internet setup

2003-10-29 Thread B F
Hi, I just started using FreeBSD and am new to all things non-Windows so please bear with me. I am having trouble getting my internet connection working. I have installed FreeBSD 4.8. It shares a switch with my Windows machine: FreeBSD machine | | \|/ Switch--Cable

Re: freebsd for children

2009-12-25 Thread b. f.
Anton Shterenlikht wrote: Can somebody recommend a graphical port which could be used to teach kids 6-8 years programming? I know it's a very vague question, but what I have in mind (possibly) is say an interpreter linked with some graphical enviroment, perhaps drawing with commands, or making

Re: clicky driver

2009-12-26 Thread b. f.
Anybody know how I can redirect the beep to my speakers? I miss the confirmation that vi/vim puts out. Outside of X, our kbdcontrol(1) offers pitch and duration (but not volume) control for the console bell via the -b flag. The volume is often dependent upon the hardware and/or

Re: clicky driver

2009-12-27 Thread b. f.
On 12/27/09, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 02:11:55AM -0500, b. f. wrote: A BEL-per-key drove me beyond the limits back in '99; that isn't the answer, but to key a truncated bell, a click, at something well below middle-C: yes, this kind

Re: Looking for a convenient way in C to retrieve CPU and memory usage of a process

2009-12-27 Thread b. f.
I am looking for a convenient way using C to retrieve the current CPU and memory utilization of a process of which I have the pid. Can somebody please give me a hint of which system-calls/library-functions to use for this ? I don't want to use the system() function or grep for information via the

Re: Package Size Discrepency

2009-12-27 Thread b. f.
Why is gcc42 from: ftp://ftp3.ca.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7-stable/Latest/gcc42.tbz ~66.6Mbs and has libobjc.so.2 but gcc42 from: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7-stable/Latest/gcc42.tbz ~18.9 and doesn't have this library? Thanks, jlc Probably because

Re: pkgtools and xz compressor

2010-01-09 Thread b. f.
I notice FreeBSD 7.2's pkg_add, pkg_create, etc don't have support for the xz compressor, evidently due to lack of support for the xz format in bsdtar. Does bsdtar support xz in FreeBSD 8.0? Failing that, is xz support for the pkgtools something being looked at in future? Yes, we know, we

Re: Dislike the way port conflicts are handled now

2010-01-16 Thread b. f.
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 11:57:35PM -0500, Greg Larkin typed: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Craig Whipp wrote: On Jan 15, 2010, at 9:44 AM, Kirk Strauser wrote: Until recently, it seems like port dependencies were handled at installation time. Lately, they're handled

Re: Dislike the way port conflicts are handled now

2010-01-16 Thread b. f.
Since some folks like the old behavior and some folks like the new behavior, what do you all think of a user-selectable make.conf option to choose where the check-conflicts target appears in the port build sequence? Regards, Greg I'd love that. The new behavior isn't a bad default, but it

Re: Dislike the way port conflicts are handled now

2010-01-16 Thread b. f.
On 1/16/10, Pav Lucistnik p...@freebsd.org wrote: Greg Larkin píše v so 16. 01. 2010 v 13:58 -0500: That's exactly what I proposed. The bsd.port.mk could be patched to support a new variable (EARLY_CONFLICT_CHECK=yes or somesuch) that shifts the check-conflict target from its old position

Re: Dislike the way port conflicts are handled now

2010-01-17 Thread b. f.
On 1/17/10, Martin Wilke m...@freebsd.org wrote: On Sun, 17 Jan 2010 11:44:05 +0100 Pav Lucistnik p...@freebsd.org wrote: Greg Larkin píše v so 16. 01. 2010 v 18:02 -0500: I will agree that `portupgrade -o` is way too useful feature. I'd vote for reverting to the old behaviour.

Re: Dislike the way port conflicts are handled now

2010-01-18 Thread b. f.
Argh! Stop! I wish that people who felt the need to add to this thread would read the prior posts beforehand, and consider their comments before posting. To answer two previous posts: I believe that he is talking about changing _when_ the check for conflicts is made; whereas DISABLE_CONFLICTS

Re: make delete-old make delete-old-libs

2010-01-22 Thread b. f.
Matthew Seaman wrote: mikel king wrote: I had a system that was royally borked after upgrading and completing these steps a few years ago. Ever since I have always skipped these steps. Has anyone else experienced any issues with these two steps? What do you mean by borked? If you mean that

Re: How to use an older version of gcc?

