On Fri, 20 May 2011, Polytropon wrote:
However, I think increasing the default size to 1GB for /
would be a nice addition for the next release
That was recently implemented, maybe even for 8.2. It was in there the
last time I ran sysinstall, anyway. 8-)
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On Fri, 20 May 2011 11:36:37 -0400, Chris Brennan wrote:
> I will modify my kernel config to reflect that change and I was going to
> make a backup ... I'm using the same config from 7.x, only slightly modified
> to reflect this machine, that said, how do I clobber the current kernel and
> not bac
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 11:23 AM, Polytropon wrote:
On Fri, 20 May 2011 10:26:01 -0400, Chris Brennan
> wrote:
> > OK, I am off now to research how to build the kernel w/o debugging
> symbols
> > ... then I shall embark on this.
>
> It should be "makeoptions DEBUG=-g" _NOT_ being present
> in th
On Fri, 20 May 2011 10:26:01 -0400, Chris Brennan wrote:
> OK, I am off now to research how to build the kernel w/o debugging symbols
> ... then I shall embark on this.
It should be "makeoptions DEBUG=-g" _NOT_ being present
in the config file. Another idea would be to omit the
backup of the old
On Fri, 20 May 2011 12:09:43 +0200, Bas Smeelen wrote:
> It can fit, however don't build the kernel with debug symbols and move or
> remove the current debug symbol files of your kernel.
>
> See below, our development box. It has GENERIC with debug symbol files, a
> kernel.old and a kernel withou
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 10:18 AM, Polytropon wrote:
On Thu, 19 May 2011 21:58:13 -0400, Chris Brennan
> wrote:
> > One last question ... hopefully lol. am I going to run into any issues w/
> > the default fbsd6 layout?
> >
> > [root@Ziggy [~]# df -h
> > Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capaci
On Thu, 19 May 2011 21:58:13 -0400, Chris Brennan wrote:
> One last question ... hopefully lol. am I going to run into any issues w/
> the default fbsd6 layout?
>
> [root@Ziggy [~]# df -h
> Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on
> /dev/ad0s1a496M328M128M72%/
On 05/20/2011 03:58 AM, Chris Brennan wrote:
> On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 5:04 PM, Polytropon wrote:
>
> Yes, the recommended order. :-)
> One last question ... hopefully lol. am I going to run into any issues w/
> the default fbsd6 layout?
>
> [root@Ziggy [~]# df -h
> Filesystem SizeUsed A
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 5:04 PM, Polytropon wrote:
Yes, the recommended order. :-)
>
> First, update your ports/ and src/ trees (e. g. using portsnap
> and csup), then compile and install. You don't need any tools
> provided by ports for this task. After you've started your
> "new" system, instal
On Thu, 19 May 2011 16:47:26 -0400, Chris Brennan wrote:
> After much thought, I think my process would be this:
>
> chsh back to bin/sh (I currently use bash as my primary shell)
> logout back in for shell change
> pkg_delete -fravd
> get new base srcs
> portsnap
> (re)install desired tools (vim
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 4:40 PM, Polytropon wrote:
I would advice to do so, no matter what the pkg_delete
> command will cause. If I remember correctly, MODYFIED
> files will not be touched (checksum test), and a directory
> won't be removed if it contains something that won't
> be deleted accord
On Thu, 19 May 2011 16:29:41 -0400, Chris Brennan wrote:
> If I go the way of pkg_delete -fravd, will it save configs in
> /usr/local/etc/ ? I just need to know if I need to take the extra step to
> archive that directory beforehand or not
I would advice to do so, no matter what the pkg_delet
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Jerry wrote:
Yes, from the man pages it states it will rebuild all packages and their
> dependencies. I simply include the "l" so he would have a log file
> available if something did go wrong.
>
> In any case, I thought it might save him some trouble rebuilding hi
On Wed, 04 May 2011 22:51:05 +0100
Chris Whitehouse articulated:
> I second Jerry, portmanager is indeed a very effective tool, it's
> simple and thorough and probably has as good a chance of fixing ports
> issues as anything. Or used to, I've been trying out tinderbox so
> haven't used it for a
On 04/05/2011 20:53, Chris Brennan wrote:
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Jerry wrote:
Chris, when I have had to do major rebuilds, I have found
"portmanager" to be the best tool. It just seems to work. In any case,
if it were me, I would clean out the /usr/ports/distfiles directory,
update yo
On 4 May 2011 15:54, Chris Brennan wrote:
> On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 2:40 PM, ill...@gmail.com wrote:
>>
>> On 4 May 2011 12:50, Chris Brennan wrote:
>> > is it safe to nuke /usr/local (excluding /usr/local/home), rebuild
>> > world/kernel for 8.2 and start with a fresh ports tree?
>>
>> Yes, th
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 2:40 PM, ill...@gmail.com wrote:
> On 4 May 2011 12:50, Chris Brennan wrote:
> > is it safe to nuke /usr/local (excluding /usr/local/home), rebuild
> > world/kernel for 8.2 and start with a fresh ports tree?
>
> Yes, though pkg_delete -af will probably suffice for removi
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Jerry wrote:
Chris, when I have had to do major rebuilds, I have found
> "portmanager" to be the best tool. It just seems to work. In any case,
> if it were me, I would clean out the /usr/ports/distfiles directory,
> update your ports tree, and then update you OS.
On 4 May 2011 12:50, Chris Brennan wrote:
> is it safe to nuke /usr/local (excluding /usr/local/home), rebuild
> world/kernel for 8.2 and start with a fresh ports tree?
Yes, though pkg_delete -af will probably suffice for removing
the ports (& /var/db/pkg/ as well).
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On Wed, 4 May 2011 12:50:05 -0400
Chris Brennan articulated:
> I have an old PIII running FreeBSD7.3 currently, ports is all kinds of
> screwed up, when I did my first cross-version upgrade from 6.x to
> 7.x, I didn't know I had to rebuild ports, I subsequently upgrades
> though every version upt
On Wed 2011-05-04 12:50:05 UTC-0400, Chris Brennan (xa...@xaerolimit.net) wrote:
> I have an old PIII running FreeBSD7.3 currently, ports is all kinds of
> screwed up, when I did my first cross-version upgrade from 6.x to 7.x, I
> didn't know I had to rebuild ports, I subsequently upgrades though
I have an old PIII running FreeBSD7.3 currently, ports is all kinds of
screwed up, when I did my first cross-version upgrade from 6.x to 7.x, I
didn't know I had to rebuild ports, I subsequently upgrades though every
version upto to 7.3. Ports is still FUBAR, half of them no longer work. So
my ques
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