Re: Do I really have to install 80 packages?

On 10/13/13 17:38, Thomas Mueller wrote: On the question of playing Adobe Flash in FreeBSD, could one use the MS-Windows 32-bit version with (i386-)Wine? I plan to try that. Apparently that won't solve much. The primary issue now with watching flash movies is the drm - on linux it somehow uses

Re: Do I really have to install 80 packages?

On the question of playing Adobe Flash in FreeBSD, could one use the MS-Windows 32-bit version with (i386-)Wine? I plan to try that. Tom ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsu

Re: Do I really have to install 80 packages?

On Sun, 2013-10-13 at 04:48 +0200, Polytropon wrote: > Let's hope people are going to get smarter than I assume. :-) It's new, not even 100 years old. Within our lifetimes people likely become more stupid, but yes, it will take some generations and people will get smarter. __

Re: Do I really have to install 80 packages?

On Sat, 12 Oct 2013 23:28:40 +0100, gct7photogra...@gmail.com wrote: > I don't know what others think, but what *I* really want is that the > free software versions of Flash (gnash and klash, etc) work at least as > well as versions of Adobe Flash do, or if versions of Adobe Flash are > to be used,

Re: Do I really have to install 80 packages?

I don't know what others think, but what *I* really want is that the free software versions of Flash (gnash and klash, etc) work at least as well as versions of Adobe Flash do, or if versions of Adobe Flash are to be used, that it will be free and covered by the GPL. Its unlikely to happen unless

Re: Do I really have to install 80 packages?

of abstraction of > tools of utilities of stuff of layers of layers of other abstractions. > :-) > > As you see: "gnome-desktop" and "gtk20". That should bring your warning > lights up: lots of dependencies ahead! > > When you try to install a "simple deskto

Re: Do I really have to install 80 packages?

quot;gtk20". That should bring your warning lights up: lots of dependencies ahead! When you try to install a "simple desktop environment", you'll be confronted with hundreds of packages to be installed, some of them you've probably never had thought of in regards of wh

Re: Do I really have to install 80 packages?

On 10/11/13 5:38 PM, Walter Hurry wrote: > FreeBSD 9.1 > > I want ONE shared lib; i.e. rsvg.so, which is provided by > x11-toolkits/py-gnome-desktop. > > Unfortunately, it seems that going the normal route I shall have to > install 80! ports to get it. Is there an easier way? Actually I think y

Do I really have to install 80 packages?

FreeBSD 9.1 I want ONE shared lib; i.e. rsvg.so, which is provided by x11-toolkits/py-gnome-desktop. Unfortunately, it seems that going the normal route I shall have to install 80! ports to get it. Is there an easier way? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd

Re: install packages with pkg_add(1) into another file system

El día Tuesday, October 08, 2013 a las 03:31:16PM +0200, Matthias Apitz escribió: > Meanwhile I did: > > # cp -Rp ~guru/PKGDIR/mnt > > # PKG_PATH=/PKGDIR > # export PKG_PATH > # chroot /mnt pkg_add xorg-7.7 > # chroot /mnt pkg_add kde-4.10.5 > # chroot /mnt pkg_add vim-7.3.1314 > ... > > #

Re: install packages with pkg_add(1) into another file system

as you seem to be aware of > what you're doing :-) > > When you use pkg_* or pkg with their built-in chroot options it seems > that it executes those tools within those chroots instead of setting the > chroot as a destination for the installation. So if you wanted to use > -

Re: install packages with pkg_add(1) into another file system

On Tue, Oct 8, 2013, at 8:07, Matthias Apitz wrote: > El día Tuesday, October 08, 2013 a las 07:58:06AM -0500, Mark Felder > escribió: > > > On Tue, Oct 8, 2013, at 6:16, Matthias Apitz wrote: > > > > > > So far so good. Now I want install the packages as well i

Re: install packages with pkg_add(1) into another file system

El día Tuesday, October 08, 2013 a las 07:58:06AM -0500, Mark Felder escribió: > On Tue, Oct 8, 2013, at 6:16, Matthias Apitz wrote: > > > > So far so good. Now I want install the packages as well into the image > > in /mnt. What would be the best method for this? Run pkg_

