Question About Ports Update Cycle

2008-04-11 Thread Tim Daneliuk
Is there some regular interval at which new ports are processed by the FreeBSD team? I submitted a port (for a very minor utility) 3/20/2008 but it is still not in the tree. I'm not complaining in the slightest - the folks who do this work are volunteering their time, and I get/respect that.

Re: Question About Ports Update Cycle

2008-04-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
Tim Daneliuk wrote: Is there some regular interval at which new ports are processed by the FreeBSD team? I submitted a port (for a very minor utility) 3/20/2008 but it is still not in the tree. I'm not complaining in the slightest - the folks who do this work are volunteering their time, and I

question about ports: php5-extensions

2007-03-27 Thread James liu
FB 6i first setup freetds in /usr/local/freetds and use its tsql to test connect ms sql server, it is ok. setup php5-extensions,,and click mssql(option) i find it use another freetds,,,but not show me error information. setup is complete. i can find mssql support with phpinfo. so i use

Re: Question about ports builds

2006-07-06 Thread Chuck Swiger
Charlie Sorsby wrote: Charlie Sorsby wrote: [ ... ] PS It would be really helpful if each port/package at freebsd.org had an indication whether it requires the latest and greatest version of freeBSD. Put another way, it would be nice to know the oldest version of freeBSD it will work with.

Re: Newbie question about ports.

2005-06-27 Thread RW
On Friday 24 June 2005 19:36, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Sam Ip wrote: I'm trying out FreeBSD for the first time for use at work. However, there is a corporate firewall and hence ftp traffic doesn't get through. I can access http sites. So if a selling point of FreeBSD is its ports collection

Re: Newbie question about ports.

2005-06-24 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Sam Ip wrote: I'm trying out FreeBSD for the first time for use at work. However, there is a corporate firewall and hence ftp traffic doesn't get through. I can access http sites. So if a selling point of FreeBSD is its ports collection 1. Can you do a CVSup to update your ports via http?

Re: Newbie question about ports.

2005-06-24 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Friday 24 June 2005 01:01 pm, Sam Ip wrote: Hi, I'm trying out FreeBSD for the first time for use at work. However, there is a corporate firewall and hence ftp traffic doesn't get through. I can access http sites. So if a selling point of FreeBSD is its ports collection 1. Can you do

Re: Question about Ports and Packages

2005-04-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Tom Moyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm using FreeBSD 5-STABLE installed from 5.4-RC1 and then cvsup'd to 5-STABLE on Friday. Maybe I'm just doing something wrong, but I noticed that when I did pkgdb -F or portsdb -Uu, it seemed to complain about build dependancies missing for packages

Question about Ports and Packages

2005-04-11 Thread Tom Moyer
I'm using FreeBSD 5-STABLE installed from 5.4-RC1 and then cvsup'd to 5-STABLE on Friday. Maybe I'm just doing something wrong, but I noticed that when I did pkgdb -F or portsdb -Uu, it seemed to complain about build dependancies missing for packages that I installed from packages. I assumed

Re: Dumb question about ports/packages

2005-02-13 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Ian Moore writes: On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 17:50, Matt Rechkemmer wrote: Final question :-), is there anyway to determine if a base package is out of date? Or is just wise to leave the base alone and upgrade when a new release comes along. You should at least update your system when

Re: Dumb question about ports/packages

2005-02-11 Thread Ian Moore
On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 17:50, Matt Rechkemmer wrote: On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 09:45:07AM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: These are probably RTFM questions, but I didn't seem to find a mention of the base system packages in the UPGRADING document. So how would one update a base package, check it out

Re: Dumb question about ports/packages

2005-02-10 Thread Matt Rechkemmer
On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 09:45:07AM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Um, no, as the original poster pointed out, ssh is part of the base system, and normally you don't need the port. Upgrading the base system *is* the best approach. It *doesn't* normally require updating to the latest

Dumb question about ports/packages

2005-02-08 Thread Matt Rechkemmer
This is somewhat of a dumb question, but I'm a bit confused about the differences between ports, packages and what is currently on the system. Let's [hypothetically] say I have a FreeBSD 5.3 system. I use the ports system on things I want to compile and packages when I'm lazy :-). I keep track

Re: Dumb question about ports/packages

2005-02-08 Thread gabriel
a patch would be issued for the source. On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 01:57:48 -0700, Matt Rechkemmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is somewhat of a dumb question, but I'm a bit confused about the differences between ports, packages and what is currently on the system. Let's [hypothetically] say I have

Re: Dumb question about ports/packages

2005-02-08 Thread Olivier Nicole
How would I upgrade just one package part of the core like that? Or multiple ones for that matter. Can you use the ports/packages system? Or do you have to do an entire system upgrade (i.e. 4.10 to 4.11). I'd say, given that ssh is part of the ports (/usr/ports/security/ssh), you could ust

Re: Dumb question about ports/packages

2005-02-08 Thread Lowell Gilbert
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Re: Dumb question about ports/packages

