I admit it. I really don't get the FreeBSD packaging system. Sometimes I'll
create a package without errors, but the package will be empty. Other times,
the package is created and comes with requirements that were never built.
At the moment, I'm dealing with the latter. I created a package
i've been experimenting with ipfw since moving some of my machines from linux
to freebsd and i've run across an oddity wrt nmap and freebsd firewalls. it
doesn't seem to work and the activity isn't logged either.
the firewall is working though. ssh goes through, while other ports are being
On February 9, 2005 12:09 pm, Kris Kennaway wrote:
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 02:51:06PM +, Mark Ovens wrote:
well the handbook says freebsd5 has a minimum requirement of 8mb, so 16
should be fine. but even if it weren't, you'd think there'd be some
form of useful error message instead
On January 19, 2005 03:06 pm, Anthony Atkielski wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Fac I think the junky old PC market is just what the current FreeBSD
team Fac is targeting.
At least someone is thinking of it. There are a lot of PCs out there
that are still in perfect working order, but are
i've managed to build packages for everything else on the system, and gettext
seems to compile and install just fine, but for some reason, building the
package fails:
=== Building package for gettext-0.14.1
Creating package /usr/ports/packages/All/gettext-0.14.1.tbz
Registering depends:
On January 17, 2005 06:16 pm, Kris Kennaway wrote:
Those files are expected to be installed when the package is built on
FreeBSD. Since your system didn't build them, there must be something
different about it. You could check the output of the configure and
build scripts to find out why, or
On January 17, 2005 07:43 pm, Kris Kennaway wrote:
On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 06:57:23PM -0500, daniel quinn wrote:
On January 17, 2005 06:16 pm, Kris Kennaway wrote:
Those files are expected to be installed when the package is built on
FreeBSD. Since your system didn't build them
is this even possible? a number of google results have informed me that it
isn't, but i'm hoping there's a hack or a work around. essentially, i want
to build the packages on one box, copy them to many boxes and run package_add
there.
suggestions/comments?
--
Simon: This may come as a
On January 10, 2005 01:20 am, artware wrote:
My 5.3R system has only been up a little over a week, and I've already
had a few breakin attempts -- they show up as Illegal user tests in
the /var/log/auth.log... It looks like they're trying common login
names (probably with the login name used as
On January 10, 2005 05:02 pm, Frank Laszlo wrote:
daniel quinn wrote:
is this even possible? a number of google results have informed me that
it isn't, but i'm hoping there's a hack or a work around. essentially, i
want to build the packages on one box, copy them to many boxes and run
On January 10, 2005 05:17 pm, Michael C. Shultz wrote:
If the port is allready installed try:
pkg_create -b {name of installed port as listed under /var/db/pkg}
cool, thanks
and what if i don't want it installed on this machine? if i just want to
build it here for use elsewhere?
--
Also,
i've been asked by my company to put together a basic cd that can install a
basic freebsd5 system just by putting in the disc and turning it on. it'd
have to have a base number of packages and be configured for networking etc
at bootup etc.
but here's the problem. i'm a gentoo-linux guy.
On January 5, 2005 04:19 pm, Kiffin Gish wrote:
Sometimes when I am trying to make something from the ports I get the
message that the port is 'broken'.
For example, while trying to build the enlightenment window manager.
What does that mean and what can I do to get around it?
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