2010-01-28 Thread b. f.
gfot wrote: ... yes i know i can call it gcc34 but the real problem is that the toolchain has some scripts to automate the building and it uses some paths to pick up the appropriate tools and when i run the scripts gcc42 is used. I figure out that the path that gcc42 is located is the same as

Re: Nehelem 64 bit, kern conf and /etc/make.conf

2010-01-31 Thread b. f.
I just installed FreeBSD 8.0 (amd64) onto my new Nehalem-based system. CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU L5506 @ 2.13GHz (2128.00-MHz K8-class CPU) Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0x106a5 Stepping = 5

Re: A question on syntax in /etc/login.conf

2010-02-01 Thread b. f.
... Is it the colon or pipe sign that is correct? /Leslie The answer is clearly set forth in login.conf(5): Records in a class capabilities database consist of a number of colon- separated fields. The first entry for each record gives one or more names that a record is to be known

Re: Disabling openssl from ports

2010-02-03 Thread b. f.
OK, this /should/ work. Add the following to /etc/make.conf: WITH_OPENSSL_BASE= yes .if ${.CURDIR:M*/www/pound} WITH_OPENSSL_PORT= yes .endif No, it won't -- at least, if you leave it in make.conf after building www/pound, it wil break all subsequent rebuilds of all other ports that

Re: fixing up port dependencies properly

2010-02-03 Thread b. f.
John W wrote: I updated my ports tree with csup, and tried to run 'portmaster -na'. It gave me this: === The mail/p5-Email-Simple-Creator port has been deleted: Folded into p5-Email-Simple package Ok, that makes sense. But what do I do to fix it? It seems I need to replace dependencies on

Re: fixing up port dependencies properly

2010-02-03 Thread b. f.
On 2/3/10, b. f. bf1...@googlemail.com wrote: John W wrote: -o , or portupgrade -o, which will succeed in the simplest cases. You could also do it manually, by using sed(1) to substitute every occurrence of the old PKGNAME with the new PKGNAME in the @pkgdep lines in /var/db/pkg/*/+COMMENTS

Re: why update...

2010-02-06 Thread b. f.
...if is doesn't work??? It is not the first time and I think the last too but I have a question anywhere: The problem is jpeg 8.0 which need to update many ports. It is not a problem if works. But if doesn't which is my case that is a problem. As I sent a previous mails about problem to rebuilt

Re: portupgrade

2010-02-08 Thread b. f.
László wrote: Thank you everybody! Actually I use cvsup, and it is up to date, but now I give a try with portsnap. It sounds like your index file or your portsdb are older than the rest of your ports tree. Try running 'portsdb -Fu'. b. ___

Re: portupgrade

2010-02-08 Thread b. f.
This can happen if the ports tree or index file is outdated. csup/portsnap, run pkgdb -Fu, and try it again. I think you meant 'portsdb -Fu'. The pkgtools often run 'pkgdb -u' and 'pkgdb -aF' automatically, and a full-blown 'pkgdb -F' or 'pkgdb -L' usually isn't required unless there is an

Re: Should root partition be first partition?

2010-02-08 Thread b. f.
You can even leave gaps between partitions if you want, but that is pretty crazy since it just wastes some of the available space. There have been quite a lot of recommendations on how to lay out a disk for best performance, based on the observation that disk access times vary depending on how

Re: Should root partition be first partition?

2010-02-08 Thread b. f.
On 2/8/10, Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 02:37:30PM -0500, b. f. wrote: You can even leave gaps between partitions if you want, but that is pretty crazy since it just wastes some of the available space. There have been quite a lot of recommendations

Re: display and manipulate math symbols?

2010-02-09 Thread b. f.
Is there any app or web site where you can select from a bunch of math symbols and arrange them on-screen? I'm not talking about a program to solve; just display. And i think you can describe things in english like sqrt(2) in OOo, and have that sq root sign displayed. Not that either; rather

Re: openal-soft

2010-02-10 Thread b. f.
I did as UPDATING says and everything were look okay but when I update (big update) the system mplayer complain that cannot install openALL because openal-soft is installed. I went bacjk to the openALL and it is okay but my question is it is possible to build mplayer with openal support and

Re: custom kernel

2010-02-14 Thread b. f.
Derek Funk wrote: On 2/13/2010 5:31 AM, Erik Norgaard wrote: On 13/02/10 04:08, Derek Funk wrote: I am trying to find how to install a custom kernel at installation. I have found an option in sysinstall to select a kernel. How do I add my own to the options so I can select it? I think the

Re: shell script to cap first letter?

