:45 am, pedram wrote: > Hi > > I want Learn FreeBSD but I am New in Unix Platform. > > I have MCSE and CCNA Certification and I am Administrator in an ISP > and some companies. > > I was Download FreeBSD 5.3 > > Which books or sites you suggest me to learn? > > > > Than

Re: portupgrade vs. portmanager

2004-12-25 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Saturday 25 December 2004 04:53 am, Peter Schuller wrote: > > Right now portmanager is upgrading kdelibs and I'm still using it. > > The only problem that might occur is between the > > deinstall/reinstall steps I'll be missing the libraries for about a > > minute, when this happens I just wait

Re: portupgrade vs. portmanager

2004-12-24 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Friday 24 December 2004 03:52 pm, Peter Schuller wrote: > > That is indeed the case with portmanager. Sometimes it is a waste > > of time to rebuild everthing when a dependency changes, and > > sometimes it is the right thing to do, portmanager assumes it is > > always the right thing to do. One

Re: portupgrade vs. portmanager

2004-12-24 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Friday 24 December 2004 07:54 am, RW wrote: > On Friday 24 December 2004 07:38, Michael C. Shultz wrote: > > On Thursday 23 December 2004 11:16 pm, Jay O'Brien wrote: > > > Michael C. Shultz wrote: > > > > On Thursday 23 December 2004 10:01 pm, Jay O'Brie

Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?

2004-12-24 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Friday 24 December 2004 01:09 am, Nikolas Britton wrote: [snipped] > > > >As long as the artwork does not get in the way of content, and you > > don't mess with "beastie" I say have at it if it means so much to > > you. That is sort of what FreeBSD is all about, you got an idea you > > know will

Re: portupgrade vs. portmanager

2004-12-23 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Thursday 23 December 2004 11:16 pm, Jay O'Brien wrote: > Michael C. Shultz wrote: > > On Thursday 23 December 2004 10:01 pm, Jay O'Brien wrote: > >>I'm running 5.3 RELEASE and trying to learn. I did a ports cvsup. > >>Following the Dru Lavigne article o

Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?

2004-12-23 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Thursday 23 December 2004 10:44 pm, Nikolas Britton wrote: > Michael C. Shultz wrote: > >I hate to see FreeBSD to something like my once favorite news site > >(www.antiwar.com) did. Early on they had a website that wasn't at > > all artistic, but they always had links

Re: portupgrade vs. portmanager

2004-12-23 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Thursday 23 December 2004 10:01 pm, Jay O'Brien wrote: > I'm running 5.3 RELEASE and trying to learn. I did a ports cvsup. > Following the Dru Lavigne article on portupgrade at > http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/08/28/FreeBSD_Basics.html?page=1 > I installed portupgrade and then ran portsdb

Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?

2004-12-23 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Thursday 23 December 2004 08:46 pm, Nikolas Britton wrote: > >>From a business perspective we look amateurish. > > I REALLY REALLY agree with this point, from the prospective of an > outsider the website and "Image" conveys a real lack of > professionalism, which is not true. > > I'm looking at

Re: dri install failing with portmanager

2004-12-23 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Thursday 23 December 2004 07:12 pm, you wrote: > sending the portInstalled.dri.log > > > also here is the error'ed output: > > --- snip --- > > > pmupgrade 0.2.0_3 command: #3 ( cd /tmp; pkg_create -b > xfree86-dri-4.4.0 ) > pkg_create: can't fin

Re: portmanager fails installing dri

2004-12-23 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Thursday 23 December 2004 04:56 pm, you wrote: > > Try: > > > > ls /var/db/pkg > > > > and see if you have a > > > > /var/db/pkg/apache+mod_ssl-1.3.33+2.8.22 > > > > directory, if you do then you probably ran > > > > pkg_delete apache+mod_ssl-1.3.33+2.8.22 > > > > instead of > > > > pkg_delete -

Re: portmanager fails installing apache

2004-12-23 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Thursday 23 December 2004 04:43 pm, you wrote: > > Try: > > > > ls /var/db/pkg > > > > and see if you have a > > > > /var/db/pkg/apache+mod_ssl-1.3.33+2.8.22 > > > > directory, if you do then you probably ran > > > > pkg_delete apache+mod_ssl-1.3.33+2.8.22 > > > > instead of > > > > pkg_delete -

Re: portmanager fails installing apache

2004-12-22 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Wednesday 22 December 2004 02:29 pm, Noah wrote: > On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 13:44:18 -0800, Michael C. Shultz wrote > > > On Wednesday 22 December 2004 12:38 pm, Noah wrote: > > > FreeBSD-4.9 > > > portmanager-0.2.0_3 > > > > > > > > > well I

Re: portmanager fails installing apache

2004-12-22 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Wednesday 22 December 2004 12:38 pm, Noah wrote: > FreeBSD-4.9 > portmanager-0.2.0_3 > > > well I am not able to find a specific mail list for portmanager > support. anybody got clues why portmanager is having difficulies here > and a nice cure would be helpful? > Usually people with portmanager