Re: install packages with pkg_add(1) into another file system

On Tue, Oct 8, 2013, at 6:16, Matthias Apitz wrote: > > So far so good. Now I want install the packages as well into the image > in /mnt. What would be the best method for this? Run pkg_add with the > flag --chroot chrootdir, or use chroot(8) directly? Or any other idea? > >

install packages with pkg_add(1) into another file system

trib-dirs DESTDIR=/mnt # make distribution DESTDIR=/mnt ... I have compiled ~800 ports (Xorg and KDE4) and after this I've created packages of all the installed ports with pkg_create(1); the resulting .tgz files are all as well copied to the image into /mnt/PKGDIR. So far so good. Now I want in

Perl packages fails to build

Hi all, Using freebsd 9.2 amd64 and poudriere, perl fails to build: /bin/mkdir -p /wrkdirs/usr/ports/lang/perl5.14/work/stage/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.14/BSDPAN/. install -o root -g wheel -m 444 /wrkdirs/usr/ports/lang/perl5.14/work/BSDPAN-2007/BSDPAN.pm /wrkdirs/usr/ports/lang/perl5.14/work/

Re: pkg install on freshly installed 9.1 doesn't find any packages

On 17/08/2013 05:41, Yuri wrote: > I installed 9.1 from iso image. > Then 'pkg' command brought pkg-1.0.11 package. > Now commands like 'pkg install gnome2' always say: > pkg: Package 'gnome2' was not found in the repositories. > > Am I missing something? This is vanilla 9.1 from DVD image. Nothin

pkg install on freshly installed 9.1 doesn't find any packages

I installed 9.1 from iso image. Then 'pkg' command brought pkg-1.0.11 package. Now commands like 'pkg install gnome2' always say: pkg: Package 'gnome2' was not found in the repositories. Am I missing something? This is vanilla 9.1 from DVD image. Nothing else. Yuri __

Re: HOWTO monitor changes in installed packages within jails?

On 20.07.2013, at 18:34, Michael Grimm wrote: > On 20.07.2013, at 14:53, Matthew Seaman > wrote: >> On 20/07/2013 12:09, Michael Grimm wrote: > >>> I did migrate to pkgng some month ago, and ever since I am curious >>> how to monitor changes in inst

Re: HOWTO monitor changes in installed packages within jails?

On 20.07.2013, at 14:53, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 20/07/2013 12:09, Michael Grimm wrote: >> I did migrate to pkgng some month ago, and ever since I am curious >> how to monitor changes in installed packages within jails. I am >> looking for a functionality/port that

Re: HOWTO monitor changes in installed packages within jails?

On 20/07/2013 12:09, Michael Grimm wrote: > I did migrate to pkgng some month ago, and ever since I am curious > how to monitor changes in installed packages within jails. I am > looking for a functionality/port that works like 490.status- > pkg-changes for my host. > > Ques

HOWTO monitor changes in installed packages within jails?

Hi -- I did migrate to pkgng some month ago, and ever since I am curious how to monitor changes in installed packages within jails. I am looking for a functionality/port that works like 490.status-pkg-changes for my host. Question: is there any functionality within the periodic system or a

Mirroring Binary Packages

Hi all, I want to mirror binary packages for 8.x amd64 internally on an isolated network. It appears the appropriate source would be on an official mirror at pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-8-stable/ for the most recent updates. However, it does not appear to have been updated since October

Re: upgrade packages

On Thu, 25 Apr 2013 15:05:25 +0200, Pol Hallen wrote: > Hi all! > > I come from linux os and I read a lot documentations about freebsd. > > I've a doubt: when I've some packages installed and I need upgrade it, I > need to recompile those packages or there's ano

upgrade packages

Hi all! I come from linux os and I read a lot documentations about freebsd. I've a doubt: when I've some packages installed and I need upgrade it, I need to recompile those packages or there's another (fast) way to do this? thanks! Pol

Re: When will binary packages be back?

On Wed, 10 Apr 2013 14:14:21 -0600, Brett Glass wrote: > Just made that into a batch file for my library. Should be a target in > the standard ports Makefile, IMHO. Maybe call it "rdistclean". Perhaps > this could be submitted as a PR. There are various options in portsclean (provided by ports-mg

Re: When will binary packages be back?

