The ports are really funcional?

2011-10-30 Thread Zantgo
What happens is that I tried to install things on the ports, but almost no one serves me, I've only been able to install firefox, I tried also install KDE, GNOME and KFCE, but I have been many errors, commonly solocionables, for example I had to modify REFRESH to true, but also to get out other

Re: The ports are really funcional?

2011-10-30 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 30 Oct 2011, Zantgo wrote: What happens is that I tried to install things on the ports, but almost no one serves me, I've only been able to install firefox, I tried also install KDE, GNOME and KFCE, but I have been many errors, commonly solocionables, for example I had to modify

Re: The ports are really funcional?

2011-10-30 Thread Zantgo
El 30-10-2011, a las 19:55, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com escribió: On Sun, 30 Oct 2011, Zantgo wrote: What happens is that I tried to install things on the ports, but almost no one serves me, I've only been able to install firefox, I tried also install KDE, GNOME and KFCE, but I have

Re: The ports are really funcional?

2011-10-30 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 30 Oct 2011, Zantgo wrote: El 30-10-2011, a las 19:55, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com escribi?: On Sun, 30 Oct 2011, Zantgo wrote: What happens is that I tried to install things on the ports, but almost no one serves me, I've only been able to install firefox, I tried also install

Re: The ports are really funcional?

2011-10-30 Thread Neal Hogan
happens is that I tried to install things on the ports, but almost no one serves me, I've only been able to install firefox, I tried also install KDE, GNOME and KFCE, but I have been many errors, commonly solocionables, for example I had to modify REFRESH to true, but also to get out other errors

Re: The ports are really funcional?

2011-10-30 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 30 Oct 2011 18:19:16 -0300, Zantgo wrote: What happens is that I tried to install things on the ports, but almost no one serves me, I've only been able to install firefox, I tried also install KDE, GNOME and KFCE, but I have been many errors, commonly solocionables, for example I had

Re: The ports are really funcional?

2011-10-30 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 5:19 PM, Zantgo zan...@gmail.com wrote: What happens is that I tried to install things on the ports, but almost no one serves me, I've only been able to install firefox, I tried also install KDE, GNOME and KFCE, but I have been many errors, commonly solocionables

Re: The ports are really funcional?

2011-10-30 Thread Polytropon
and optimize to your needs then use the ports system. FBSD is so cool that it doesn't matter if you install one way or the other and you can use almost all methods interchangeably. A managament tool (such as portmaster or portupgrade) helps to keep an eye on dependencies when using the many possible

Re: rsync and the ports tree

2011-10-28 Thread Peter Kryszkiewicz
Sounds like a well-thought out backup strategy. I've started to use your methods here, and I'm building ports I need at the same time, but the wireless here is not password protected so is incredibly slow as there are lots of leaches on the system. But while I'm plodding along, I have a few more

rsync and the ports tree

2011-10-26 Thread Peter Kryszkiewicz
I have several machines installed in my temporary location and only my laptop gets the internet through wireless. So far I've been building ports on the other machines by rsync'ing the distfiles from the laptop as I need them (all machines have the same FreeBSD 8.2 installed). The problem comes

Re: rsync and the ports tree

2011-10-26 Thread Christer Solskogen
On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Peter Kryszkiewicz tundra2b...@gmail.com wrote: I have several machines installed in my temporary location and only my laptop gets the internet through wireless. So far I've been building ports on the other machines by rsync'ing the distfiles from the laptop

Re: rsync and the ports tree

2011-10-26 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Peter Kryszkiewicz tundra2b...@gmail.com wrote: I have several machines installed in my temporary location and only my laptop gets the internet through wireless. So far I've been building ports on the other machines by rsync'ing the distfiles from the laptop

Re: which ports require dialog during update

2011-10-24 Thread Thomas Mueller
the config dialogs. The configuration option to save those logs is in the portmaster man page. NetBSD pkgsrc, which has been ported to other mostly (quasi-)Unix OSes as well, has a better way: putting options in /etc/mk.conf : not to say NetBSD pkgsrc is better than FreeBSD ports system, just

Re: which ports require dialog during update

2011-10-24 Thread Doug Barton
On 10/24/2011 01:57, Thomas Mueller wrote: So would portmaster give me a similar log file without conio and stdio going to war with each other? To the extent that I understand your question, I think portmaster can help. Why don't you install it, read the man page, and give it a try. Doug

