Re: Port, Packages, and Patching, Upgrading

2011-12-20 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
you may want to look up this section of the handbook: Chapter 5 Installing Applications: Packages and Ports How to upgrade your applications is explained there; long story short, there are three utilities i know of that may be used to keep your applications up-to-date irrespective of the

Re: Port, Packages, and Patching, Upgrading

2011-12-20 Thread Allen
On 12/20/2011 4:19 AM, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: you may want to look up this section of the handbook: Chapter 5 Installing Applications: Packages and Ports How to upgrade your applications is explained there; I actually am doing so right now. I started cleaning out the CPU cooling system on

Re: Port, Packages, and Patching, Upgrading

2011-12-20 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 11:40 AM, Allen unix.hac...@comcast.net wrote: On 12/20/2011 4:19 AM, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: you may want to look up this section of the handbook: Chapter 5 Installing Applications: Packages and Ports How to upgrade your applications is explained there; I

Re: Port, Packages, and Patching, Upgrading

2011-12-20 Thread Allen
On 12/20/2011 6:16 AM, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: *SNIP* about FVWM2 not working on your other FreeBSD install... i'm not sure how you set up your X11 system and your window manager, but this section of the handbook, Chapter 6 The X Window System, has instructions for setting up a desktop

Re: Port, Packages, and Patching, Upgrading

2011-12-20 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 20 Dec 2011 01:19:04 -0500, Allen wrote: Hi, I've been trying to find info about this, so I'm Hoping someone here will know about this; I use FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE, and basically, the normal way I do things, is like this: I grab the CD, boot, and install the Base System. Once I've

Re: Port, Packages, and Patching, Upgrading

2011-12-20 Thread Allen
On 12/20/2011 12:20 PM, Polytropon wrote: *SNIP* I snipped out a bunch of this so that whoever reads this next doesn't have to go through all of that text all at once, but I REALLY wanted to get a chance to say this: THANK YOU! Danke schoen sehr sehr sehr!!! In all my years, I've only heard a

Re: Port, Packages, and Patching, Upgrading

2011-12-20 Thread Eduardo Morras
At 07:19 20/12/2011, you wrote: Hi, I've been trying to find info about this, so I'm Hoping someone here will know about this; I use FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE, and basically, the normal way I do things, is like this: I grab the CD, boot, and install the Base System. Once I've booted, I'll then use

Port, Packages, and Patching, Upgrading

2011-12-19 Thread Allen
Hi, I've been trying to find info about this, so I'm Hoping someone here will know about this; I use FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE, and basically, the normal way I do things, is like this: I grab the CD, boot, and install the Base System. Once I've booted, I'll then use one of the two: pkg_add -r bunch

Re: Patching a Newly-Built System

2010-03-15 Thread Martin McCormick
Nerius Landys writes: By bringing the patch level up to date I assume you mean a tag such as this one: *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_8_0 That is what I meant. in your standard-supfile file, and then doing the make buildworld etc. prodedure outlined in the Handbook. The release

Patching a Newly-Built System

2010-03-12 Thread Martin McCormick
Does it make any difference if one adds packages to a new system before or after using cvsup to bring the patch level up to date? I ask this because it takes about half an hour to go from nothing to a bootable system via a script but it can take several hours for cvsub to update the

Re: Patching a Newly-Built System

2010-03-12 Thread Nerius Landys
Does it make any difference if one adds packages to a new system before or after using cvsup to bring the patch level up to date? By bringing the patch level up to date I assume you mean a tag such as this one: *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_8_0 in your standard-supfile file, and then

Re: Patching a Newly-Built System

2010-03-12 Thread Nerius Landys
Does it make any difference if one adds packages to a new system before or after using cvsup to bring the patch level up to date? By bringing the patch level up to date I assume you mean a tag such as this one: *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_8_0 in your standard-supfile file, and then

Re: Patching? Probably a trivial question, but...