Just made that into a batch file for my library. Should be a target in the standard ports Makefile, IMHO. Maybe call it "rdistclean". Perhaps this could be submitted as a PR. --Brett Glass At 12:37 PM 4/10/2013, Greg Larkin wrote: Here's an easy way to delete all of the distfiles for a port an

Re: When will binary packages be back?

short circuit these. | |IIRC there may be some exceptions where you need some (a handful or less) |of |some X related packages. Seem to think of things like gd, imagemagick, |freetype, etc., for PHP kind of things. In these cases, the make.conf line |will blanket cover most of what you don't want

Re: When will binary packages be back?

ed some (a handful or less) of some X related packages. Seem to think of things like gd, imagemagick, freetype, etc., for PHP kind of things. In these cases, the make.conf line will blanket cover most of what you don't want and you can choose make config options that will pull in only what you

Re: When will binary packages be back?

On 04/10/2013 22:19, Mike. wrote: On 4/10/2013 at 11:39 AM Brett Glass wrote: |For many years, I've used FreeBSD binary packages to avoid long |waits and/or having to set up a special build machine when creating |small systems. But even though the development server security |breach is now

Re: When will binary packages be back?

On 4/10/2013 at 11:39 AM Brett Glass wrote: |For many years, I've used FreeBSD binary packages to avoid long |waits and/or having to set up a special build machine when creating |small systems. But even though the development server security |breach is now long past, there are no publ

Re: When will binary packages be back?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 4/10/13 2:19 PM, Brett Glass wrote: > Unfortunately, I've never experimented with pkgng, so will have to > come up to speed on this. Might be a temporary workaround. > > In the meantime, I'm trying to install Apache 2.2 on a small > server. So fa

Re: When will binary packages be back?

On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 11:19 AM, Brett Glass wrote: > Unfortunately, I've never experimented with pkgng, so will have to come up > to speed on > this. Might be a temporary workaround. > it is def. where the project is moving towards for binary pkg distribution, so it won't be a wasted effort :)

Re: When will binary packages be back?

Unfortunately, I've never experimented with pkgng, so will have to come up to speed on this. Might be a temporary workaround. In the meantime, I'm trying to install Apache 2.2 on a small server. So far, just to build the port, the machine has built Perl, Python, m4, Berkeley DB, and an incredi

Re: When will binary packages be back?

On 04/10/2013 20:39, Brett Glass wrote: For many years, I've used FreeBSD binary packages to avoid long waits and/or having to set up a special build machine when creating small systems. But even though the development server security breach is now long past, there are no published b

Re: When will binary packages be back?

On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Brett Glass wrote: > > For many years, I've used FreeBSD binary packages to avoid long waits and/or > having to set up a special build machine when creating small systems. But > even though the development server security breach is now long p

When will binary packages be back?

For many years, I've used FreeBSD binary packages to avoid long waits and/or having to set up a special build machine when creating small systems. But even though the development server security breach is now long past, there are no published binary packages for FreeBSD 9.1. When will th

Re: State of Packages

On 4/6/2013 7:56 PM, Walter Hurry wrote: Agreed; that's why I haven't attempted to do so. Also, I only build packages for the 600 or so packages in which I am interested, and only for the FreeBSD version in use, and only for the specific CPU architecture. Maybe Joshua is overlooking

Re: State of Packages

it >> hasn't been done yet. It's been almost five months. > > It's easy to build a repository, it's hard to build a secure public > repository. Agreed; that's why I haven't attempted to do so. Also, I only build packages for the 600 or so package

Re: State of Packages

On Sat, 06 Apr 2013 15:25:42 -0500 Joshua Isom wrote: > I've been using FreeBSD since the summer of 2005, I still have the first > cd-r I used. The fact that it's so easy makes me wonder why it hasn't > been done yet. It's been almost five months. It's easy to build a repository, it'

Re: State of Packages

On 4/5/2013 7:51 AM, Walter Hurry wrote: On Thu, 04 Apr 2013 14:57:57 -0400, doug wrote: My questions: Does/will pkgng work? Are 9.1 packages on the ISO images? I am in the progess of answering that one for myself but had some time on my hands during the download :) Prebuilt packages are on

Re: State of Packages

On Thu, 04 Apr 2013 14:57:57 -0400, doug wrote: > My questions: Does/will pkgng work? Are 9.1 packages on the ISO images? > I am in the progess of answering that one for myself but had some time > on my hands during the download :) Prebuilt packages are on the way apparently, but I hav