2010-03-21 Thread b. f.
i'm wondering if there is a script that i could run my plaintext files thru that would capitalize thef first letter of each sentence [[ assuming the character wasn't already a cap!]] more and more, in recent years, i have posted questions or written things that have been sloppily or casually

Re: Is CTM still being offered for updating FreeBSD?

2011-02-25 Thread b. f.
So I have a few questions: 1) Is it still being offered and supported as a method of updating FreeBSD systems? As of today, yes -- I have recent deltas in my mailbox. But you could easily check by subscribing, and looking at: http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CTM where the deltas are still

Re: GNU make doesn't understand .for? suffix rules obsolete?

2011-03-02 Thread b. f.
In particular I was surprised to find out that GNU make considers suffix rules obsolete: http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Suffix-Rules.html#Suffix-Rules I didn't think the suffix rules are obsolete in BSD make, are they? No (Although maybe some people will argue that BSD

Re: SIL Fonts

2011-03-03 Thread b. f.
I was unable to find a port with Charis or Doulos typefaces. Perhaps someone can tell me that these typefaces are part of some meta-port. Which? Hmm. I don't see any port with them, either, although bundling of them is permitted, under certain circumstances, and I didn't look into the innards

Re: SIL Fonts

2011-03-03 Thread b. f.
On 3/3/11, Jason C. Wells j...@speakeasy.net wrote: On 03/03/11 05:01, b. f. wrote: I don't _need_ ports but I do like to use them because they include management tools. thanks for the response. Right, then, I will add some ports. b. ___ freebsd

Re: Kernel compiling problems

2011-03-03 Thread b. f.
Heya! Anybody know what's wrong with this? ## make buildworld buildkernel KERNCONF=NINJA ... /usr/src/sys/kern/sysv_msg.c:163: error: invalid application of 'sizeof' to incomplete type 'struct freebsd7_msgctl_args This error message is suggestive. ;) options COMPAT_FREEBSD4 options

Re: optical driver with ahci bios mode but ata(4) driver

2011-03-05 Thread b. f.
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 8:31 PM, David Demelier demelier.david at gmail.com wrote: Hello, My bios can be set to use IDE emulation or ahci mode, I prefere the ahci mode because it's a bit faster. It's probably stupid to stay with ata(4) driver with the ahci mode, isn't it? But with ahci(4)

Re: python27 update

2011-03-05 Thread b. f.
... I tried to update python26 to python27. I did as I red in /usr/ports/UPDATING: portmaster -o lang/python27 lang/python26 and than cd /usr/ports/lang/python make upgrade-site-packages -DUSE_PORTMASTER and after one day and a half of pressing yes for deleting old files I got: Has it

Re: python27 update

2011-03-06 Thread b. f.
I am using portmaster all the time more or less without problems. I like to switch to portupgrade but I don't know if is good to mix them. I think I will wait to FreeBSD 9 and than install evrything from scratch. You would have encountered the problem that you mentioned regardless of whether you

Re: python27 update-py-psyco

2011-03-07 Thread b. f.
On 3/7/11, ajtiM lum...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday March 6 2011 12:01:47 b. f. wrote: Thank you. I am reading /usr/ports/UPDATING special like now but there are problems. And I have a problem again with /usr/ports/devel/py-psyco I get: c/mergepoints.c:242: error 'JUMP_IF_FALSE' undeclared

Re: Coldfusion, Postgres and Java under FreeBSD

2011-03-07 Thread b. f.
... I'm running Java on FreeBSD right now, but I must say I'd probably stick to Linux nowadays if I had any say, at least until there comes a day when I'll be able to pkg_add -r openjdk7. ... Why not now? (Or anytime this past year or more?):

Re: python27 update-py-psyco

2011-03-08 Thread b. f.
On 3/8/11, ajtiM lum...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday March 7 2011 08:37:46 b. f. wrote: On 3/7/11, ajtiM lum...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday March 6 2011 12:01:47 b. f. wrote: Thank you. I am reading /usr/ports/UPDATING special like now but there are problems. And I have a problem again

Re: DTrace in RELEASE?

