Re: Do I really have to install 80 packages?

2013-10-14 Thread Da Rock
On 10/13/13 17:38, Thomas Mueller wrote: On the question of playing Adobe Flash in FreeBSD, could one use the MS-Windows 32-bit version with (i386-)Wine? I plan to try that. Apparently that won't solve much. The primary issue now with watching flash movies is the drm - on linux it somehow

Re: Do I really have to install 80 packages?

2013-10-13 Thread Thomas Mueller
On the question of playing Adobe Flash in FreeBSD, could one use the MS-Windows 32-bit version with (i386-)Wine? I plan to try that. Tom ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: Do I really have to install 80 packages?

2013-10-12 Thread Walter Hurry
warning lights up: lots of dependencies ahead! When you try to install a simple desktop environment, you'll be confronted with hundreds of packages to be installed, some of them you've probably never had thought of in regards of what you need to install a desktop, such as two or more different

Re: Do I really have to install 80 packages?

2013-10-12 Thread gct7photography
I don't know what others think, but what *I* really want is that the free software versions of Flash (gnash and klash, etc) work at least as well as versions of Adobe Flash do, or if versions of Adobe Flash are to be used, that it will be free and covered by the GPL. Its unlikely to happen unless

Re: Do I really have to install 80 packages?

2013-10-12 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 12 Oct 2013 23:28:40 +0100, gct7photogra...@gmail.com wrote: I don't know what others think, but what *I* really want is that the free software versions of Flash (gnash and klash, etc) work at least as well as versions of Adobe Flash do, or if versions of Adobe Flash are to be used,

Re: Do I really have to install 80 packages?

2013-10-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2013-10-13 at 04:48 +0200, Polytropon wrote: Let's hope people are going to get smarter than I assume. :-) It's new, not even 100 years old. Within our lifetimes people likely become more stupid, but yes, it will take some generations and people will get smarter.

Do I really have to install 80 packages?

2013-10-11 Thread Walter Hurry
FreeBSD 9.1 I want ONE shared lib; i.e. rsvg.so, which is provided by x11-toolkits/py-gnome-desktop. Unfortunately, it seems that going the normal route I shall have to install 80! ports to get it. Is there an easier way? ___

Re: Do I really have to install 80 packages?

2013-10-11 Thread Glenn Sieb
On 10/11/13 5:38 PM, Walter Hurry wrote: FreeBSD 9.1 I want ONE shared lib; i.e. rsvg.so, which is provided by x11-toolkits/py-gnome-desktop. Unfortunately, it seems that going the normal route I shall have to install 80! ports to get it. Is there an easier way? Actually I think you

Re: Do I really have to install 80 packages?

2013-10-11 Thread Polytropon
a simple desktop environment, you'll be confronted with hundreds of packages to be installed, some of them you've probably never had thought of in regards of what you need to install a desktop, such as two or more different databases, LaTeX, translators, and other surprising stuff

Re: install packages with pkg_add(1) into another file system

2013-10-09 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Tuesday, October 08, 2013 a las 03:31:16PM +0200, Matthias Apitz escribió: Meanwhile I did: # cp -Rp ~guru/PKGDIR/mnt # PKG_PATH=/PKGDIR # export PKG_PATH # chroot /mnt pkg_add xorg-7.7 # chroot /mnt pkg_add kde-4.10.5 # chroot /mnt pkg_add vim-7.3.1314 ... # chroot

install packages with pkg_add(1) into another file system

2013-10-08 Thread Matthias Apitz
DESTDIR=/mnt ... I have compiled ~800 ports (Xorg and KDE4) and after this I've created packages of all the installed ports with pkg_create(1); the resulting .tgz files are all as well copied to the image into /mnt/PKGDIR. So far so good. Now I want install the packages as well into the image

Re: install packages with pkg_add(1) into another file system

2013-10-08 Thread Mark Felder
On Tue, Oct 8, 2013, at 6:16, Matthias Apitz wrote: So far so good. Now I want install the packages as well into the image in /mnt. What would be the best method for this? Run pkg_add with the flag --chroot chrootdir, or use chroot(8) directly? Or any other idea? Thanks in advance All

Re: install packages with pkg_add(1) into another file system

2013-10-08 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Tuesday, October 08, 2013 a las 07:58:06AM -0500, Mark Felder escribió: On Tue, Oct 8, 2013, at 6:16, Matthias Apitz wrote: So far so good. Now I want install the packages as well into the image in /mnt. What would be the best method for this? Run pkg_add with the flag --chroot

Re: install packages with pkg_add(1) into another file system

2013-10-08 Thread Mark Felder
On Tue, Oct 8, 2013, at 8:07, Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Tuesday, October 08, 2013 a las 07:58:06AM -0500, Mark Felder escribió: On Tue, Oct 8, 2013, at 6:16, Matthias Apitz wrote: So far so good. Now I want install the packages as well into the image in /mnt. What would

Re: install packages with pkg_add(1) into another file system

2013-10-08 Thread Matthias Apitz
you use pkg_* or pkg with their built-in chroot options it seems that it executes those tools within those chroots instead of setting the chroot as a destination for the installation. So if you wanted to use --chroot I think you have to make sure the packages are available inside the chroot

Perl packages fails to build

2013-10-03 Thread C. L. Martinez
Hi all, Using freebsd 9.2 amd64 and poudriere, perl fails to build: /bin/mkdir -p /wrkdirs/usr/ports/lang/perl5.14/work/stage/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.14/BSDPAN/. install -o root -g wheel -m 444 /wrkdirs/usr/ports/lang/perl5.14/work/BSDPAN-2007/BSDPAN.pm

pkg install on freshly installed 9.1 doesn't find any packages

2013-08-16 Thread Yuri
I installed 9.1 from iso image. Then 'pkg' command brought pkg-1.0.11 package. Now commands like 'pkg install gnome2' always say: pkg: Package 'gnome2' was not found in the repositories. Am I missing something? This is vanilla 9.1 from DVD image. Nothing else. Yuri

Re: pkg install on freshly installed 9.1 doesn't find any packages

2013-08-16 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 17/08/2013 05:41, Yuri wrote: I installed 9.1 from iso image. Then 'pkg' command brought pkg-1.0.11 package. Now commands like 'pkg install gnome2' always say: pkg: Package 'gnome2' was not found in the repositories. Am I missing something? This is vanilla 9.1 from DVD image. Nothing

Re: HOWTO monitor changes in installed packages within jails?