Re: Samba installation from ports over NFS

2004-12-22 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Wednesday 22 December 2004 10:57 am, Andrew P. wrote: > Hello! > > My /usr/ports is a network file-system. When I try to install samba 3 > it says: > > satsmb# make install > ===> samba-3.0.9,1 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/autoconf259 - > found ===> samba-3.0.9,1 depends on shared library

Re: portmanager 0.2.0 hosed - pmStatus 0.2.0_3 error: PMGRrDbCreate returned with an error

2004-12-17 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Friday 17 December 2004 11:49 am, you wrote: > > Yes, if /var/db/pkg/p5-Crypt-SSLeay-0.51 exists then get rid of it. > > I set up p5-Crypt-SSLeay-0.51on my system and portmanager got past > > it with no problem. However if after deleting that directory you > > still have the same problem I will

Re: portmanager 0.2.0 hosed - pmStatus 0.2.0_3 error: PMGRrDbCreate returned with an error

2004-12-17 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Friday 17 December 2004 08:35 am, Noah wrote: > FreeBSD-4.9 > > well I just pkg_delete p5-Crypt-SSLeay-0.51 from my machine. I have > cleared all the failing dependencies from the pkgdb and updated the > database. I dont know what else to do. > > any clues on this? > > > --- snip --- > > # por

Re: Trouble with 'portsdb -uU' and ld-elf.so...

2004-12-16 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Thursday 16 December 2004 08:07 am, Eric Schuele wrote: > Hello, > > I'm having trouble with 'portsdb -uU' > > It worked exactly twice on my machine. I was using the following > commands to upgrade all my ports: > > # cvsup -g -L 2 /root/ports-supfile > # portsdb -uU > # pkgdb -F > # portupupgr

Re: sound works with kldload, but not /boot/loader.conf?

2004-12-12 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Sunday 12 December 2004 05:28 pm, Robert William Vesterman wrote: > Hi, > > I just tried playing a WAV file using xmms (this is the first time > I've tried anything with sound on my installation). It issued a very > generic error message, telling me things like "make sure your device > is insta

Re: sound works with kldload, but not /boot/loader.conf?

2004-12-12 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Sunday 12 December 2004 08:10 pm, Adam Smith wrote: > On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 05:39:02PM -0800, Michael C. Shultz said: > > I use /usr/local/etc/rc.d/START.sh taht conatins the following: > > > > echokldload snd_driver > > kldload snd_driver > > O

Re: Find & Replace string

2004-12-09 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Thursday 09 December 2004 08:48 am, antenneX wrote: > Help on commands/script needed. > > In a website of 1.GB+ with several hundred thousand files, I need to > interrogate all files to replace a single string like "oldone.010" > with "newone.011" > > What's the best way to do this? > > Thanks i

Re: need help

2004-12-09 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Thursday 09 December 2004 01:33 am, angelito munez wrote: > Gud DAy.. > I need help regarding on my freeBSD 4.9 i have it formated and i want > to run as natting..or act as a router. ive got adsl 512kbps.. im just > new about free bsd. what packgas do i want and and a rules to run to > my existi

Re: OT: Trying to learn C -- some questions

2004-11-25 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Thursday 25 November 2004 04:38 pm, Tom Parquette wrote: > Hi. This is a little off topic but I'm hoping someone can provide > some guidance and answer a few questions. TIA. > > I'm trying to learn ANSI C using a book circa 1994. It is written > from a DOS perspective. > Someone at work, who

Re: Cannot CVSUP - permission denied.

2004-11-19 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Friday 19 November 2004 09:11 pm, robg wrote: > Hi, > > Running 5.3 and behind a firewall, tried cvsuping and spits back: > > Parsing supfile "ports-supfile" > Connecting to cvsup3.us.FreeBSD.org > Cannot connect to cvsup3.us.FreeBSD.org: Permission denied > Will retry at 00:14:51 > > People sai

Re: Installation Problems

2004-11-16 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Tuesday 16 November 2004 05:25 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > My husband purchased Free BSD. I believe it is version. 5.3. He > installed the disks and then entered his username and password. Then > when he needs to sign in he again enters his username and password > and nothing happens. He can'

Re: Stop in /usr/ports/graphics/ImageMagick

2004-11-16 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Tuesday 16 November 2004 06:32 am, John Cholewa wrote: > > ===> giFT-0.11.6 depends on shared library: Magick.6 - not found > > ===>Verifying install for Magick.6 in > > /usr/ports/graphics/ImageMagick > > > > ===> ImageMagick-6.0.6.2 has known vulnerabilities: > > >> ImageMagick -- EXIF