2011-03-15 Thread b. f.
Does anyone know if it's likely DTrace will ever make it into the generic RELEASEs? Maybe, at least in part. One of the developers has asked that the hooks needed for dtrace be included by default in upcoming releases: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arch/2011-March/011157.html b.

Re: Booting from firmware RAID

2011-03-16 Thread b. f.
This is probably more PC-specific than freebsd-specific question. I have intel firmware raid. OS needs drivers to work with it. FreeBSD sees it as ar0, so it has drivers. But I want my OS to be installed on this drive and boot from it. It is not good idea, but I really want to do it:) Is it

Re: Port dependencies

2011-04-02 Thread b. f.
Chris Telting wrote: See above. What I want to see is minimal installs with all features being usable once you install the optional components. And run time detection for programs shouldn't be all that difficult or computation intensive. The program would just consult pkg_info or another

Re: Piping find into tar...

2011-05-04 Thread b. f.
I've been playing with the find command lately. Is there a way I can pipe the putput list of files from find, into the tar command to create an archive which contains the files which find lists? I tried the following, but it didn't work (obviously). find -E . '.*\.txt$' -print | tar -cjf

Re: Piping find into tar...

2011-05-04 Thread b. f.
On 5/4/11, Chris Rees utis...@gmail.com wrote: On 4 May 2011 08:44, b. f. bf1...@googlemail.com wrote: I've been playing with the find command lately. Is there a way I can pipe the putput list of files from find, into the tar command to create an archive which contains the files which find

Re: Piping find into tar...

2011-05-04 Thread b. f.
On 5/4/11, Modulok modu...@gmail.com wrote: As for pax, I thought tar could create pax archives too, via the --format pax option? Yes, although I haven't tested it thoroughly. pax(1) should also be able to create a number of different archive formats via the -x flag. I prefer tar(1)

Re: Piping find into tar...

2011-05-04 Thread b. f.
Dne 4.5.2011 11:42, Modulok napsal(a): By the way, in reference to the commands above the -j option is for bzip2, so the extension should be .tbz o_O Thanks everyone! I went with the following, because it works regardless of space characters in filenames. (Thanks for the correction on

Re: Comparing two lists [SOLVED (at least it looks like that)]

2011-05-06 Thread b. f.
2011-05-07 02:09, Rolf Nielsen skrev: Hello all, I have two text files, quite extensive ones. They have some lines in common and some lines are unique to one of the files. The lines that do exist in both files are not necessarily in the same location. Now I need to compare the files

Re: UDF and DVD's

2011-05-19 Thread b. f.
grarpamp wrote: ... I'm guessing the current state within FreeBSD means that I can neither read, nor create, or write, readable (compatible) images at this, or any given, UDF level? ... Is this a blocker for FreeBSD? For me, at least, minimally, that seems to be the case... as I now have

Re: I486_CPU or I586_CPU in kernel config

2011-05-31 Thread b. f.
Warren Block wrote: On Mon, 30 May 2011, Adam Vande More wrote: Perhaps this is the one you meant? http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2009-January/190568.html That's the one! Thanks! Actually the two threads touch on the same subject, and it seems removal of those

Re: What is xz ?

2011-07-02 Thread b. f.
From owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org Sat Jul 2 06:45:00 2011 Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2011 13:43:55 +0200 From: Polytropon freebsd at edvax.de To: Chris Whitehouse cwhiteh at onetel.com Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org Subject: Re: What is xz ? On Sat, 02 Jul 2011 12:26:14

Re: What is xz ?

2011-07-02 Thread b. f.
On 7/2/11, Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com wrote: b. f. writes: It is part of '7.2-RELEASE', Dunno about 7.1 Hmm. Are you sure? If this is true, the archivers/xz port needs to be patched to IGNORE those branches of 7 that have xz. Is that necessarily true

Re: Portupgrade Package Question

2011-07-09 Thread b. f.
Thomas D. Dean wrote: ... For the most recent try, I have ... # OS_PATCHLEVEL:-p8 # OS_PLATFORM:i386 amd64 # OS_PKGBRANCH: 7-current 6.1-release OS_RELEASE=8-STABLE OS_BRANCH=STABLE OS_PKGBRANCH=8-stable The comments above were not