Re: which ports require dialog during update

2011-10-23 Thread Thomas Mueller
is better than FreeBSD ports system, just that they have a good idea in this aspect. Tom ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions

Re: which ports require dialog during update

2011-10-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 23/10/2011 10:48, Thomas Mueller wrote: NetBSD pkgsrc, which has been ported to other mostly (quasi-)Unix OSes as well, has a better way: putting options in /etc/mk.conf : not to say NetBSD pkgsrc is better than FreeBSD ports system, just that they have a good idea in this aspect

Re: which ports require dialog during update

2011-10-23 Thread Doug Barton
been ported to other mostly (quasi-)Unix OSes as well, has a better way: putting options in /etc/mk.conf : not to say NetBSD pkgsrc is better than FreeBSD ports system, just that they have a good idea in this aspect. You might want to look at ports-mgmt/portconf. In many ways the OPTIONS dialog

which ports require dialog during update

2011-10-21 Thread Paul Macdonald
Hi, Is there a way to tell which ports might require dialog input during update, i have some auto update scripts which when prompted will run through updates, but occassionally i forget which will require user input and this leads to dialog running ( often @ 100%) until i notice. Obviously

Re: which ports require dialog during update

2011-10-21 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 10/21/11 9:53 AM, Paul Macdonald wrote: Hi, Is there a way to tell which ports might require dialog input during update, i have some auto update scripts Stop doing this. Your update scripts do not read /usr/ports/UPDATING. Your update scripts do not read package changelogs. What

Re: which ports require dialog during update

2011-10-21 Thread Paul Macdonald
Hi, Is there a way to tell which ports might require dialog input during update, i have some auto update scripts Stop doing this. Your update scripts do not read /usr/ports/UPDATING. Your update scripts do not read package changelogs. What you're doing is irresponsible, and potentially

Re: which ports require dialog during update

2011-10-21 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 10/21/11 11:14 AM, Paul Macdonald wrote: Hi, Is there a way to tell which ports might require dialog input during update, i have some auto update scripts Stop doing this. Your update scripts do not read /usr/ports/UPDATING. Your update scripts do not read package changelogs. What

Re: which ports require dialog during update

2011-10-21 Thread kron24
On 2011/10/21 11:21, Damien Fleuriot wrote: On 10/21/11 11:14 AM, Paul Macdonald wrote: Hi, Is there a way to tell which ports might require dialog input during update, i have some auto update scripts Stop doing this. Your update scripts do not read /usr/ports/UPDATING. Your update scripts

Re: which ports require dialog during update

2011-10-21 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 21 Oct 2011, Paul Macdonald wrote: Can i programmatically tell if user input is required? It might require reinventing the logic used by the ports system Makefiles. Or maybe there's a way to run make config-recursive but get dialog to immediately cancel any config screens

Re: which ports require dialog during update

2011-10-21 Thread Galati, Michael
 Hi, Is there a way to tell which ports might require dialog input during update, i have some auto update scripts Stop doing this. Your update scripts do not read /usr/ports/UPDATING. Your update scripts do not read package changelogs. What you're doing is irresponsible

Re: which ports require dialog during update

2011-10-21 Thread Open Slate
Not exactly an answer to your question, but I use the batch flag to bypass configuration menus. If you have one or two ports you do not install with default settings, you can go back and install manually. On Oct 20, 2011 9:54 PM, Paul Macdonald p...@ifdnrg.com wrote: Hi, Is there a way to tell

Re: which ports require dialog during update

2011-10-21 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 21 Oct 2011, Galati, Michael wrote: Unfortunately, there's no good way of upgrading packages on FreeBSD (that I'm aware of, at least). My solution (crude as it may be) has been to remove all the packages and reinstall. There's pkg_upgrade from sysutils/bsdadminscripts.