2009-05-29 Thread Steve Bertrand
Kurt Buff wrote: On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 11:36, Mel Flynn mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net wrote: On Wednesday 27 May 2009 17:21:42 Kurt Buff wrote: All, I've gotten a patch for a program in the ports tree from one of the authors of the program - not the port maintainer - to

Re: Patching? Probably a trivial question, but...

2009-05-29 Thread Kurt Buff
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 07:06, Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca wrote: Kurt Buff wrote: On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 11:36, Mel Flynn mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net wrote: On Wednesday 27 May 2009 17:21:42 Kurt Buff wrote: All, I've gotten a patch for a program in the ports tree

Patching? Probably a trivial question, but...

2009-05-27 Thread Kurt Buff
All, I've gotten a patch for a program in the ports tree from one of the authors of the program - not the port maintainer - to fix a small problem, but don't know how to install the updated port. I cd'ed into the /usr/ports/%CATEGORY%/%PROGRAM%/work/%PROGRAM-VERSION% directory, then performed

Re: Patching? Probably a trivial question, but...

2009-05-27 Thread Chris Rees
2009/5/27 Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com: All, I've gotten a patch for a program in the ports tree from one of the authors of the program - not the port maintainer - to fix a small problem, but don't know how to install the updated port. I cd'ed into the

Re: Patching? Probably a trivial question, but...

2009-05-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I've gotten a patch for a program in the ports tree from one of the authors of the program - not the port maintainer - to fix a small problem, but don't know how to install the updated port. i think it's best to add your patch to /usr/ports/blah/blah/files with name patch-something look at

Re: Patching? Probably a trivial question, but...

2009-05-27 Thread Kurt Buff
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 08:48, Chris Rees utis...@googlemail.com wrote: 2009/5/27 Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com: All, I've gotten a patch for a program in the ports tree from one of the authors of the program - not the port maintainer - to fix a small problem, but don't know how to install

Fwd: Patching? Probably a trivial question, but...

2009-05-27 Thread Kurt Buff
I really should learn to hit reply-all on these lists... Kurt On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 08:54, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: I've gotten a patch for a program in the ports tree from one of the authors of the program - not the port maintainer - to fix a small problem,

Re: Fwd: Patching? Probably a trivial question, but...

2009-05-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
with name patch-something look at existing as an example That didn't seem to work. what exactly doesn't? could you please post error messages? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Patching? Probably a trivial question, but...

2009-05-27 Thread Chris Rees
Er, I also need to learn that reply-all skill! This'll make for easy understanding in the Archives 2009/5/27 Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com: On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 08:48, Chris Rees utis...@googlemail.com wrote: 2009/5/27 Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com: All, I've gotten a patch for a

Re: Fwd: Patching? Probably a trivial question, but...

2009-05-27 Thread Kurt Buff
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 09:23, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: with name patch-something look at existing as an example That didn't seem to work. what exactly doesn't? could you please post error messages? There were no error messages. Then, being the incredibly

Re: Fwd: Patching? Probably a trivial question, but...

2009-05-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
time after taking the blindingly obvious step of deleting the 'work' directory. This seems to be a key part of the process. The patch doesn't install correctly, as the make process generates the it installs correctly for sure :) as you don't see errors following: HttpHeader.cc:127:

Re: Fwd: Patching? Probably a trivial question, but...

2009-05-27 Thread Kurt Buff
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 09:41, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: time after taking the blindingly obvious step of deleting the 'work' directory. This seems to be a key part of the process. The patch doesn't install correctly, as the make process generates the it

Re: Fwd: Patching? Probably a trivial question, but...

2009-05-27 Thread Steve Bertrand
Kurt Buff wrote: On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 09:23, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: with name patch-something look at existing as an example That didn't seem to work. what exactly doesn't? could you please post error messages? There were no error messages. Then,

Re: Fwd: Patching? Probably a trivial question, but...

2009-05-27 Thread Kurt Buff
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 09:51, Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca wrote: Can you post the patch, and I'll test it out here? (Forgive me if you've done this and I missed it). Steve Sent off-list. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Fwd: Patching? Probably a trivial question, but...