Re: State of Packages

On Thu, 4 Apr 2013, Mark Blackman wrote: On 4 Apr 2013, at 21:21, Bryan Drewery wrote: On 4/4/2013 1:57 PM, d...@safeport.com wrote: Its seems certain that pkg_add is not [going to] be[ing] restored. Progress is being made on providing pkg_add and pkgng packages again. They will come back

Re: State of Packages

On 4 Apr 2013, at 21:21, Bryan Drewery wrote: > On 4/4/2013 1:57 PM, d...@safeport.com wrote: >> Its seems certain that pkg_add is not [going to] be[ing] restored. > > Progress is being made on providing pkg_add and pkgng packages again. > They will come back. For

Re: State of Packages

On 4/4/2013 1:57 PM, d...@safeport.com wrote: > Its seems certain that pkg_add is not [going to] be[ing] restored. Progress is being made on providing pkg_add and pkgng packages again. They will come back. > > Index of ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/9.1-RELEASE/

State of Packages

:00 File:src.txz94190 KB12/04/12 10:10:00 This pretty much invalidates 5.4 of the handbook. My questions: Does/will pkgng work? Are 9.1 packages on the ISO images? I am in the progess of answering that one for myself but had some time on my hands during the download

fresh binary packages for 9.1 / 9 stable

Hey hey :-) Are there any news on fresh binary packages for 9.1-RELEASE / 9-STABLE? :-) Best regards, Tomek -- CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: no 9.1-release packages?

On 7 Mar 2013, at 15:52, Ruben de Groot wrote: > > Hi, > > I just rented a 9.1-release VPS and was trying to install some packages. > This however does not work as there is no directory "packages-9.1-release" on > the ftp server (ftp.freebsd.org). Why is this? &g

Re: no 9.1-release packages?

On 7 mrt 2013, at 16:58, Johan Hendriks wrote: > Ruben de Groot schreef: >> Hi, >> >> I just rented a 9.1-release VPS and was trying to install some packages. >> This however does not work as there is no directory "packages-9.1-release" >> on th

Re: no 9.1-release packages?

Ruben de Groot schreef: Hi, I just rented a 9.1-release VPS and was trying to install some packages. This however does not work as there is no directory "packages-9.1-release" on the ftp server (ftp.freebsd.org). Why is this? ftp> pwd Remote directory: /pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd6

no 9.1-release packages?

Hi, I just rented a 9.1-release VPS and was trying to install some packages. This however does not work as there is no directory "packages-9.1-release" on the ftp server (ftp.freebsd.org). Why is this? ftp> pwd Remote directory: /pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64 ftp> ls 229 Entering

9.1 packages

Hi Guys, Do you have any idea when are going to be the packages available for FreeBSD 9.1? thx! Laszlo ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "fr

Re: Ports & Packages [Stable] in sync

On Feb 17, 2013, at 3:44 PM, Jeff Tipton wrote: > On 02/17/2013 13:13, Damien Fleuriot wrote: >> On 16 Feb 2013, at 16:56, Jeff Tipton wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I upgraded 9.0 -> 9.1 on my netbook and only then found out that there are >>&g

Re: Ports & Packages [Stable] in sync

y newer than those of > 9-STABLE packages. I think if I don't get the revision number from > which the 9-STABLE was updated last time I'll use the ports tree that > comes with 9.1-RELEASE. I hope it won't cause much version > incompatibilities. Um, not really. Or at least, no

Re: Ports & Packages [Stable] in sync

On 02/17/2013 13:13, Damien Fleuriot wrote: On 16 Feb 2013, at 16:56, Jeff Tipton wrote: Hi, I upgraded 9.0 -> 9.1 on my netbook and only then found out that there are no packages for 9.1-RELEASE. On my desktops, I keep ports and packages at the RELEASE versions, so I only have to comp

Re: Ports & Packages [Stable] in sync

On 16 Feb 2013, at 16:56, Jeff Tipton wrote: > Hi, > > I upgraded 9.0 -> 9.1 on my netbook and only then found out that there are no > packages for 9.1-RELEASE. On my desktops, I keep ports and packages at the > RELEASE versions, so I only have to compile when I need n