Re: ports/distfiles via NFS or SSH

2011-10-15 Thread Lowell Gilbert
tried to mount the ports tree on this machine to the other machines (machine mfc for instance) with: #mfc cd /usr #mfc mount_nfs vbear:/usr/ports ports and then installing the needed port on mfc. What happens is that the working directories and the entire local ports tree gets written

ports/distfiles via NFS or SSH

2011-10-13 Thread Peter Kryszkiewicz
I have several machines networked using NFS mounts or SSH and scp. Only one machine has internet connectivity - a laptop (machine vbear) with a wireless card (I'm in a temporary location for a few weeks and only wireless is available here). I tried to mount the ports tree on this machine

Re: Trying to build Nessus 4 from ports

2011-09-26 Thread Michael D. Norwick
On 09/25/11 10:08, Trond Endrestøl wrote: On Sat, 24 Sep 2011 23:24+0200, Andrei Brezan wrote: On 23/09/2011 23:31, Michael D. Norwick wrote: Good Day Trying to build /usr/ports/security/nessus on FreeBSD 9-beta2 with ports updated via - portsnap fetch update - completed 09/22/2011

Re: Trying to build Nessus 4 from ports

2011-09-26 Thread Mike Clarke
On Monday 26 September 2011, Michael D. Norwick wrote: Still no joy trying to build from source via ports or installing the binary from tenable.com on FreeBSD 9.  nessusd is installed but errors out with 'libz.so.5 not found.  I have; $ ls -l /lib/libz.* -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  90328 Sep

Re: Trying to build Nessus 4 from ports

2011-09-26 Thread Michael D. Norwick
On 09/26/11 06:43, Mike Clarke wrote: On Monday 26 September 2011, Michael D. Norwick wrote: Still no joy trying to build from source via ports or installing the binary from tenable.com on FreeBSD 9. nessusd is installed but errors out with 'libz.so.5 not found. I have; $ ls -l /lib/libz

Re: Trying to build Nessus 4 from ports

2011-09-25 Thread Trond Endrestøl
On Sat, 24 Sep 2011 23:24+0200, Andrei Brezan wrote: On 23/09/2011 23:31, Michael D. Norwick wrote: Good Day Trying to build /usr/ports/security/nessus on FreeBSD 9-beta2 with ports updated via - portsnap fetch update - completed 09/22/2011. The result from #make; === Applying

Re: Trying to build Nessus 4 from ports

2011-09-24 Thread Andrei Brezan
On 23/09/2011 23:31, Michael D. Norwick wrote: Good Day Trying to build /usr/ports/security/nessus on FreeBSD 9-beta2 with ports updated via - portsnap fetch update - completed 09/22/2011. The result from #make; === Applying FreeBSD patches for nessus-libraries-2.2.9_1 === nessus

Trying to build Nessus 4 from ports

2011-09-23 Thread Michael D. Norwick
Good Day Trying to build /usr/ports/security/nessus on FreeBSD 9-beta2 with ports updated via - portsnap fetch update - completed 09/22/2011. The result from #make; === Applying FreeBSD patches for nessus-libraries-2.2.9_1 === nessus-libraries-2.2.9_1 depends on executable: bison - found

Re: Using ports and packages together (or, how do I get mod_php5 ? )

2011-09-20 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 20/09/2011 05:33, Jason C. Wells wrote: I noticed only recently that there are now packages on FTP in a folder called packages-8-stable. I am not sure how often these are built. I expect that the entire ports tree is built much like it is during a release, except at some later point

Re: Using ports and packages together (or, how do I get mod_php5 ? )

2011-09-20 Thread Jason C. Wells
On 09/20/11 01:23, Matthew Seaman wrote: 'Latest' packages are built for each updated port + OS version + architecture combination whenever resources are available on the build cluster. Typically that implies a delay of a few days or a week or so after the update hits the ports CVS. Yes

Using ports and packages together (or, how do I get mod_php5 ? )

2011-09-19 Thread Brandon Kuczenski
Hi, I'm running RELENG_8_2 and I've been using packages instead of ports for most things, because they're so much quicker. But certain packages aren't compiled the way I need them to be-- postfix had no TLS or SASL support, for example, so I built it from the port. However

Re: Using ports and packages together (or, how do I get mod_php5 ? )

2011-09-19 Thread Lars Eighner
On Mon, 19 Sep 2011, Brandon Kuczenski wrote: I'm concerned that, if I have some packages built from ports and some installed from the release, that the system will become unstable if things get too out of sync. I'd like to say it doesn't matter, but ... If you are using packages from

Re: Using ports and packages together (or, how do I get mod_php5 ? )

2011-09-19 Thread Jason C. Wells
On 09/19/11 13:56, Lars Eighner wrote: On Mon, 19 Sep 2011, Brandon Kuczenski wrote: I'm concerned that, if I have some packages built from ports and some installed from the release, that the system will become unstable if things get too out of sync. I noticed only recently