Re: Portupgrade Package Question

2011-07-09 Thread b. f.
On 7/9/11, Thomas D. Dean tomd...@speakeasy.org wrote: On Sat, 2011-07-09 at 19:54 -0400, b. f. wrote: occasionally trip over problems that will require intervention. (Note that in the section of the csup file that you reproduced in an earlier message, 'release-cvs' should be 'release=cvs

Re: Portupgrade Package Question

2011-07-09 Thread b. f.
On 7/10/11, b. f. bf1...@googlemail.com wrote: On 7/9/11, Thomas D. Dean tomd...@speakeasy.org wrote: On Sat, 2011-07-09 at 19:54 -0400, b. f. wrote: You could cheat, and neither upgrade your base system nor make the changes I mentioned in my last message, but instead fool portupgrade

Re: options used to compile packages

2011-07-16 Thread b. f.
I want to compile packages from the ports collections with exactly the same options that have been used to compile the official packages from the official freebsd package collection. Is the var/db/ports directory used to compile the official freebsd package collection available somewhere ? If

Re: gcc 4.4.7

2011-07-16 Thread b. f.
I decided to switch from portmaster to portupgrade and pkddb -F show many stale dependencies on gcc-4.4.5.20110503 (lang/gcc44). Do I need to put new dependencies to gcc-4.5.4.20110630 or something else, please? For portmaster I put IGNOREMI+ line and it works but I don't know how to do

Re: options used to compile packages

2011-07-16 Thread b. f.
well I don't actually now which package it was, but I compiled gdm (so it should be one of it's dependencies). A compilation resulted in a non working gdm (something with pam support not found on execution). Upon installing gdm and is dependencies from packages, everything worked correctly.

Re: options used to compile packages

2011-07-17 Thread b. f.
On 7/17/11, David Arendt ad...@prnet.org wrote: When I did the test, I used FreeBSD 8.2 amd64 using the ports collection delivered with this distribution. I see. Since that time, there have been very few changes to the version of the base system used to build the packages for 8, but more to

Re: Using csup and -i switch

2011-07-19 Thread b. f.
Hello, I updated all my ports recently but I have submitted a PR for audio/musicpd for a simple patch. I would like to update only my audio/musicpd on all my machines so I tried the following: markand at Groseille ~ $ sudo csup -i audio/musicpd /etc/ports-supfile Connected to 193.51.24.2

Re: pkg_delete yields 'no such package'

2011-07-24 Thread b. f.
Matthew Seaman wrote: On 24/07/2011 08:48, Toan H. Le wrote: Either I use 'pkg_delete xorg-docs' or 'pkg_delete xorg-docs-1.4.1', pkg_delete yields the error of 'no such package'. Checking via 'pkg_info' and 'pkg_version' confirms the packages xorg-docs-1.4.1 installed. I think I did not

Re: how do i find a file in all directories 7 to 9 days old?

2011-07-28 Thread b. f.
how can i use find or whatever to find a file, say 6 levels deep that is = 9 days old? i'm looking fo something i had to jt down [[ASCII]]. can't remembr te file name, nor when i was when i had the idea flash into my mind Try something like: find / -type f -mtime -10d -mindepth 5

Re: how do i find a file in all directories 7 to 9 days old?

2011-07-28 Thread b. f.
On 7/28/11, b. f. bf1...@googlemail.com wrote: how can i use find or whatever to find a file, say 6 levels deep that is = 9 days old? i'm looking fo something i had to jt down [[ASCII]]. can't remembr te file name, nor when i was when i had the idea flash into my mind Try

Re: High interrupt rate

2011-08-07 Thread b. f.
I know 75% idle is not bad but this machine, when not under load on a saturday night like today, used to be at around 98% idle 99% of the time. Now its is at 72% idle 99.9% of the time. It has been like this all day. The only things with a high interrupt rate are cpu0: timer

Re: High interrupt rate

2011-08-08 Thread b. f.
On 8/7/11, Mario Lobo l...@bsd.com.br wrote: On Sunday 07 August 2011 18:34:27 b. f. wrote: I know 75% idle is not bad but this machine, when not under load on a saturday night like today, used to be at around 98% idle 99% of the time. Now its is at 72% idle 99.9% of the time. It has been