2009-05-27 Thread Steve Bertrand
Kurt Buff wrote: On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 09:51, Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca wrote: Can you post the patch, and I'll test it out here? (Forgive me if you've done this and I missed it). Steve Sent off-list. Ok, got it. I'm pretty much taking an easy day today to recover my broken

Re: Fwd: Patching? Probably a trivial question, but...

2009-05-27 Thread Steve Bertrand
Kurt Buff wrote: On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 09:51, Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca wrote: Can you post the patch, and I'll test it out here? (Forgive me if you've done this and I missed it). Steve Sent off-list. Kurt, can you please provide: # uname -a - the default tag you use in your

Re: Fwd: Patching? Probably a trivial question, but...

2009-05-27 Thread Kurt Buff
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 11:02, Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca wrote: Kurt Buff wrote: On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 09:51, Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca wrote: Can you post the patch, and I'll test it out here? (Forgive me if you've done this and I missed it). Steve Sent off-list. Kurt,

Re: Fwd: Patching? Probably a trivial question, but...

2009-05-27 Thread Steve Bertrand
Kurt Buff wrote: On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 11:02, Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca wrote: Kurt Buff wrote: On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 09:51, Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca wrote: Can you post the patch, and I'll test it out here? (Forgive me if you've done this and I missed it). Steve Sent

Re: Patching? Probably a trivial question, but...

2009-05-27 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 27 May 2009 17:21:42 Kurt Buff wrote: All, I've gotten a patch for a program in the ports tree from one of the authors of the program - not the port maintainer - to fix a small problem, but don't know how to install the updated port. I cd'ed into the

Re: Patching? Probably a trivial question, but...

2009-05-27 Thread Kurt Buff
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 11:36, Mel Flynn mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net wrote: On Wednesday 27 May 2009 17:21:42 Kurt Buff wrote: All, I've gotten a patch for a program in the ports tree from one of the authors of the program - not the port maintainer - to fix a small problem,

Re: Patching / Updating / Upgrading

2009-02-03 Thread Akenner
*Snipping for those who don't want to have an inbox full of my text, and out of being polite* Thanks very much! I've been thinking about setting up another FreeBSD machine so I can test both CVS and FreeBSD-update without mixing the two together which from what I hear is a bad idea, and I

Re: Patching / Updating / Upgrading

2009-02-03 Thread RW
On Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:30:14 +0200 DA Forsyth d.fors...@ru.ac.za wrote: use RELEASE for a production server, STABLE on a desktop or test machine. IMHO I'd say follow what it says in the handbook and use a release unless you have a good reason to use stable, such as support for a particular

re: Patching / Updating / Upgrading

2009-02-03 Thread DA Forsyth
Message: 4 Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2009 16:37:14 -0500 From: Akenner slackwarew...@comcast.net Subject: Patching / Updating / Upgrading To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Hello all, So if anyone could lend a little but in typing out what they use for updates and how they go about it, I'd appreciate

Patching / Updating / Upgrading

2009-02-02 Thread Akenner
Hello all, I've been using this list to my advantage for a while to learn things I can't seem to grasp, and I've gotten great amounts of help. I have a question in regards to the process of patching / Updating / Upgrading I'd like a hand with. I have two machines running FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE

Re: Patching / Updating / Upgrading

2009-02-02 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Akenner wrote: Hello all, I've been using this list to my advantage for a while to learn things I can't seem to grasp, and I've gotten great amounts of help. I have a question in regards to the process of patching / Updating / Upgrading I'd like a hand with. I have two machines running

Patching php port

2008-10-01 Thread Tamar Lea
Hello all I am trying to install the php 5.2.6 port with thttpd. I have a patch file to make it compile with version 2.25b, because the standard version only works with 2.21. The patch works but the files always get overwritten when I run the build again. How do I do this? These are the commands

Re: Patching php port

2008-10-01 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 11:37:29AM +0100, Tamar Lea wrote: Hello all I am trying to install the php 5.2.6 port with thttpd. I have a patch file to make it compile with version 2.25b, because the standard version only works with 2.21. The patch works but the files always get overwritten when