Re: Finding options for ports

2004-11-15 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Monday 15 November 2004 01:29 pm, Frank Laszlo wrote: > Michael C. Shultz wrote: > >On Monday 15 November 2004 12:18 pm, Kill the Penguin wrote: > >>I've ran into this sort of problem from time to time. How do you > >> find and specify options in those ports

Re: Finding options for ports

2004-11-15 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Monday 15 November 2004 12:18 pm, Kill the Penguin wrote: > I've ran into this sort of problem from time to time. How do you find > and specify options in those ports that don't present a banner. For > example, the php4 port has many options listed in the Makefile.ext > file, but it's not clear

Re: nATd

2004-11-01 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Monday 01 November 2004 09:28 pm, sonjaya wrote: > Dear all > > i ussually use iptables for NAT in my linux box , but > in freebsd i newbies , how to configure freebsd be NAT > server , i search i get 3 option : > 1.use ipfw > 2.use NATD > 3.use ipnat > > how to use that all with whis network :

Re: portupgrade core dump fix?

2004-11-01 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Monday 01 November 2004 08:36 pm, dave wrote: > Hello, > New install of a 5.2.1 system, ports tree cvsupped to the latest. > I was wondering if the problem with pkgdb core dumping with > portupgrade is still occurring? If so, is there another port > maintence tool equivalent? I was really no

Re: Question about ISO filesystems and CD-R's

2004-11-01 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Monday 01 November 2004 06:29 pm, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > Question: If I have an iso image smaller than the CD-R I am burning > it to, what happens to that extra space? Is it useless? Can I burn > another iso fs to it later, overwriting the first? > > jm The extra space on a CD-R is useles

Re: Problems compiling mplayer from ports

2004-11-01 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Monday 01 November 2004 06:41 am, Spiral Eyed Girl wrote: > Hello, I am having problems compiling mplayer. I did a cvsup about 2 > weeks ago, and just now tried to install mplayer. I did a "make > install" in the mplayer ports dir, and got this message after a > while: > > /usr/bin/ld: warning:

Re: Can somebody explain how the autotools are configured in FreeBSD 4.10?

2004-09-29 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Tuesday 28 September 2004 11:40 am, Gabriel O'Brien wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm hoping somebody can explain to me how to use the autotools (automake, > autoconf, libtool, etc.) in FreeBSD 4.10 because plainly I'm doing > something quite wrong. > > I am trying to build turck-mmcache-2.4.6 with PHP 4

Re: Help me please: I'm confused about remote log-in.

2004-09-25 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Friday 24 September 2004 09:45 pm, Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote: > Good day!!! > My home pc is obtaining an internet connection > through a dial-up modem. And as for this, I'm using > ppp. On my analysis, the ppp program residing in my pc > is connecting to some sort of an authenticating > serv

Re: hi

2004-09-13 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Monday 13 September 2004 3:11 pm, A W wrote: > hello i was wondering if u could answer the following questions > > 1) is it possible to have both freebsd 5.2.1 with KDE 3.1 and Windows 98 on > the same Hard Disk. If yes how can i do this? > > 2) can i run .exe files with KDE 3.1 because when i l

Re: Portmanager Crash

2004-08-27 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Friday 27 August 2004 6:54 am, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 05:26:47AM -0400, Gerard Seibert wrote: > > I followed Matthew Seaman's instructions, except that there was no > > 'portmanager.core' file created. The file that was created was > > 'pmStatus.core'. I assume that is t

Re: Portmanager Crash

2004-08-27 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Friday 27 August 2004 6:54 am, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 05:26:47AM -0400, Gerard Seibert wrote: > > I followed Matthew Seaman's instructions, except that there was no > > 'portmanager.core' file created. The file that was created was > > 'pmStatus.core'. I assume that is t

Re: RELENG tags

2004-08-22 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Sunday 22 August 2004 5:19 pm, Chris wrote: > RELENG_5 ought to get me the Beta1 code, correct? http://www.freebsd.org/releng/index.html ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, se

Re: stale dependencies

2004-08-21 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Saturday 21 August 2004 2:22 am, Mark Withers wrote: > Hello everyone! > > I've been using FBSD for a few years now, but am not > sure as to what a 'stale dependency' is... > > I am receiving an error message with ymessenger pkg > that it has stale dependencies and to use 'pkgdb -F' > to fix or

Re: what's wrong with my ports???

2004-08-11 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Wednesday 11 August 2004 05:43 pm, Duane Winner wrote: > Will wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Duane Winner wrote: > > | Hello all, > > | > > | This problem has been recurring on my laptop (5.2.1-RELEASE-p9) for the > > | past few weeks and I'm scratching my h

Re: package management documentation

2004-08-11 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Wednesday 11 August 2004 07:23 pm, Peter Ryan wrote: > How did everyone here find out > about the various utitilities > available for managing ports and > packages ? > > I realised the lack of answers to > my recent questions about KDE nad > openldap meant that it was > generally felt that i sho

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