Ports & Packages [Stable] in sync

Hi, I upgraded 9.0 -> 9.1 on my netbook and only then found out that there are no packages for 9.1-RELEASE. On my desktops, I keep ports and packages at the RELEASE versions, so I only have to compile when I need non-default options or when there are no packages. Would it be possible to

Re: packages listing

Uhh, I got a couple of answers :) Thx everybody! From: Nikos Vassiliadis To: "Teske, Devin" Cc: Dánielisz László ; Polytropon ; "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2013 2:51 PM Subject: Re: packages listing

Re: packages listing

On 2/10/2013 3:09 PM, Teske, Devin wrote: Just curious, why not use "pkg_info -Ra" instead of "pkg_info -R '*'" ? Because I didnt know -a;) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

RE: packages listing

On Sun, 10 Feb 2013, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: > On 2/10/2013 8:57 AM, Polytropon wrote: > > On Sat, 9 Feb 2013 22:52:37 -0800 (PST), Dánielisz László wrote: > >> Hi Everybody, > >> > >> Do you have any idea how can I list those installed packages >

Re: packages listing

On 2/10/2013 8:57 AM, Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 9 Feb 2013 22:52:37 -0800 (PST), Dánielisz László wrote: Hi Everybody, Do you have any idea how can I list those installed packages that are not required by any other? You can use sysutils/pkg_cutleaves to determine those. I use this

Re: packages listing

On 10/02/2013 06:52, Dánielisz László wrote: > Do you have any idea how can I list those installed packages that are not > required by any other? If you're using pkgng: pkg query -e "%#r==0" "%n-%v" There isn't (as far as I know) a way of doing this dire

Re: packages listing

pkg_tree -t -q On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 8:52 AM, Dánielisz László wrote: > Hi Everybody, > > Do you have any idea how can I list those installed packages that are not > required by any other? > > Thx! > Laszlo > ___ > fr

Re: packages listing

On Sat, 9 Feb 2013 22:52:37 -0800 (PST), Dánielisz László wrote: > Hi Everybody, > > Do you have any idea how can I list those installed packages > that are not required by any other? You can use sysutils/pkg_cutleaves to determine those. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy

packages listing

Hi Everybody, Do you have any idea how can I list those installed packages that are not required by any other? Thx! Laszlo ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Building a release with custom packages

Hi All, If anyone has interest, I have a new blog post on building a FreeBSD release with custom packages at http://blog.hostileadmin.com/2012/10/08/building-freebsd-media-with-custom-packages/ -- Take care Rick Miller ___ freebsd-questions

Re: I Can Has Packages?

e and freely mix that with installing > > pre-compiled packages of anything else from the public repositories. > > To be honest, that's what I'm doing for many years now. I > tend to compile only those ports where it is either required > in order to obtain the software because n

Re: I Can Has Packages?

On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 06:38:33 +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: > I always keep saying the ideal > situation would be that you could customise and compile just your own > really mission critical software and freely mix that with installing > pre-compiled packages of anything else fro

Re: I Can Has Packages?

On 20/08/2012 04:07, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: >>>>>> "Polytropon" == Polytropon writes: > > > Polytropon> I just assume providing packages for every imaginable > Polytropon> combination requires lots of resources. As an example > Polytrop

Re: I Can Has Packages?

>>>>> "Polytropon" == Polytropon writes: Polytropon> I just assume providing packages for every imaginable Polytropon> combination requires lots of resources. As an example Polytropon> take OpenOffice: Every language variant, then integration Polytropon>

Re: I Can Has Packages?

On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 11:27:54PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2012 23:27:54 +0200 > From: Polytropon > Subject: Re: I Can Has Packages? > To: vermaden > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.1.1 (GTK+ 2.24.5; i386-portbld-freebsd8.2) >

Re: I Can Has Packages?

On Sun, 19 Aug 2012 22:54:52 +0200, vermaden wrote: > "Polytropon" : > > On Sun, 19 Aug 2012 20:33:49 +0200, vermaden wrote: > > > HI, > > > > > > OpenBSD seems to have packages for everything, even > > > for LAME (audio/lame), why FreeBSD

Re: I Can Has Packages?