Re: port build breaks at xmlto

2011-08-12 Thread b. f.
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 01:18:07PM +1000, Daryl Sayers wrote: FreeBSD 7.4 I am having trouble building the xmlto port on FreeBSD 7.4. I am getting an error: === Building for xmlto-0.0.24 make all-am for xml in xmlif.xml xmlto.xml; do FORMAT_DIR=./format /usr/local/bin/bash ./xmlto

Re: PDF inventory software

2009-06-10 Thread b. f.
Hmm.. The command find *.pdf -exec pdftotext {} \; works in directories in which no PDF file returns the Document has not the mandatory ending %EOF error. When a directory contains one of these files, none of the files get converted. Is there some way to ignore or skip over this %EOF problem

Re: OpenSSL Base vs. OpenSSL Port?

2009-06-17 Thread b. f.
I had been running 6.2 with openssl base for quite a while. Then I attempted to implement the dkim-filter port which required using openssl to generate keys. That's when I noticed that openssl is broken on my machine. See this example: # openssl genrsa -out rsa.private 1024 Error configuring

Re: OpenSSL Base vs. OpenSSL Port?

2009-06-17 Thread b. f.
On 6/17/09, b. f. bf1...@googlemail.com wrote: Put WITH_OPENSSL_PORT=yes in your build environment -- /etc/make.conf is a good way -- and then rebuild all ports that depend on openssl. There are many different ways to do this -- you could use: pkgdb -L portupgrade -fur openssl

Re: OpenSSL Base vs. OpenSSL Port?

2009-06-17 Thread b. f.
On 6/17/09, b. f. bf1...@googlemail.com wrote: On 6/17/09, b. f. bf1...@googlemail.com wrote: Put WITH_OPENSSL_PORT=yes in your build environment -- /etc/make.conf is a good way -- and then rebuild all ports that depend on openssl. There are many different ways to do this -- you could use

Re: OpenSSL Base vs. OpenSSL Port?

2009-06-17 Thread b. f.
On 6/17/09, b. f. bf1...@googlemail.com wrote: On 6/17/09, b. f. bf1...@googlemail.com wrote: Put WITH_OPENSSL_PORT=yes in your build environment -- /etc/make.conf is a good way -- and then rebuild all ports that depend on openssl. There are many different ways to do this -- you could use

Re: right CPUTYPE

2009-06-18 Thread b. f.
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 8:08 PM, Aryeh Friedmanaryeh.friedman at gmail.com wrote: What CPUTYPE should I put in /etc/make.conf for: CPU: AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 955 Processor (3210.85-MHz 686-class CPU) OP is referring to CPUTYPE ( see make.conf(5) ) , not the cpu string in the kernel

Re: The question of moving vi to /bin

2009-06-24 Thread b. f.
On Tuesday 23 June 2009 15:41:48 Manish Jain wrote: ... About ed first. I might annoy a few people (which would gladden me in this particular case), but ed was just one of Ken Thompson's nightmares which he managed to reproduce in Unix with great precision. By no stretch of imagination would it

Re: Questions on portmaster

2009-07-01 Thread b. f.
Manish Jain wrote: ...Does each child start 'make fetch' in the background ? make checksum, yes. Further, how can portmaster be tuned to automatically ignore ports which are actually marked as IGNORE in the port directory ? This is not covered in the manpage. It respects IGNORE (it checks for

Re: Questions on portmaster

2009-07-02 Thread b. f.
On 7/2/09, Manish Jain invalid.poin...@gmail.com wrote: b. f. wrote: Manish Jain wrote: Regarding the download speeds I was getting with portmaster fetches (0.7 kBps to 4.0 kBps), I immediately booted into Windows/Cygwin and did a wget from the same site portmaster was using. The speed I got

Re: Urgent help needed : portmaster dies on py-cairo

2009-07-05 Thread b. f.
Manish Jain wrote: After 3-4 hours, portsnap died on graphics/py-cairo saying : cannot find python headers I'm guessing you meant portmaster died here ... /usr/ports/graphics/py-cairo/work/pycairo-1.8.4/config.log says : configure:4734: cc -E -I/usr/local/include conftest.c conftest.c:10:28:

Re: Urgent help needed : portmaster dies on py-cairo

2009-07-06 Thread b. f.
On 7/6/09, manish jain invalid.poin...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/7/6 b. f. bf1...@googlemail.com After running pkgdb -F, I find that there hundreds of ports depending on python2.5. Most of these are probably indirectly dependent, and may not be seriously affected. Many, for example, may have