Re: Patching php port

2008-10-01 Thread Tamar Lea
Thanks for your reply, Jeremy. I now understand why it didn't work, but I have absolutely no idea how to edit configure.in. I have only just figured out what my patch is doing today. I think it would be easier to tell the makefile to modify configure after the autoconf, but I don't know how to do

Re: Patching php port

2008-10-01 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 01:14:03PM +0100, Tamar Lea wrote: Thanks for your reply, Jeremy. I now understand why it didn't work, but I have absolutely no idea how to edit configure.in. I have only just figured out what my patch is doing today. I think it would be easier to tell the makefile to

Re: BIND DNS Patching on 6.1, 6.2

2008-09-01 Thread Matthew Seaman
Grant Peel wrote: Hi all, Thanks to Lars I have come up with the following (to upgrade BIND for the DNS caching issue)...(short of updateing all source). Download the latest port BIND95.9.5.x (p2 I think), 9.5.0.2 -- correct. Extract it to the ports directory, make -DWITH_REPLACE_BASE

Re: BIND DNS Patching on 6.1, 6.2

2008-08-31 Thread Grant Peel
correct? Also, Will the installation leave all my current (BIND) configs alone? -Grant - Original Message - From: Lars Kristiansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: gpeel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 29, 2008 8:38 PM Subject: Re: BIND DNS Patching on 6.1, 6.2 gpeel

Re: BIND DNS Patching on 6.1, 6.2

2008-08-30 Thread Grant Peel
- From: Lars Kristiansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: gpeel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 29, 2008 8:38 PM Subject: Re: BIND DNS Patching on 6.1, 6.2 gpeel skrev: I was thinking I would try the BIND959.5.0 port, but it apprears that this version is still vulneralbe

Re: BIND DNS Patching on 6.1, 6.2

2008-08-30 Thread Lars Kristiansen
-oarc.net TXT will hopefully now give a result that includes the word GREAT. Lars - Original Message - From: Lars Kristiansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: gpeel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 29, 2008 8:38 PM Subject: Re: BIND DNS Patching on 6.1, 6.2 gpeel skrev: I

BIND DNS Patching on 6.1, 6.2

2008-08-29 Thread gpeel
Hi all, I have ten webservers that I would like nothing more than to update to 6.3 or 7.x But right now I just dont have time. I was wondering if anyone has tried the patches BIND DNS Poioning listed on the freebsd homepage (security advisories) on 6.1 and/or 6.2 and if they worked OK.

Re: BIND DNS Patching on 6.1, 6.2

2008-08-29 Thread gpeel
Hi Again, When I posted this question originally, I had forgotten that I had a devel server running FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE. I tried the 6.3 patch, and it would not make properly. I was thinking I would try the BIND959.5.0 port, but it apprears that this version is still vulneralbe. So I suppose

Re: BIND DNS Patching on 6.1, 6.2

2008-08-29 Thread Lars Kristiansen
gpeel skrev: I was thinking I would try the BIND959.5.0 port, but it apprears that this version is still vulneralbe. The port dns/bind95 is patched: $ named -version BIND 9.5.0-P2 Easily installed with the option WITH_REPLACE_BASE. Regards, Lars

error when patching cyrus-imapd-2.3.11 port

2008-03-30 Thread David Newman
Greetings. I'm building a cyrus-imapd 2.3.11 server from ports on FreeBSD 7.0/i386. I'm also using these two University of Athens patches: http://email.uoa.gr/download/cyrus/cyrus-imapd-2.3.11/cyrus-imapd-2.3.11-autocreate-0.10-0.diff

Re: Updating/patching network card driver?

2007-12-19 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Nomad [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I installed FreeBSD 6.2 on my computer but the network card (bge) wasn't detected properly. On troubleshooting the problem I found the driver for this family of NICs isn't appropriate to my particular release. I would prefer to stay with the RELEASE branch

Re: Updating/patching network card driver?

2007-12-19 Thread Tim Kellers
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Nomad [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I installed FreeBSD 6.2 on my computer but the network card (bge) wasn't detected properly. On troubleshooting the problem I found the driver for this family of NICs isn't appropriate to my particular release. I would prefer to stay

Updating/patching network card driver?