... I even got a screenshot of how these *flavours* and *subpackages* work, here: http://ompldr.org/vZjV2bQ "Polytropon" pisze: > On Sun, 19 Aug 2012 20:33:49 +0200, vermaden wrote: > > HI, > > > > OpenBSD seems to have packages for everything, even > &g

Re: I Can Has Packages?

Hai ;) "Polytropon" : > On Sun, 19 Aug 2012 20:33:49 +0200, vermaden wrote: > > HI, > > > > OpenBSD seems to have packages for everything, even > > for LAME (audio/lame), why FreeBSD can not provide > > package for LAME the same wa

Re: I Can Has Packages?

On Sun, 19 Aug 2012 20:33:49 +0200, vermaden wrote: > HI, > > OpenBSD seems to have packages for everything, even > for LAME (audio/lame), why FreeBSD can not provide > package for LAME the same way as OpenBSD does? j00 CAN haz pakagez. =^_^= Packages for _everything_ is imposs

I Can Has Packages?

HI, OpenBSD seems to have packages for everything, even for LAME (audio/lame), why FreeBSD can not provide package for LAME the same way as OpenBSD does? Regards, vermaden -- ... ___ freebsd-questions

Updating packages

I have tried the available package update methods. It occurred to me to experiment with a different way. I am working on a package update script in Python as an alternate way to update installed packages with latest available on the FreeBSD web site. It parses the index page of the web site and

Re: stay up to date with ports and packages, problem

On Sat, 19 May 2012, Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 19 May 2012 11:08:19 -0700 (PDT), Beastie-Boy wrote: Ok, many thanks for your replies. I forgot to tell that i recently upgraded from 8.1 to 9.0-RELEASE. That excplains maybe why i had obsolete/old packages/ports on my disk. When you do such an

Re: stay up to date with ports and packages, problem

On 19/05/2012 21:09, Polytropon wrote: >> Sorry i cant paste logs, bsd is running on another machine. > You can use SSH to log into the BSD machine and cut text from > the session. :-) Or just run: % script /tmp/session.log Do all your updating tasks, then type 'exit' when done, and you'll g

Re: stay up to date with ports and packages, problem

On Sat, 19 May 2012 11:08:19 -0700 (PDT), Beastie-Boy wrote: > Ok, many thanks for your replies. > I forgot to tell that i recently upgraded from 8.1 to 9.0-RELEASE. > That excplains maybe why i had obsolete/old packages/ports on my disk. When you do such an update (major version num

Re: stay up to date with ports and packages, problem

On 19/05/2012 20:08, Beastie-Boy wrote: > I forgot to tell that i recently upgraded from 8.1 to 9.0-RELEASE. > That excplains maybe why i had obsolete/old packages/ports on my disk. Ahah! That is exactly the situation where you do want to remove all your installed ports and rebuil

Re: stay up to date with ports and packages, problem

On Sat, 19 May 2012 19:43:09 +0100, RW wrote: > On Sat, 19 May 2012 11:08:19 -0700 (PDT) > Beastie-Boy wrote: > > > Ok, many thanks for your replies. > > I forgot to tell that i recently upgraded from 8.1 to 9.0-RELEASE. > > That excplains maybe why i had obsolete/ol

Re: stay up to date with ports and packages, problem

On Sat, 19 May 2012 11:08:19 -0700 (PDT) Beastie-Boy wrote: > Ok, many thanks for your replies. > I forgot to tell that i recently upgraded from 8.1 to 9.0-RELEASE. > That excplains maybe why i had obsolete/old packages/ports on my disk. When you cross a major OS release boundary, yo

Re: stay up to date with ports and packages, problem

Ok, many thanks for your replies. I forgot to tell that i recently upgraded from 8.1 to 9.0-RELEASE. That excplains maybe why i had obsolete/old packages/ports on my disk. The problem i had was that gdm, gnome didnt start after the upgrade. So i tried to build the gnome and gdm thing again via

Re: stay up to date with ports and packages, problem

On 19/05/2012 16:07, Warren Block wrote: > The -f is probably not needed. I've done this rarely enough to not > recall, but -a should sort everything in the right order so dependencies > are uninstalled in order. I find that 'pkg_delete -af' gives more reliable results. Agreed, it should not be