Re: Portupgrade not handling dependencies

2009-07-07 Thread b. f.
For the past 2 weeks though I have to run portupgrade 2-3 times every time I have more than one update because at least 1 port fails due to a dependency(which is seemingly upgraded after it tries to upgrade the other port). What the heck is going on and how do I fix it? We obviously can't help

Re: Portupgrade not handling dependencies

2009-07-07 Thread b. f.
On 7/8/09, Eric Sheesley eshee...@shadowlair.com wrote: Well, it has been happening with just about every port(no specific ones) that have a dependency which is also being built. An example from today: === Registering installation for libtheora-1.0_1 === Cleaning for libtheora-1.0_1 ---

Re: Portupgrade not handling dependencies

2009-07-07 Thread b. f.
On 7/8/09, Eric Sheesley eshee...@shadowlair.com wrote: Actually, the bsdpan package is not the issue here. I was aware it wouldn't update that(no port for this perl module yet anyway). If you notice, it doesn't proceed to install ffmpeg, i force it to(highlighted by ): Yes, I

Re: Portupgrade not handling dependencies

2009-07-07 Thread b. f.
But I have seen portupgrade something and then a subsequent run shows this port as being 'newer' than the version it's supposed to be. I've portsdb -Fu runs `make fetchindex`, grabbing the INDEX* file from whatever server you've told it to go to, and then rebuilds/updates the portsdb from that.

Re: Support of UDF ISO-13346 on 7.1-RELEASE-p2

2009-07-19 Thread b. f.
#How can I mount this disc ? Does udf.ko support this format ? I don't often use memory disks, so I'm not quite sure what is going wrong here. You could try configuring it and mounting it as read-only, to see if that helps. But you should be aware that FreeBSD does not support _all_ UDF

Re: libjpeg.so.9

2009-07-19 Thread b. f.
Hi, after upgrading wine to 1.1.26 from ports, the library libjpeg.so.9 no longer exists, it was replaced by libjpeg.so.10. The first problem I found was that icewm didn't loads, then I created a soft link to libjpeg.so. With this change, icewm loads, but icewmbg can't load because it needs

Re: custom amd64 kernel

2009-07-21 Thread b. f.
Frankly, I have no idea how to configure the kernel from GENERIC... I have installed, in the past and recently, Intel i386 kernels without problem but this amd64 thingy is incomprehensible for me... the default GENERIC example holds HAMMER as the cpu; mine is Turion with some other name for the

Re: Support of UDF ISO-13346 on 7.1-RELEASE-p2 [SOLVED]

2009-07-21 Thread b. f.
On 7/22/09, Bryant Eadon bryant.ea...@gmail.com wrote: ... I'm disappointed that FreeBSD mount_udf doesn't support this disc. Disappointed enough to port the latest NetBSD UDF improvements to FreeBSD? Or to analyze the udfclient sources and make some improvements to the kernel module? ;)

Re: Ports and package creation Automation

2009-07-23 Thread b. f.
I know that pkg_create command will create packages for the other 3 boxes. if I am going to rebuild all of my ports from scratch, can I somehow tell FreeBSD to create a package all the time and store it in a directory? In addition to what the others have mentioned, you can also use portmaster

Re: Ports and package creation Automation

2009-07-23 Thread b. f.
On 7/23/09, b. f. bf1...@googlemail.com wrote: ... where PKG_FETCH is an sftp-aware client like curll(1) from ftp/curl, with the appropriate flags ... or, as you said, sftp(1) in the base. entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem. b

Re: UFS2 tuning for heterogeneous 4TB file system

2009-07-26 Thread b. f.
The file system in question will not have a common file size (which is what, as I understand, bytes per inode should be tuned for). There will be many small files ( 10 KB) and many large ones ( 500 MB). A similar, in terms of content, 2TB ntfs file system on another server has an average file size

Re: UFS2 tuning for heterogeneous 4TB file system

2009-07-31 Thread b. f.
On 7/26/09, Maxim Khitrov mkhit...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 3:56 AM, b. f.bf1...@googlemail.com wrote: The file system in question will not have a common file size (which is what, as I understand, bytes per inode should be tuned for). There will be many small files ( 10 KB) and

