Re: Question About Ports Update Cycle

2008-04-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
Tim Daneliuk wrote: Is there some regular interval at which new ports are processed by the FreeBSD team? I submitted a port (for a very minor utility) 3/20/2008 but it is still not in the tree. I'm not complaining in the slightest - the folks who do this work are volunteering their time, and I

Re: Question about ports builds

2006-07-06 Thread Chuck Swiger
Charlie Sorsby wrote: Charlie Sorsby wrote: [ ... ] PS It would be really helpful if each port/package at freebsd.org had an indication whether it requires the latest and greatest version of freeBSD. Put another way, it would be nice to know the oldest version of freeBSD it will work with.

Re: Question about Ports and Packages

2005-04-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Tom Moyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm using FreeBSD 5-STABLE installed from 5.4-RC1 and then cvsup'd to 5-STABLE on Friday. Maybe I'm just doing something wrong, but I noticed that when I did pkgdb -F or portsdb -Uu, it seemed to complain about build dependancies missing for packages

Re: Question about ports

2004-10-07 Thread whitevamp
- From: Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Pierre LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 5:16 PM Subject: Re: Question about ports Pierre LeBlanc wrote: Hello, I'm new to the port collection and updating ports with CVSup

Re: Question about ports

2004-10-06 Thread Nikolas Britton
Pierre LeBlanc wrote: Hello, I'm new to the port collection and updating ports with CVSup but I managed to update the ports of my FreeBSD 4.10 system using CVSup. Now, I want to upgrade Perl to version 5.6 and I notice there is a perl5 port in the list I`ve seen on:

Re: Question about ports...

2003-12-11 Thread C. Ulrich
On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 12:04, Payne wrote: Hi, I am want to install postnuke but when-ever I go to do make under /usr/port/www/postnuke, it wants to install mod_php4 again, I don't want to have to reinstall ports everytime I add something new. Thanks, Payne Does postnuke require a

Re: Question about ports... [postnuke]

2003-12-11 Thread Matt Staroscik
I am want to install postnuke but when-ever I go to do make under /usr/port/www/postnuke, it wants to install mod_php4 again, I don't want to have to reinstall ports everytime I add something new. I recently installed PHPNuke and have some observations that might be relevant to your situation.

Re: Question about ports... [postnuke]

2003-12-11 Thread HOLLOW, CHRISTOPHER
Given PHPNuke's security track record, I would say that this is sound advice. I would suggest going from the latest source as well. Chris Matt Staroscik wrote: I am want to install postnuke but when-ever I go to do make under /usr/port/www/postnuke, it wants to install mod_php4 again, I don't

Re: Question about ports... [postnuke]

2003-12-11 Thread Pete Renshaw
Did you try make install FORCE_PKG_REGISTER=yes clean See http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=portsapropos=0sektion=0manpath=FreeBSD+5.1-RELEASE+and+Portsformat=html Many people don't know to use the =yes for FORCE_PKG_REGISTER. After you get Postnuke installed you may have to make these

Re: question about ports

2003-07-15 Thread Jens Rehsack
Antoine Jacoutot wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello :) I have 2 questions concerning the ports. 1. I need to apply a patch to a port so my modem could work with mgetty+sendfax; how do I do that ? Do I have to edit the Makefile or pass options to the make command ?

Re: question about ports

2003-07-15 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 15 July 2003 12:25, you wrote: Just to give you an example. a) If I want to have the FreeBSD php4-port is able to work with thttpd, I have to update the lang/php4/Makefile and lang/php4/bsd.php.mk to recognize a new flag for the port

Re: question about ports

2003-07-15 Thread Jens Rehsack
Antoine Jacoutot wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 15 July 2003 12:25, you wrote: [...] In fact I wanted to try adding an option in mgetty, like: if WITH_USR=yes, then patch the mgetty source This usually went this way, even if I don't want to prevent you from

Re: question about ports

2003-07-15 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 15 July 2003 12:51, Jens Rehsack wrote: This usually went this way, even if I don't want to prevent you from asking the ports maintainer to accept/commit your patch. Usually you create the patch against mgetty, send this patch to the

Re: question about ports

2003-07-15 Thread Jens Rehsack
Antoine Jacoutot wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 15 July 2003 12:51, Jens Rehsack wrote: This usually went this way, even if I don't want to prevent you from asking the ports maintainer to accept/commit your patch. Usually you create the patch against mgetty, send