2007-12-18 Thread Nomad
I installed FreeBSD 6.2 on my computer but the network card (bge) wasn't detected properly. On troubleshooting the problem I found the driver for this family of NICs isn't appropriate to my particular release. I would prefer to stay with the RELEASE branch but found an updated driver. In

Re: Patching with freebsd-update from 6.2-RELEASE-p4 to 6.2-RELEASE-p5

2007-07-10 Thread Stevan Tiefert
Am Montag, den 09.07.2007, 19:16 -0400 schrieb Gerard: On July 09, 2007 at 04:59PM Stevan Tiefert wrote: What is going wrong? Why he is not updating? You should check out these two URL's to get a better idea of what you are attempting to do as well as how to accomplish it.

Re: Patching with freebsd-update from 6.2-RELEASE-p4 to 6.2-RELEASE-p5

2007-07-10 Thread Stevan Tiefert
Am Montag, den 09.07.2007, 17:11 -0700 schrieb Jay Chandler: Stevan Tiefert wrote: What is going wrong? Why he is not updating? Really dumb question-- have you tried rebooting to commit the uname -a display change? Really dumb answer. Yes I did!

Re: Patching with freebsd-update from 6.2-RELEASE-p4 to 6.2-RELEASE-p5

2007-07-10 Thread Stevan Tiefert
Am Montag, den 09.07.2007, 17:37 -0500 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 09/07/07, Stevan Tiefert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello list, I wanted to update via freebsd-update from 6.2-RELEASE-p4 to 6.2-RELEASE-p5. But like you can see my system is after the update still p4! I have saved a

Re: Patching with freebsd-update from 6.2-RELEASE-p4 to 6.2-RELEASE-p5

2007-07-10 Thread Colin Percival
Stevan Tiefert wrote: The problem is that in these two chapters of the handbook is not handling freebsd-update... And if you use freebsd-update you need not necessarily to do a buildkernel or buildworld. I've been meaning to write a handbook chapter about FreeBSD Update for many months, but

Patching with freebsd-update from 6.2-RELEASE-p4 to 6.2-RELEASE-p5

2007-07-09 Thread Stevan Tiefert
Hello list, I wanted to update via freebsd-update from 6.2-RELEASE-p4 to 6.2-RELEASE-p5. But like you can see my system is after the update still p4! I have saved a script of my doing: Script started on Mon Jul 9 22:55:13 2007 vagabund# freebsd-update fetch Looking up update.FreeBSD.org

Re: Patching with freebsd-update from 6.2-RELEASE-p4 to 6.2-RELEASE-p5

2007-07-09 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Stevan Tiefert wrote: Hello list, I wanted to update via freebsd-update from 6.2-RELEASE-p4 to 6.2-RELEASE-p5. But like you can see my system is after the update still p4! I have saved a script of my doing: Script started on Mon Jul 9 22:55:13 2007 vagabund# freebsd-update fetch

Re: Patching with freebsd-update from 6.2-RELEASE-p4 to 6.2-RELEASE-p5

2007-07-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 09/07/07, Stevan Tiefert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello list, I wanted to update via freebsd-update from 6.2-RELEASE-p4 to 6.2-RELEASE-p5. But like you can see my system is after the update still p4! I have saved a script of my doing: Script started on Mon Jul 9 22:55:13 2007 vagabund#

Re: Patching with freebsd-update from 6.2-RELEASE-p4 to 6.2-RELEASE-p5

2007-07-09 Thread Gerard
On July 09, 2007 at 04:59PM Stevan Tiefert wrote: What is going wrong? Why he is not updating? You should check out these two URL's to get a better idea of what you are attempting to do as well as how to accomplish it.

Re: Patching with freebsd-update from 6.2-RELEASE-p4 to 6.2-RELEASE-p5

2007-07-09 Thread Jay Chandler
Stevan Tiefert wrote: What is going wrong? Why he is not updating? Really dumb question-- have you tried rebooting to commit the uname -a display change? -- Jay Chandler Systems Exorcist ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

restarting sendmail after patching - help needed.