Re: Using ports and packages together (or, how do I get mod_php5 ? )

2011-09-19 Thread Jason C. Wells
On 09/19/11 13:56, Lars Eighner wrote: On Mon, 19 Sep 2011, Brandon Kuczenski wrote: I'm concerned that, if I have some packages built from ports and some installed from the release, that the system will become unstable if things get too out of sync. Doh, I just read the handbook. http

a portmaster/ports question

2011-09-18 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Is there any way to get portmaster to reinstall every port in the *EXACT* same order they where installed in, preferably with out any knowledge of what ports where installed after the current one was the reason for asking is many times it seems that subtle incompatibilities solely due

Date Ports Installed or Install Log

2011-09-04 Thread Richard Collyer
on this headless server so I'd like to tidy them up. Is there a way of finding out what date/order ports have been installed or is the output that is sent over ssh logged anywhere so I can trace back and find out what packages I need to nerf. I've run cutleaves and portmaster to show ports that have

Re: Date Ports Installed or Install Log

2011-09-04 Thread Matthew Seaman
related) that I don't need on this headless server so I'd like to tidy them up. Is there a way of finding out what date/order ports have been installed or is the output that is sent over ssh logged anywhere so I can trace back and find out what packages I need to nerf. Look at the file

Re: Date Ports Installed or Install Log

2011-09-04 Thread Richard Collyer
a fair number of packaged (mostly X11 related) that I don't need on this headless server so I'd like to tidy them up. Is there a way of finding out what date/order ports have been installed or is the output that is sent over ssh logged anywhere so I can trace back and find out what packages I need

Re: Date Ports Installed or Install Log

2011-09-04 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 04/09/2011 12:09, Richard Collyer wrote: Just incase anyone else reads this for a solution I think the cd /usr/ports/packages line near the bottom was a typo and should have been /var/db/pkg Yes. Dammit. One of these days I'll perfect the art of writing down exactly what I want to say

trouble with ports

2011-08-20 Thread Chip Camden
-9.11' is corrupt This prevents 'portmaster -a' from working at all, and 'portupgrade -a' will not detect changes to those ports whose info is corrupt. Neither does portversion report on those ports (it acts like they aren't installed). I've found that the problem can be corrected by going

Re: make readmes no longer builds individual ports' README.html files?

2011-08-12 Thread Emanuel Haupt
Conrad J. Sabatier conr...@cox.net wrote: Having been away from FreeBSD for a while, I'm still catching up with all the changes that took place while I was on hiatus, so bear with me here. :-) Trying to construct the ports' README.html files with: cd /usr/ports make readmes Much

ports make search not working in jails

2011-08-11 Thread Alejandro Imass
Hi, I have been using Jails and EzJail for a while now and everything works perfectly except for make search in the ports collection insisde a jail. Otherwise the ports provided by the basejail works perfectly but I get this error when I try make search: The search target requires INDEX-8

Re: ports make search not working in jails

2011-08-11 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 10:15 AM, Alejandro Imass a...@p2ee.org wrote: Hi, I have been using Jails and EzJail for a while now and everything works perfectly except for make search in the ports collection insisde a jail. Never mind. It's a specific couple of jails that doesn't work and I

Re: ports make search not working in jails

2011-08-11 Thread Jason Helfman
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 11:05:14AM -0400, Alejandro Imass thus spake: On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 10:15 AM, Alejandro Imass a...@p2ee.org wrote: Hi, I have been using Jails and EzJail for a while now and everything works perfectly except for make search in the ports collection insisde a jail

Re: ports make search not working in jails

2011-08-11 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 7:38 PM, Jason Helfman jhelf...@e-e.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 11:05:14AM -0400, Alejandro Imass thus spake: On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 10:15 AM, Alejandro Imass a...@p2ee.org wrote: [...] Never mind. It's a specific couple of jails that doesn't work and I never

Re: make readmes no longer builds individual ports' README.html files?

2011-08-09 Thread RW
On Mon, 8 Aug 2011 22:35:35 -0500 Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: Having been away from FreeBSD for a while, I'm still catching up with all the changes that took place while I was on hiatus, so bear with me here. :-) Trying to construct the ports' README.html files with: cd /usr/ports make

make readmes no longer builds individual ports' README.html files?