2005-02-08 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Olivier Nicole [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How would I upgrade just one package part of the core like that? Or multiple ones for that matter. Can you use the ports/packages system? Or do you have to do an entire system upgrade (i.e. 4.10 to 4.11). I'd say, given that ssh is part of the

Re: Question about ports

2004-10-07 Thread whitevamp
- From: Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Pierre LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 5:16 PM Subject: Re: Question about ports Pierre LeBlanc wrote: Hello, I'm new to the port collection and updating ports with CVSup

Re: Question about ports

2004-10-06 Thread Nikolas Britton
Pierre LeBlanc wrote: Hello, I'm new to the port collection and updating ports with CVSup but I managed to update the ports of my FreeBSD 4.10 system using CVSup. Now, I want to upgrade Perl to version 5.6 and I notice there is a perl5 port in the list I`ve seen on:

Re: Question about ports...

2003-12-11 Thread C. Ulrich
On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 12:04, Payne wrote: Hi, I am want to install postnuke but when-ever I go to do make under /usr/port/www/postnuke, it wants to install mod_php4 again, I don't want to have to reinstall ports everytime I add something new. Thanks, Payne Does postnuke require a

Re: Question about ports... [postnuke]

2003-12-11 Thread Matt Staroscik
I am want to install postnuke but when-ever I go to do make under /usr/port/www/postnuke, it wants to install mod_php4 again, I don't want to have to reinstall ports everytime I add something new. I recently installed PHPNuke and have some observations that might be relevant to your situation.

Re: Question about ports... [postnuke]

2003-12-11 Thread HOLLOW, CHRISTOPHER
Given PHPNuke's security track record, I would say that this is sound advice. I would suggest going from the latest source as well. Chris Matt Staroscik wrote: I am want to install postnuke but when-ever I go to do make under /usr/port/www/postnuke, it wants to install mod_php4 again, I don't

Re: Question about ports... [postnuke]

2003-12-11 Thread Pete Renshaw
Did you try make install FORCE_PKG_REGISTER=yes clean See http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=portsapropos=0sektion=0manpath=FreeBSD+5.1-RELEASE+and+Portsformat=html Many people don't know to use the =yes for FORCE_PKG_REGISTER. After you get Postnuke installed you may have to make these

Question about ports...

2003-12-10 Thread Payne
Hi, I am want to install postnuke but when-ever I go to do make under /usr/port/www/postnuke, it wants to install mod_php4 again, I don't want to have to reinstall ports everytime I add something new. Thanks, Payne ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

question about ports

2003-07-15 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello :) I have 2 questions concerning the ports. 1. I need to apply a patch to a port so my modem could work with mgetty+sendfax; how do I do that ? Do I have to edit the Makefile or pass options to the make command ? 2. Can I have a port

Re: question about ports

2003-07-15 Thread Jens Rehsack
Antoine Jacoutot wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello :) I have 2 questions concerning the ports. 1. I need to apply a patch to a port so my modem could work with mgetty+sendfax; how do I do that ? Do I have to edit the Makefile or pass options to the make command ?

Re: question about ports

2003-07-15 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 15 July 2003 12:25, you wrote: Just to give you an example. a) If I want to have the FreeBSD php4-port is able to work with thttpd, I have to update the lang/php4/Makefile and lang/php4/bsd.php.mk to recognize a new flag for the port

Re: question about ports

2003-07-15 Thread Jens Rehsack
Antoine Jacoutot wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 15 July 2003 12:25, you wrote: [...] In fact I wanted to try adding an option in mgetty, like: if WITH_USR=yes, then patch the mgetty source This usually went this way, even if I don't want to prevent you from

Re: question about ports

2003-07-15 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 15 July 2003 12:51, Jens Rehsack wrote: This usually went this way, even if I don't want to prevent you from asking the ports maintainer to accept/commit your patch. Usually you create the patch against mgetty, send this patch to the

Re: question about ports

2003-07-15 Thread Jens Rehsack
Antoine Jacoutot wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 15 July 2003 12:51, Jens Rehsack wrote: This usually went this way, even if I don't want to prevent you from asking the ports maintainer to accept/commit your patch. Usually you create the patch against mgetty, send

Re: a simple question about ports

2003-03-04 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 01:42:31PM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Cliff Sarginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 12:39:13PM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Cliff Sarginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: Why are ports sometimes released, when

Re: a simple question about ports

2003-03-02 Thread Mike Meyer
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Cliff Sarginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: Why are ports sometimes released, when they are uncompileable ? Lots of different reasons, the most likely one being that they compiled file on the committers box. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: a simple question about ports

2003-03-02 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 12:39:13PM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Cliff Sarginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: Why are ports sometimes released, when they are uncompileable ? Lots of different reasons, the most likely one being that they compiled file on the committers box.

Re: a simple question about ports

2003-03-02 Thread Mike Meyer
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Cliff Sarginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 12:39:13PM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Cliff Sarginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: Why are ports sometimes released, when they are uncompileable ? Lots of different reasons, the most

Re: a simple question about ports

2003-03-02 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Mar 02), Cliff Sarginson said: Why are ports sometimes released, when they are uncompileable ? More details please. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message