2006-04-11 Thread Ensel Sharon
Hello, I am patching for the recent sendmail advisory: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:13.sendmail.asc I have followed the patching instructions: b) Execute the following commands as root

Re: restarting sendmail after patching - help needed.

2006-04-11 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 11 April 2006 16:35, Ensel Sharon wrote: Hello, I am patching for the recent sendmail advisory: snip and now all I need to do is restart sendmail so that the new binaries are loaded and running. I _think_ the correct method is: cd /etc/mail make restart You are correct

Re: Patching a port

2005-12-16 Thread Ian Moore
On Friday 16 December 2005 18:18, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote: On 2005-12-16, Ian Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having some trouble with the www/sarg port. The writer has sent me a=20 couple of .patch files to apply and I'm wondering if there's some way to=20 apply those patches and

Patching a port

2005-12-15 Thread Ian Moore
Hi, I'm having some trouble with the www/sarg port. The writer has sent me a couple of .patch files to apply and I'm wondering if there's some way to apply those patches and still use the ports system to build install the port. I know the source code installs stuff in places that aren't the

Re: Patching a port

2005-12-15 Thread Markus Trippelsdorf
On 2005-12-16, Ian Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having some trouble with the www/sarg port. The writer has sent me a=20 couple of .patch files to apply and I'm wondering if there's some way to=20 apply those patches and still use the ports system to build install the=20 port. I know

Re: Problem while patching a file

2005-11-29 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Guillaume R. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm trying to install the last version of emacs (to test Gnus!) on my box. I've got a compil error, I made a search and found that thread: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2005-September/025703.html By reading the thread I could deduce

Problem while patching a file

2005-11-28 Thread Guillaume R.
Hello I'm trying to install the last version of emacs (to test Gnus!) on my box. I've got a compil error, I made a search and found that thread: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2005-September/025703.html By reading the thread I could deduce that this patch seems to work fine. I

Basic FreeBSD firewall and patching questions.

2005-10-20 Thread Daniel Pittman
G'day. I am quite new with supporting FreeBSD, although well experienced with Unix and Linux in general, so I hope these questions are not too silly. My first question is about firewalls: I have read the FreeBSD handbook and browsed the ports database, etc, to find out about firewalling. It

Re: Basic FreeBSD firewall and patching questions.

2005-10-20 Thread Erik Norgaard
think patching should be done for smaller updates and security patches. You might try that next time. So: how can I bring this up to the latest stable release in the 5.4 series? Check the handbook Chp 20. For production servers, in particular if they are critical like firewalls, you want to go

Re: Basic FreeBSD firewall and patching questions.

2005-10-20 Thread Erik Norgaard
On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Foo Ji-Haw wrote: Thanks for the brief breakdown on ipf and ipfilter. But what about ipfw? I like the 'auto-swap ruleset' feature, as well as account. Does ipfw do them as well? Thanks. No idea, never used it and I donĀ“t plan to. I'm using pf now, it does what I need

Re: Basic FreeBSD firewall and patching questions.

2005-10-20 Thread Francisco Reyes
Daniel Pittman wrote: It looks to me like either ipf or ipfilter are equally good, and have about the same capabilities, While you are getting started and to test rules you could use /etc/hosts.allow also. You may already be familiar with it from other OSs.. We use to keep a list of what

Patching to FreeBSD 5.4-p7

2005-10-09 Thread Deepak Naidu
Hi, I want to know ow to upgarde or patch my FreeBSD 5.4 version to FreeBSD 5.4-p7 Cheers, Deepak Naidu. - How much free photo storage do you get? Store your holiday snaps for FREE with Yahoo! Photos. Get Yahoo! Photos

Re: Patching to FreeBSD 5.4-p7

2005-10-09 Thread David Kirchner
On 10/9/05, Deepak Naidu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I want to know ow to upgarde or patch my FreeBSD 5.4 version to FreeBSD 5.4-p7 Cheers, Deepak Naidu. The common response to this is that it's in the handbook. I'm trying to find it there, though, and am having a lot of trouble.