2011-08-08 Thread Conrad J. Sabatier
Having been away from FreeBSD for a while, I'm still catching up with all the changes that took place while I was on hiatus, so bear with me here. :-) Trying to construct the ports' README.html files with: cd /usr/ports make readmes Much to my surprise, this only creates README.html at the top

Re: gmake[4]: *** [Gdk-2.0.gir] Error 127 = updating gtk to latest on ports

2011-08-05 Thread Antonio Olivares
. No updates needed. Ports tree is already up to date.        === New version available: gtk-2.24.5_1 === 537 total installed ports        === 1 has a new version available ran # portmaster -a Always (yes, always) check /usr/ports/UPDATING before throwing any automatic update

gmake[4]: *** [Gdk-2.0.gir] Error 127 = updating gtk to latest on ports

2011-08-04 Thread Antonio Olivares
snapshot on server matches what we already have. No updates needed. Ports tree is already up to date. === New version available: gtk-2.24.5_1 === 537 total installed ports === 1 has a new version available ran # portmaster -a * removed to save space ** ual-x11.c

Re: gmake[4]: *** [Gdk-2.0.gir] Error 127 = updating gtk to latest on ports

2011-08-04 Thread Warren Block
portsnap5.FreeBSD.org... done. Latest snapshot on server matches what we already have. No updates needed. Ports tree is already up to date. === New version available: gtk-2.24.5_1 === 537 total installed ports === 1 has a new version available ran # portmaster -a Always (yes, always

Re: gmake[4]: *** [Gdk-2.0.gir] Error 127 = updating gtk to latest on ports

2011-08-04 Thread Antonio Olivares
# . Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 5 mirrors found. Fetching snapshot tag from portsnap5.FreeBSD.org... done. Latest snapshot on server matches what we already have. No updates needed. Ports tree is already up to date.        === New version available: gtk-2.24.5_1 === 537 total installed

SOLVED! Re: gmake[4]: *** [Gdk-2.0.gir] Error 127 = updating gtk to latest on ports

2011-08-04 Thread Antonio Olivares
them.  Encountered a problem with gtk : /* Commands run */ quadcore# . Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 5 mirrors found. Fetching snapshot tag from portsnap5.FreeBSD.org... done. Latest snapshot on server matches what we already have. No updates needed. Ports tree is already up

Re: gmake[4]: *** [Gdk-2.0.gir] Error 127 = updating gtk to latest on ports

2011-08-04 Thread Dan Nelson
with gtk : /* Commands run */ quadcore# . Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 5 mirrors found. Fetching snapshot tag from portsnap5.FreeBSD.org... done. Latest snapshot on server matches what we already have. No updates needed. Ports tree is already up to date.        === New

forcing TLS auth in /usr/ports/qmail-tls install

2011-08-01 Thread Foo JH
Hi all, Not sure if this is the right spot to ask, but it seems to be particularly pertaining to FreeBSD installations. So here I am. I'm trying to install qmail-tls. The installation is successful - almost right out of the ports. Now I'm trying configure qmail such that only TLS auth

FULLY SOLVED Re: problems with mplayer teTeX-base after updating ports

2011-07-30 Thread Antonio Olivares
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 10:29 PM, Antonio Olivares olivares14...@gmail.com wrote: @All I have solved the problem with TeTeX.  I had to remove symlinks to files created by texlive manually and reinstall the ports one at a time and I am back.  Sorry for the noise. BTW, I figured out that I

problems with mplayer teTeX-base after updating ports

2011-07-29 Thread Antonio Olivares
Dear folks, I have successfully updated most ports, but having problems with mplayer: /usr/local/live/BasicUsageEnvironment/libBasicUsageEnvironment.a -L/usr/local/lib -rpath=/usr/lib:/usr/local/lib -liconv -lncurses -lpng -lz -ljpeg -lungif -lcdda_interface

Re: problems with mplayer teTeX-base after updating ports

2011-07-29 Thread Antonio Olivares
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 3:55 PM, Antonio Olivares olivares14...@gmail.com wrote: Dear folks, I have successfully updated most ports, but having problems with mplayer:      /usr/local/live/BasicUsageEnvironment/libBasicUsageEnvironment.a                  -L/usr/local/lib  -rpath=/usr/lib:/usr