Re: stay up to date with ports and packages, problem

On Sat, 19 May 2012, Matthew Seaman wrote: That's a bit drastic and pretty much something you'ld never actually want to do in normal usage. However, for completeness' sake: # pkg_delete -af will remove all installed ports. After doing that there should be hardly anything left under /usr/lo

Re: stay up to date with ports and packages, problem

ead a lot about managing ports and > packages. > Right now i am stuck. > So, how do i delete really *all* ports and *all* packages at once? That's a bit drastic and pretty much something you'ld never actually want to do in normal usage. However, for completeness' sake:

stay up to date with ports and packages, problem

, did the fetch and extract again, problem persists still. Yes, i searched all the forums and read a lot about managing ports and packages. Right now i am stuck. So, how do i delete really *all* ports and *all* packages at once? Is it possible with doing a fectch and extract having the latest ports? I

Re: Preventing portmaster from using packages for specified ports

--On May 8, 2012 10:51:16 PM +0100 Mike Clarke wrote: > On Tuesday 08 May 2012, John Webster wrote: > >> Would this work for you?  From the manpage: >> >>      For those who wish to be sure that specific ports are always >> compiled instead of bei

Re: Preventing portmaster from using packages for specified ports

On Tuesday 08 May 2012, John Webster wrote: > Would this work for you?  From the manpage: > >      For those who wish to be sure that specific ports are always > compiled instead of being installed from packages the > PT_NO_INSTALL_PACKAGE vari- able can be defined in the make(1

Re: Preventing portmaster from using packages for specified ports

--On May 8, 2012 9:33:59 PM +0100 Mike Clarke wrote: > > I'm happy to use the -P option to let portmaster use packages for most > of my ports but there's a few that must be compiled from the port > instead because I need to configure non default options, e.g. to enable

Preventing portmaster from using packages for specified ports

I'm happy to use the -P option to let portmaster use packages for most of my ports but there's a few that must be compiled from the port instead because I need to configure non default options, e.g. to enable GIMP plugin support in graphics/xsane Is there any way of forcing por

Re: Unable to upgrade packages on FreeBSD

like 8.2-RELEASEpx? If it's a RELEASE perhaps you don't know that the packages are frozen but all are known to work without problems. Switch to -STABLE if you want access newer packages but perhaps there will be problems with them from tim

Re: Unable to upgrade packages on FreeBSD

subscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-** > unsubscr...@freebsd.org " > One thing I noticed, which may cause some trouble(?) http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-10-current/ is empty, no packages. So pkg_add fails for everything... Running 10-CURRENT I have to set P

Re: Unable to upgrade packages on FreeBSD

2012-02-01 19:16, David Jackson skrev: I did not save them, there is really no way to save a copy of them unless I copy them by hand. I take it you are new to FreeBSD. May I introduce you to script man script(1) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mail

Re: Unable to upgrade packages on FreeBSD

On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 12:51 AM, Bernt Hansson wrote: > 2012-01-30 18:52, David Jackson skrev: > > I have tried endlessly to no avail to upgrade binary the packages on >> Freebsd to the latest version. I have tried: >> >> *portupgrade -PP -a >> *portmaster -PP

Re: Unable to upgrade packages on FreeBSD

On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 12:54 AM, Bernt Hansson wrote: > 2012-01-31 01:13, > freebsd-lists-erik@**erikosterholm.orgskrev: > > Oh come on, guys. David is the same person who said that FreeBSD was >> poorly documented. >> >> http://osdir.com/ml/freebsd-**questions/2011-12/msg00684.**html

Re: Unable to upgrade packages on FreeBSD

id i will make them manually, i wanted to said that i > can add one server amd64 to the pool of automate servers that make the > packages, i think it works automatically and distribute workload like boinc > or other similar net. About the people which introduce trojans, rootkits > etc

Re: Unable to upgrade packages on FreeBSD

resource cost problems, it offers far too much opportunity for people up-to-no-good to be able to introduce trojans, spyware and so forth. No no, i didn't said i will make them manually, i wanted to said that i can add one server amd64 to the pool of automate servers that make the packag

Re: Unable to upgrade packages on FreeBSD

On 31/01/2012 09:56, Eduardo Morras wrote: > Making a resume/summary of the thread; more hardware, time and people > are needed to maintain a package system up-to-date. I have a free server > (amd64 freebsd8.2p6), if i built all packages with their standard > options, that's wi

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