Re: cvs tag usage

2009-08-04 Thread b. f.
Glen Barber glen.j.barber at gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 1:43 PM, David Southwelldavid at vizion2000.net wrote: I am confused about the usage of the tag for src. I took a look at the web pages and found the following choices: _7_BP _7_2_BP BP ? It is the branchpoint tag, made

Re: cvs tag usage

2009-08-04 Thread b. f.
On 8/4/09, Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com wrote: _7_2_0_RELEASE Should be RELENG. Don't blindly follow how-tos. RELENG_7_2_0_RELEASE is a valid tag. Don't make pronouncements if you haven't verified them. He has _7_2_0_RELEASE, not RELENG_7_0_2_RELEASE. Well, neither actually.

Re: not dead [yet].

2009-08-04 Thread b. f.
Roland Smith rsmith at xs4all.nl wrote: What you can do is make a list of all installed ports with ports-mgmt/portmaster: portmaster -L ports.list Looking through this list, you'll see four categories; - Root ports (No dependencies, not depended on) - Trunk ports (No dependencies, are depended

Re: Negative ping times with FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE on older Celeron system

2011-09-12 Thread b. f.
I just put FreeBSD 8.1 up on an old (but good) 500 MHz Celeron with half a gig of RAM. Interfaces are classic xl (3Com) and dc (DEC tulip). Works quite nicely except for one quirk: ping times that ought to be positive (no more than 200 ms worst case) are coming out negative! Can't figure out

Re: How can I disable hyperthreads, but NOT smp ?

2011-09-20 Thread b. f.
On 20/09/2011 21:34, Jason Usher wrote: FreeBSD 6.4-RELEASE system with two physical CPUs, each of which are HT capable. From dmesg: cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID: 0 cpu1 (AP): APIC ID: 1 cpu2 (AP): APIC ID: 6 cpu3 (AP): APIC ID: 7 I also see this: machdep.hyperthreading_allowed: 0

Re: Download manpages

2011-09-20 Thread b. f.
Hello Matthew, I'm trying to download section 2 and section 1 for freebsd commands and system calls ? Is there a specific manpage that you are missing? A cursory glance shows that these sections are populated: sh -c 'cd /tmp ; for i in a b c d e f g ; do fetch -ampv

Re: pkg_version: corrupted record (pkgdep line without argument), ignoring

2011-10-22 Thread b. f.
On 10/22/11, b. f. bf1...@googlemail.com wrote: Jerry wrote: After attempting unsuccessfully to update KDE4 via portmaster, I found a number of errors printed out when using pkg_version-vIL=. I eventually used portmanager to update the KDE4 port successfully; however, I am still receiving

Re: (8.2) share lib and ldconfig problem.

2011-10-28 Thread b. f.
Hello, 8.2 STABLE/i386 I'm hit by something strange. Basically ldconfig does not take care of some libs in /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg By sample I've updated icu (via portupgrade) and libreoffice does not start anymore. $ libreoffice /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libicuuc.so.46

Re: Quick build of stripped-down kernel

2011-11-24 Thread b. f.
Happy Thanksgiving! This week, I've been building FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 And to you, too. kernels for various machines, and on some of the older and slower ones it's been taking quite a long time. One of the reasons for this is that even if you strip 98% of the drivers out of the kernel, they are

Re: Quick build of stripped-down kernel

2011-11-25 Thread b. f.
On 11/25/11, Thomas Mueller mueller6...@bellsouth.net wrote: from b. f. bf1...@googlemail.com: If you are going to build most of the modules, but only want to exclude a few, then add the directories of the modules to be excluded (relative to /usr/src/sys/modules) to WITHOUT_MODULES

Re: options atapicam and/or device ATA_CAM in kernel config?

2011-11-27 Thread b. f.
What is the role of options atapicam and device ATA_CAM in kernel config file? Are they redundant? Kernel will build with both these options, but will it make things go awry? Is ATA_CAM deprecated? They are redundant and incompatible. atapicam is deprecated, and ATA_CAM is the

Re: options atapicam and/or device ATA_CAM in kernel config?

2011-11-27 Thread b. f.
On 11/27/11, Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org wrote: b. f. bf1...@googlemail.com writes: What is the role of options atapicam and device ATA_CAM in kernel config file? Are they redundant? Kernel will build with both these options, but will it make things go

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