Re: problems with mplayer teTeX-base after updating ports

2011-07-29 Thread Antonio Olivares
/* removed not needed */ test -r /usr/local/info//dir || install -o root -g wheel -m 444 ./../dir /usr/local/info/ install: /usr/local/info//dir: No such file or directory gmake[2]: *** [install-data] Error 71 gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/print/teTeX-base/work/tetex-src-3.0/texk/kpathsea

Re: problems with mplayer teTeX-base after updating ports(SOLVED)

2011-07-29 Thread Antonio Olivares
@All I have solved the problem with TeTeX. I had to remove symlinks to files created by texlive manually and reinstall the ports one at a time and I am back. Sorry for the noise. BTW, I figured out that I needed /usr/ports/print/latex-pgf/ for the diffyqs.tar.gz (Differential Equations Book

recommend vrml viewer from ports

2011-07-26 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
Can somebody recommend a vrml viewer from ports, other than www/openvrml? -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423

Re: build ports from not a root user?

2011-07-22 Thread Mike Clarke
-' is omitted from the ports. And it is about the security. But this requires /usr/ports to be writable by the non-root user and creates a security risk. This cannot be overcome by limiting the installation to root only because you can no longer be sure that the source or installation scripts

Re: build ports from not a root user?

2011-07-22 Thread Polytropon
/tarball-expanded-0.x.y     # make install That important 'su -' is omitted from the ports. And it is about the security. But this requires /usr/ports to be writable by the non-root user and creates a security risk. This cannot be overcome by limiting the installation to root only

build ports from not a root user?

2011-07-21 Thread Peter Vereshagin
Oh freebsd-questions want you buy me a mersedes benz? I'd like to build my ports from not a root user. How can I tell the ports system that it should su ( switch user ) before to build the dependencies? Can portupgrade handle this? Dependencies should be installed from a root user. Thank you

Re: build ports from not a root user?

2011-07-21 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 7/21/11 12:02 PM, Peter Vereshagin wrote: Oh freebsd-questions want you buy me a mersedes benz? What the f... ? I'd like to build my ports from not a root user. That is possible but exceedingly highly inconvenient. What is the reason for doing that ? I can not come up with a scenario

Re: build ports from not a root user?

2011-07-21 Thread Daniel Staal
On Thu, July 21, 2011 6:02 am, Peter Vereshagin wrote: I'd like to build my ports from not a root user. How can I tell the ports system that it should su ( switch user ) before to build the dependencies? Can portupgrade handle this? Dependencies should be installed from a root user

Re: build ports from not a root user?

2011-07-21 Thread Peter Vereshagin
Oh freebsd-questions want you buy me a mersedes benz? 2011/07/21 16:53:58 +0200 Damien Fleuriot m...@my.gd = To freebsd-questions@freebsd.org : DF What the f... ? favorite song lyrics, np. DF I'd like to build my ports from not a root user. DF DF That is possible but exceedingly highly

Re: build ports from not a root user?

2011-07-21 Thread Peter Vereshagin
You'll never silence the voice of the voiceless, freebsd-questions! 2011/07/21 11:04:57 -0400 Daniel Staal dst...@usa.net = To freebsd-questions@freebsd.org : DS I'd like to build my ports from not a root user. DS How can I tell the ports system that it should su ( switch user ) before DS

Re: build ports from not a root user?

2011-07-21 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 7/21/11 5:19 PM, Peter Vereshagin wrote: Oh freebsd-questions want you buy me a mersedes benz? 2011/07/21 16:53:58 +0200 Damien Fleuriot m...@my.gd = To freebsd-questions@freebsd.org : DF I'd like to build my ports from not a root user. DF DF That is possible but exceedingly highly

Re: build ports from not a root user?

2011-07-21 Thread Peter Vereshagin
...@my.gd = To freebsd-questions@freebsd.org : DF DF DF I'd like to build my ports from not a root user. DF DF DF DF That is possible but exceedingly highly inconvenient. DF DF What is the reason for doing that ? DF DF Security. Because of the limitations the non-root user can have. DF

Re: build ports from not a root user?

2011-07-21 Thread Damien Fleuriot
? DF 2011/07/21 16:53:58 +0200 Damien Fleuriot m...@my.gd = To freebsd-questions@freebsd.org : DF DF DF I'd like to build my ports from not a root user. DF DF DF DF That is possible but exceedingly highly inconvenient. DF DF What is the reason for doing that ? DF DF Security

Re: build ports from not a root user?

