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
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Switch--Cable
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
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
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
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
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
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
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 11:57:35PM -0500, Greg Larkin typed:
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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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
...
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
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
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
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
...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
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.
___
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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)
...
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
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
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
...
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?):
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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)
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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:
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
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
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
---
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
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.
#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
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
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
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? ;)
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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