Re: Patching to FreeBSD 5.4-p7

2005-10-09 Thread Micah
David Kirchner wrote: On 10/9/05, Deepak Naidu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I want to know ow to upgarde or patch my FreeBSD 5.4 version to FreeBSD 5.4-p7 Cheers, Deepak Naidu. The common response to this is that it's in the handbook. I'm trying to find it there, though, and am having

patching a file with blanks in the name

2005-06-10 Thread Mikhail Teterin
How does one make a patch for a while, that has blanks in the path: --- foo bar/meow~ Fri Mar 11 09:00:49 2005 +++ foo bar/meowFri Jun 10 12:17:22 2005 - a = 0; + a = 1; With the above example, patch searches only for `foo', then gives up and asks for help. I tried

Re: patching a file with blanks in the name

2005-06-10 Thread Chuck Swiger
Mikhail Teterin wrote: How does one make a patch for a while, that has blanks in the path: --- foo bar/meow~ Fri Mar 11 09:00:49 2005 +++ foo bar/meowFri Jun 10 12:17:22 2005 - a = 0; + a = 1; With the above example, patch searches only for `foo', then gives up and

Re: patching a file with blanks in the name

2005-06-10 Thread Mikhail Teterin
--- foo bar/meow~ Fri Mar 11 09:00:49 2005 +++ foo bar/meowFri Jun 10 12:17:22 2005 - a = 0; + a = 1; With the above example patch searches only for `foo', then gives up and asks for help. I tried quoting the entire file name and escaping the blanks with backslashes --

patching via the SA's

2005-04-22 Thread Chris
If one patches the system per the SA's (Security Advisories) is it possible to reproduce the the RELEASE-p(x) output you get when you cvsup the src etc.? -- Best regards, Chris When putting it into memory, remember where you put it. ___

Re: Patching

2004-11-19 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 01:43:00AM -0500, RL wrote: Hi, if you update your source tree through cvsup now and them, is it still necessary to follow the FreeBSD security advisories and patch your system? In others words, when you cvsup the source through RELENG_5_3 and make the world, does it

Patching

2004-11-18 Thread RL
Hi, if you update your source tree through cvsup now and them, is it still necessary to follow the FreeBSD security advisories and patch your system? In others words, when you cvsup the source through RELENG_5_3 and make the world, does it include all the security patches you see at FreeBSD.org?

Patching ports

2004-05-05 Thread Mikkel Christensen
Hi How do I add a patch to a certain port? Usually I would use the patch program to add the patch to the source code. But when using ports the system begins compiling right after rewtrieving the source. Thus not giving me a change to apply the patch. I've seen a folder named files in which

Re: Patching ports

2004-05-05 Thread Bill Moran
Mikkel Christensen wrote: Hi How do I add a patch to a certain port? Usually I would use the patch program to add the patch to the source code. But when using ports the system begins compiling right after rewtrieving the source. Thus not giving me a change to apply the patch. I've seen a folder

Re: Patching ports

2004-05-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 12:11:22PM +, Mikkel Christensen wrote: How do I add a patch to a certain port? Usually I would use the patch program to add the patch to the source code. But when using ports the system begins compiling right after rewtrieving the source. Thus not giving me a

Re: Patching ports

2004-05-05 Thread Mikkel Christensen
On Wednesday 05 May 2004 12:29, Matthew Seaman wrote: On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 12:11:22PM +, Mikkel Christensen wrote: How do I add a patch to a certain port? Usually I would use the patch program to add the patch to the source code. But when using ports the system begins compiling

Re: Patching ports

2004-05-05 Thread Simon Barner
Hi, How do I add a patch to a certain port? Usually I would use the patch program to add the patch to the source code. But when using ports the system begins compiling right after rewtrieving the source. Thus not giving me a change to apply the patch. I've seen a folder named files in which

Re: Security Updates and Patching Two Choices?