2011-07-21 Thread Daniel Staal
On Thu, July 21, 2011 11:30 am, Peter Vereshagin wrote: You'll never silence the voice of the voiceless, freebsd-questions! 2011/07/21 11:04:57 -0400 Daniel Staal dst...@usa.net = To freebsd-questions@freebsd.org : DS I'd like to build my ports from not a root user. DS How can I tell

Re: build ports from not a root user?

2011-07-21 Thread Peter Vereshagin
ports from not a root user. DF DF DF DF DF DF That is possible but exceedingly highly inconvenient. DF DF DF What is the reason for doing that ? DF DF DF DF Security. Because of the limitations the non-root user can have. DF DF This should decrease the probability of the bad port

Re: build ports from not a root user?

2011-07-21 Thread Daniel Staal
of the voiceless, freebsd-questions! DS 2011/07/21 11:04:57 -0400 Daniel Staal dst...@usa.net = To DS freebsd-questions@freebsd.org : DS DS I'd like to build my ports from not a root user. DS DS How can I tell the ports system that it should su ( switch user ) DS before DS DS to DS DS

Re: build ports from not a root user?

2011-07-21 Thread Daniel Staal
On Thu, July 21, 2011 2:26 pm, Peter Vereshagin wrote: Oh Daniel want you buy me a mersedes benz? 2011/07/21 14:01:04 -0400 Daniel Staal dst...@usa.net = To freebsd-questions@freebsd.org : DS Ok, then I've already answered your question several emails ago. The DS ports system will do

Re: build ports from not a root user?

2011-07-21 Thread Bruce Cran
ago. The DS ports system will do this automatically with a simple 'make', 'make DS install', or 'make depends; make install'. And you said you knew about No it doesn't. 'all' target includes 'depends' target. 'depends' target includes performing 'make install' on the dependencies which I'd

Re: build ports from not a root user?

2011-07-21 Thread Peter Vereshagin
Oh freebsd-questions want you buy me a mersedes benz? 2011/07/21 19:39:45 +0100 Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk = To Daniel Staal : BC to use portmaster (ports-mgmt/portmaster): it has a PM_SU_CMD which is Cool. Tried it but couldn't make it to update the only one port, and not to update its

Re: build ports from not a root user?

2011-07-21 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 21 Jul 2011, at 21:40, Peter Vereshagin pe...@vereshagin.org wrote: Oh freebsd-questions want you buy me a mersedes benz? 2011/07/21 19:39:45 +0100 Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk = To Daniel Staal : BC to use portmaster (ports-mgmt/portmaster): it has a PM_SU_CMD which is Cool. Tried

Re: build ports from not a root user?

2011-07-21 Thread Peter Vereshagin
' from to handle the dependencies. That is, to read the output of the 'make list-dependencies' or something like that. Shutting up but for those reading list archives: ports has the built-in 'su' feature for 'make install' to be done right after the 'make all'. 73! Peter pgp: A0E26627 (4A42 6841 2871

Re: build ports from not a root user?

2011-07-21 Thread RW
On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 23:07:41 +0200 Damien Fleuriot wrote: On 21 Jul 2011, at 21:40, Peter Vereshagin pe...@vereshagin.org wrote: Cool. Tried it but couldn't make it to update the only one port, and not to update its dependencies. That's kinda the point of portupgrade, takes care of

Re: build ports from not a root user?

2011-07-21 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 21 Jul 2011, at 23:56, RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com wrote: On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 23:07:41 +0200 Damien Fleuriot wrote: On 21 Jul 2011, at 21:40, Peter Vereshagin pe...@vereshagin.org wrote: Cool. Tried it but couldn't make it to update the only one port, and not to update its

/usr/ports/textproc/flex port didn't replace existing flex install

2011-07-18 Thread Jeff Hamann
) from /usr/ports/textproc/flex. When I flex --version, I still get the old version of flex (2.5.4). Is there some other place I need to set the path to flex? Respectfully, Jeff. Jeff Hamann, PhD PO Box 1421 Corvallis, Oregon 97339-1421 541-754-2457 jeff.hamann[at]forestinformatics[dot]com http

