Re: Debian GNU/kFreeBSD

2011-02-13 Thread Mark Linimon
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 10:12:05AM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > What is it that this Debian GNU/kFreeBSD ships in those 7 DVDs? Please ask that on one of their mailing lists; it's out of scope for the two mailing lists you posted to. mcl ___ free

Re: freebsd-update(8) under sparc64? Why is it not available?

2010-03-24 Thread Mark Linimon
You're the first one to ask in a while. Since our userbase is small, and developer time is limited, we've never set it up. Right now I'd just be happy if I can get all the major ports to work :-) mcl ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http:

Re: trouble installing to sun blade 1500

2009-12-01 Thread Mark Linimon
On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 05:07:18PM +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > in case it matters, I see > > nexus0: type unknown (no driver attached) > > nexus0: mem 0x400-0x47 type > memory-controller (no driver attached) > > messages on boot. I haven't walked throu

Re: ion windows manager on FreeBSD

2009-10-02 Thread Mark Linimon
On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 05:32:31PM +0400, Dmitry Marakasov wrote: > Do you honestly think the probability of Tuomo suing us is higher of, > say, me suing, well, us? Yes. That is exactly what I am saying. And I believe reading the entire thread when this first came up supports my claim. mcl

Re: ion windows manager on FreeBSD

2009-10-01 Thread Mark Linimon
On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 02:58:23PM +0400, Dmitry Marakasov wrote: > No need to, if it works fine and there are no objections for it, > I'll commit it to the tree. I insist that you not to commit it to the tree. See my other post. mcl ___ freebsd-questi

Re: ion windows manager on FreeBSD

2009-10-01 Thread Mark Linimon
On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 03:45:46PM +0400, Dmitry Marakasov wrote: > Now it's LGPLv2.1 with the only restriction that this software may not > be significantly changed while being distributed as ion3. I hate to replay this whole issue from the beginning, but apparently there is no other way. The au

Re: ion windows manager on FreeBSD

2009-09-30 Thread Mark Linimon
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 03:05:08PM +0400, Dmitry Marakasov wrote: > I've seen the license change too. I'm working on the port currently. As a reminder, the last time this software was in the ports tree, the developer threatened us with a lawsuit. This repeats what he has previously done to severa

Re: ports lang/gcc4x fail to build on ia64

2009-08-17 Thread Mark Linimon
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 03:51:24PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > I wonder if they work under ia64 linux? I don't know. A quick check of NetBSD seems to indicate that their ia64 port only runs in emulation mode; OpenBSD doesn't list an ia64 port. mcl _

Re: ports lang/gcc4x fail to build on ia64

2009-08-17 Thread Mark Linimon
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 02:57:52PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > Ports lang/gcc43, 44 and 45 fail to build on 8.0-beta2 ia64: > http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=40959 > > I know they build fine on 6.4-stable alpha, but what about sparc64? > amd64? mips? You can check things like t

Re: ports missing their packages.

2008-10-29 Thread Mark Linimon
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 05:55:20AM -0700, mdh wrote: > email the FreeBSD Foundation and find out how much cash it'd take for > additional hardware to make that a reality, then send them that much cash. We are actually set up ok on amd64 machines right now (incremental package builds take just ov

Re: ports missing their packages.

2008-10-29 Thread Mark Linimon
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 05:02:14PM +0800, joeb wrote: > How does kdenetwork-kopete-0.12.8 or php5-gd or pdflib fit into those > reasons you gave? A little research shows: ftp://ftp4.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7-stable/All/php5-gd-5.2.6_2.tbz So, there is a current package for ph

Re: ports missing their packages.

2008-10-29 Thread Mark Linimon
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 04:42:18AM -0500, Scot Hetzel wrote: > So you are advocating that port maintainers have to create packages > for all the supported FreeBSD architecture's (amd64, arm, i386, ia64, > mips, pc98, powerpc, sparc64, sun4v). That would be 9 packages > needing to be created at the

Re: ports missing their packages.

2008-10-29 Thread Mark Linimon
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 04:09:23PM +0800, FBSD1 wrote: > An alternate solution to this problem is to allow users to upload missing > packages one word for you: "security". What you suggest is never, ever, going to be implemented, due to the total lack of security. mcl ___

Re: I can't make world without the "games" group?

2008-08-02 Thread Mark Linimon
On Sat, Aug 02, 2008 at 06:48:27PM +0200, Redd Vinylene wrote: > Why does FreeBSD pack so much, pardon my language, bullshit anyway? Because no one has done the necessary QA work to factor things out and make them work. mcl ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd

Re: FreeBSD bind performance in FreeBSD 7

2008-03-05 Thread Mark Linimon
> > * I am trying to understand what is different about the ISC > > configuration but have not yet found the cause. > It's called "Anti-FreeBSD bias". You won't find anything. If this is true, please try to explain to me the following: - ISC hosts 5 Netra 1s that comprise most of our sparc64 p

Re: Xorg Modular

2007-05-04 Thread Mark Linimon
On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 02:26:20AM -0300, Jason Hills wrote: > Yeah, Kris mentioned something like that in a private mail, but google > didnt help me, nor http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/ :( http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?461FE03C.8000406 http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cg

Re: /pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5-stable/All

2007-01-11 Thread Mark Linimon
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 02:00:08AM -0500, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 05:57:56PM +1100, Ian Smith wrote: > > Hi Kris, > > > > I know things must be pretty busy with 6.2, but is there any chance that > > the 5.5-STABLE packages can be updated soon? I just checked again, and > >

Re: Bugzilla instead of current problem system for bugs and features?

2007-01-06 Thread Mark Linimon
On Sat, Jan 06, 2007 at 11:53:31AM +0300, Abdullah Al-Marrie wrote: > I just don't feel the current bug system is good for the FreeBSD > growing community This question has been extensively discussed on various mailing lists over the past 2 years. The migration problem is not as easy as you seem

Re: portsdb -Uu broken on AMD64 system

2006-07-21 Thread Mark Linimon
This has already been fixed. Please re-cvsup and try again. mcl ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Has the port collection become to large to handle.

2006-05-14 Thread Mark Linimon
On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 02:04:55PM +0300, Panagiotis Astithas wrote: > I believe that one solution to the scalability problem of creating and > maintaining updated packages, would be to decentralize it more. Each > time I submit an update for one of the ports I maintain, I've already > build the

Re: pppd

2005-10-25 Thread Mark Linimon
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 10:56:35AM +0400, Alexander Pyhalov wrote: > I use the last port collection, but there is only 2.3.11 version of pppd > there. Are there any plans for updating it? The first place you should always ask about plans to update a port is the maintainer. If the maintainer is [

Re: Portupgrade in Xfree86 pkg failed

2005-06-25 Thread Mark Linimon
On Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 02:45:45PM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > I'm sorry to step on the toes of the port maintainer but instead > of complaining about it you need to respond to the realitites. In general I would rather do that than argue, yes. > make: don't know how to make /drm.h. Stop > **

Re: Portupgrade in Xfree86 pkg failed

2005-06-25 Thread Mark Linimon
On Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 09:14:26AM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > Why are you building xfree86? FreeBSD 5.4 uses Xorg. It's > just about the same code just different licensing. I don't think the > FreeBSD core is bothering to keep the xfree86 port working on FreeBSD 5.X > just FreeBSD 4.11