2004-03-30 Thread Chuck Swiger
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2004-03-29 15:07, Charles Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 29, 2004, at 2:28 PM, Sean Murphy wrote: [ ... ] If a tag just the 4_9 Release in the CVSupfile can i just ignore the mergemaster? also can I just CVSup the sources and build the ones I want? (see above)

Re: Security Updates and Patching Two Choices?

2004-03-30 Thread Joshua Lokken
* Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-03-30 11:14]: Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2004-03-29 15:07, Charles Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 29, 2004, at 2:28 PM, Sean Murphy wrote: [ ... ] If a tag just the 4_9 Release in the CVSupfile can i just ignore the mergemaster? also can I just

Security Updates and Patching Two Choices?

2004-03-29 Thread Sean Murphy
I would like to stay patched with the latest security advisories. However usually I wait until the next release iso becomes available and do a fresh install that includes all the known exploites. My reason behind this is the makeworld, CVSup, and mergemaster is very time

Re: Security Updates and Patching Two Choices?

2004-03-29 Thread Chris
On Monday 29 March 2004 01:28 pm, Sean Murphy wrote: I would like to stay patched with the latest security advisories. However usually I wait until the next release iso becomes available and do a fresh install that includes all the known exploites. My reason behind this is the makeworld,

Re: Security Updates and Patching Two Choices?

2004-03-29 Thread Charles Swiger
On Mar 29, 2004, at 2:28 PM, Sean Murphy wrote: I don't want to build all sources when I just need these on my system (bin, man, and crypto). The same selection I use from a new install from /stand/sysinstall. Is that possible? If you look at /etc/default/make.conf for a bunch of components

Re: Security Updates and Patching Two Choices?

2004-03-29 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-03-29 15:07, Charles Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 29, 2004, at 2:28 PM, Sean Murphy wrote: I don't want to build all sources when I just need these on my system (bin, man, and crypto). The same selection I use from a new install from /stand/sysinstall. Is that possible? If

jail - updating/patching

2004-03-21 Thread Chad M Stewart
I've got my first jail up and working, installed Apache and just generally poking around. There is one area of jail management that I've not found any documentation for. How does one keep it up to date? Keeping things from ports updated is straight forward, the same as any real host. I'm

Re: jail - updating/patching

2004-03-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 10:22:54AM -0500, Chad M Stewart wrote: I've got my first jail up and working, installed Apache and just generally poking around. There is one area of jail management that I've not found any documentation for. How does one keep it up to date? Keeping things

Patching the system

2004-02-23 Thread MHA
Hi all (and excuse my English, please) I need to patch script (/usr/src/usr.bin/script - /usr/bin/script), but I don't know how to do it correctly. Here is the patch and the bug report: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=56166 I think script is the problem, I have some errors with

portupgrade for python fails: patching doesn't work

2003-10-29 Thread David Fleck
,^.*$,#!/usr/local/bin/python2.3,' /usr/ports/lang/python/work/Python-2.3/Tools/scripts/idle /usr/ports/lang/python/work/idle2.3 === Patching for python-2.3.2 === python-2.3.2 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/sed_inplace - found === Applying FreeBSD patches for python-2.3.2 1 out of 2 hunks failed

patching a device driver

2003-10-27 Thread carmoda
Hi, I have found some instructions on how to patch a device driver [so as to get an onboard network card to get picked up]. I was wondering if anyone had any instructions on how to go about adding the patch, i have never done it before... [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Patching source in a port

2003-10-20 Thread Rob
. Have a look at file:/usr/share/doc/en/books/porters-handbook/index.html for all the details. - Original Message - From: Jamie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Patching source in a port Is it possible to patch the source code in a port, and then make, make install again to get it to install

Patching source in a port

2003-10-19 Thread Jamie
Is it possible to patch the source code in a port, and then make, make install again to get it to install the patched code? I tried applying the sendmail patch. I had previously installed 8.12.9 from ports. This is basically what I did: cd

Re: Patching sshd in FreeBSD 4.7

2003-10-09 Thread Lowell Gilbert
patching before, I could use some help. I can't see why the patch would fail, but it looks like you should be able to easily make the change by hand (putting the later-dated string in the file). Or you could ignore it -- it doesn't really affect anything

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