Re: /usr/ports/textproc/flex port didn't replace existing flex install

2011-07-18 Thread Peter Boosten
. I installed the latest port (flex-2.5.35_4) from /usr/ports/textproc/flex. When I flex --version, I still get the old version of flex (2.5.4). Is there some other place I need to set the path to flex? flex appears to be in my base system: /usr/bin/flex, and not coming from any port. Since

Perl Libs in FreeBSD CPAN and Ports

2011-07-13 Thread Alejandro Imass
Hello, I generally use the CPAN shell mainly to get the latest version of CPAN modules but for modules that use XS I usually prefer using the port. Ports also seem to have pretty good versions of everything and I use these 2 mechanisms interchangeably. Anyway, my question is really to learn more

Re: problem updating ports (latex-cjk)

2011-07-10 Thread Rafal Jagielski
Can confirm that this problem still exists. same log as described. latex-cjk-4.8.2_4 # be compatible with Debian find: /usr/ports/print/latex-cjk/work/ccmap: No such file or directory rgrds Rafal ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: ports/158374: databases/firebird21-client coredumps

2011-06-28 Thread Michael Maguire
Hi everyone, I'm posting this to the bug and to freebsd-questions in case anyone can help me out with advice on how to investigate further. This is in regards to: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/158374 I'm not sure if I jumped the gun on submitting the PR because the fix only

Re: Using a special proxy for ports

2011-06-27 Thread Dennis Glatting
On Sun, 26 Jun 2011, Dennis Glatting wrote: I have a requirement where I need to archive ports used across twenty hosts for a year or more. I've decided to do this using Squid and to take advantage of Squid's cache when updating common ports across those hosts. (BTW, at another site I

Re: Using a special proxy for ports

2011-06-27 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 6/27/11 4:52 AM, Dennis Glatting wrote: I have a requirement where I need to archive ports used across twenty hosts for a year or more. I've decided to do this using Squid and to take advantage of Squid's cache when updating common ports across those hosts. (BTW, at another site I used

Re: Using a special proxy for ports

2011-06-27 Thread Dennis Glatting
On Mon, 27 Jun 2011, Damien Fleuriot wrote: On 6/27/11 4:52 AM, Dennis Glatting wrote: I have a requirement where I need to archive ports used across twenty hosts for a year or more. I've decided to do this using Squid and to take advantage of Squid's cache when updating common ports across

Re: Using a special proxy for ports

2011-06-27 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 6/27/11 4:27 PM, Dennis Glatting wrote: On Mon, 27 Jun 2011, Damien Fleuriot wrote: On 6/27/11 4:52 AM, Dennis Glatting wrote: I have a requirement where I need to archive ports used across twenty hosts for a year or more. I've decided to do this using Squid and to take advantage

Re: Using a special proxy for ports

2011-06-27 Thread Dennis Glatting
On Mon, 27 Jun 2011, Damien Fleuriot wrote: On 6/27/11 4:27 PM, Dennis Glatting wrote: On Mon, 27 Jun 2011, Damien Fleuriot wrote: On 6/27/11 4:52 AM, Dennis Glatting wrote: I have a requirement where I need to archive ports used across twenty hosts for a year or more. I've decided

Re: Using a special proxy for ports

2011-06-27 Thread RW
On Sun, 26 Jun 2011 20:52:09 -0600 (MDT) Dennis Glatting wrote: I need is a method to embed into make.conf a proxy specification for fetch. Setting the environment variable HTTP_PROXY from the login shell /is not/ preferred because the account is used by different administrators, I don't what

Using a special proxy for ports

2011-06-26 Thread Dennis Glatting
I have a requirement where I need to archive ports used across twenty hosts for a year or more. I've decided to do this using Squid and to take advantage of Squid's cache when updating common ports across those hosts. (BTW, at another site I used rsync to sync /usr/ports/distfiles across

Enlightenment error after update some relative ports

2011-06-25 Thread alphachi
Today I updated some relative ports with enlightenment like ecore-*. When starting X, the screen turn to console after enlightenment splash screen show. The error is Enlightenment cannot initialize the FDO desktop system. Perhaps you are out of memory? out of memory is impossible. I try to reboot

Re: List of Servers for FreeBSD and Ports Updates...

2011-06-23 Thread Julian H. Stacey
the content of ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CTM/ . That should be sufficient, right? Yoy can receive all of src*, ports, cvs by ctm You can receive ctm by mail, all from @freebsd.org mail lists Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com

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