Re: Horrible installer

2012-01-24 Thread claudiu vasadi
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 7:42 AM, Stas Verberkt lego...@legolasweb.nlwrote: On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 11:24:20PM +0100, claudiu vasadi wrote: From my point of view, I would like to see 2 major things in bsdinstall: 1) ZFS support 2) an option, to use GUI or text mode installer (similar to

Re: portmaster best practices

2012-01-24 Thread Victor Sudakov
Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote: If portaudit shows that some installed packages have vulnerabilities, what do you usually do? Greatly depend on where am I. All my systems are staying up-to-date whereas when I'm visiting someones system I prefer to update only required pieces of software.

Re: portmaster best practices

2012-01-24 Thread Victor Sudakov
Roland Smith wrote: If portaudit shows that some installed packages have vulnerabilities, what do you usually do? It depends on the vulnerability and what the package does. I will de-install it if I think that the vulnerability is critical for me and there is no workaround. Look at

Re: portmaster best practices

2012-01-24 Thread Volodymyr Kostyrko
Victor Sudakov wrote: If portaudit shows that some installed packages have vulnerabilities, what do you usually do? Greatly depend on where am I. All my systems are staying up-to-date whereas when I'm visiting someones system I prefer to update only required pieces of software. Anyway if you

Re: Applying local patches after updating FreeBSD source

2012-01-24 Thread Maxim Khitrov
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Maxim Khitrov m...@mxcrypt.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: On 23/01/2012 18:03, Maxim Khitrov wrote: Hi all, When I need to apply a custom patch to a port, I can set EXTRA_PATCHES make

FW: Makeopts DEBUG=-g kernel option

2012-01-24 Thread Dirk Kotze
Hi there I'm experiencing the following problem: All is well when I boot the standard FreeBSD 8.2 GENERIC kernel.  The moment however when I comment out the line the line below, the kernel hangs upon boot after detecting the em0 device (the motherboard has 2 Intel 8257x dual Gigabit Ethernet

Re: lang/lua fails to build on 9.0-STABLE amd64 - bug or config issue?

2012-01-24 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 24 January 2012 02:12, Christer Solskogen christer.solsko...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 12:22 AM, Lee Thomas lthomas_li...@lthomas.net wrote: Hello fellow FreeBSD users, I ran across an odd issue compiling lua from ports on amd64 with FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE, and I'm not sure

Re: NetGear WG511T and WPA support on FreeBSD 8.2

2012-01-24 Thread _
Bought the card in the meantime and got done testing it. Works just fine. The card is specifically listed on: man 4 ath_hal Saw this later as I only checked man 4 ath... Thanks for the update though. On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 3:02 PM, Hans Ottevanger h...@beastielabs.netwrote: On 01/13/12

FreeBSD 9 and 3G Modems

2012-01-24 Thread Odhiambo Washington
I am Google-ing for a recent definitive HOWTO use my 3G modem with FreeBSD/PC-BSD and what I get seem rather old. Someone can point me to a recent document detailing the steps. I have PC-BSD 9 on my laptop. -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _

Re: FreeBSD 9 and 3G Modems

2012-01-24 Thread Mike Tancsa
On 1/24/2012 10:56 AM, Odhiambo Washington wrote: I am Google-ing for a recent definitive HOWTO use my 3G modem with FreeBSD/PC-BSD and what I get seem rather old. Someone can point me to a recent document detailing the steps. I have PC-BSD 9 on my laptop. Most of them just come up as cuaU*

Re: Applying local patches after updating FreeBSD source

2012-01-24 Thread Conrad J. Sabatier
On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:13:49 -0500 Maxim Khitrov m...@mxcrypt.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: On 23/01/2012 18:03, Maxim Khitrov wrote: Hi all, When I need to apply a custom patch to a port, I can set EXTRA_PATCHES make

Question about block size

2012-01-24 Thread Janos Dohanics
Hello Everyone, I seem to remember a thread which I can't find now which discussed the long time it takes to make freebsd-snapshots on large disks. I also seem to remember that one suggestion was to use larger block size. I have a pair of 2 TB hard drives assembled in a gmirror, which is to be

Re: portmaster best practices

2012-01-24 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 03:49:05PM +0700, Victor Sudakov wrote: Generally I like to run 'portsnap fetch update' followed by 'portmaster -ai' (after reading /usr/ports/UPDATING) every week. This keeps the number of huge compilefests (like gettext updates :-() to a minimum. Has

Re: zpool detach pool device

2012-01-24 Thread Fritz Wuehler
All DBAN does is write {whatever-source-you-choose} to the drive basically with dd (it's actually a separate wrapper program but it behaves identically to dd). Just use dd and avoid the hassle of downloading and burning a cd that does dd. dban is nice if you have to do a garage full of