2013-07-23 Thread Michael Grimm
in installed packages within jails. I am looking for a functionality/port that works like 490.status- pkg-changes for my host. Question: is there any functionality within the periodic system or a port that I might have missed to find? You can't just run 490.status-pkg-changes directly in your

HOWTO monitor changes in installed packages within jails?

2013-07-20 Thread Michael Grimm
Hi -- I did migrate to pkgng some month ago, and ever since I am curious how to monitor changes in installed packages within jails. I am looking for a functionality/port that works like 490.status-pkg-changes for my host. Question: is there any functionality within the periodic system

Re: HOWTO monitor changes in installed packages within jails?

2013-07-20 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 20/07/2013 12:09, Michael Grimm wrote: I did migrate to pkgng some month ago, and ever since I am curious how to monitor changes in installed packages within jails. I am looking for a functionality/port that works like 490.status- pkg-changes for my host. Question: is there any

Re: HOWTO monitor changes in installed packages within jails?

2013-07-20 Thread Michael Grimm
On 20.07.2013, at 14:53, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: On 20/07/2013 12:09, Michael Grimm wrote: I did migrate to pkgng some month ago, and ever since I am curious how to monitor changes in installed packages within jails. I am looking for a functionality/port

Mirroring Binary Packages

2013-07-01 Thread Rick Miller
Hi all, I want to mirror binary packages for 8.x amd64 internally on an isolated network. It appears the appropriate source would be on an official mirror at pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-8-stable/ for the most recent updates. However, it does not appear to have been updated since October

upgrade packages

2013-04-25 Thread Pol Hallen
Hi all! I come from linux os and I read a lot documentations about freebsd. I've a doubt: when I've some packages installed and I need upgrade it, I need to recompile those packages or there's another (fast) way to do this? thanks! Pol ___ freebsd

Re: upgrade packages

2013-04-25 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 25 Apr 2013 15:05:25 +0200, Pol Hallen wrote: Hi all! I come from linux os and I read a lot documentations about freebsd. I've a doubt: when I've some packages installed and I need upgrade it, I need to recompile those packages or there's another (fast) way to do

When will binary packages be back?

2013-04-10 Thread Brett Glass
For many years, I've used FreeBSD binary packages to avoid long waits and/or having to set up a special build machine when creating small systems. But even though the development server security breach is now long past, there are no published binary packages for FreeBSD 9.1. When

Re: When will binary packages be back?

2013-04-10 Thread pete wright
On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Brett Glass br...@lariat.net wrote: For many years, I've used FreeBSD binary packages to avoid long waits and/or having to set up a special build machine when creating small systems. But even though the development server security breach is now long past

Re: When will binary packages be back?

2013-04-10 Thread Jeff Tipton
On 04/10/2013 20:39, Brett Glass wrote: For many years, I've used FreeBSD binary packages to avoid long waits and/or having to set up a special build machine when creating small systems. But even though the development server security breach is now long past, there are no published binary

Re: When will binary packages be back?

2013-04-10 Thread Brett Glass
Unfortunately, I've never experimented with pkgng, so will have to come up to speed on this. Might be a temporary workaround. In the meantime, I'm trying to install Apache 2.2 on a small server. So far, just to build the port, the machine has built Perl, Python, m4, Berkeley DB, and an

Re: When will binary packages be back?

2013-04-10 Thread pete wright
On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 11:19 AM, Brett Glass br...@lariat.net wrote: Unfortunately, I've never experimented with pkgng, so will have to come up to speed on this. Might be a temporary workaround. it is def. where the project is moving towards for binary pkg distribution, so it won't be a

Re: When will binary packages be back?

2013-04-10 Thread Greg Larkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 4/10/13 2:19 PM, Brett Glass wrote: Unfortunately, I've never experimented with pkgng, so will have to come up to speed on this. Might be a temporary workaround. In the meantime, I'm trying to install Apache 2.2 on a small server. So far,

Re: When will binary packages be back?

2013-04-10 Thread Mike.
On 4/10/2013 at 11:39 AM Brett Glass wrote: |For many years, I've used FreeBSD binary packages to avoid long |waits and/or having to set up a special build machine when creating |small systems. But even though the development server security |breach is now long past, there are no published

Re: When will binary packages be back?

2013-04-10 Thread Jeff Tipton
On 04/10/2013 22:19, Mike. wrote: On 4/10/2013 at 11:39 AM Brett Glass wrote: |For many years, I've used FreeBSD binary packages to avoid long |waits and/or having to set up a special build machine when creating |small systems. But even though the development server security |breach is now long

Re: When will binary packages be back?

2013-04-10 Thread Michael Powell
WITHOUT_X11= yes in /etc/make.conf. In addition to make config option(s), there may also be some default stuff here and there in the Mk files. The make.conf line will short circuit these. IIRC there may be some exceptions where you need some (a handful or less) of some X related packages. Seem

Re: When will binary packages be back?

2013-04-10 Thread Mike.
you need some (a handful or less) |of |some X related packages. Seem to think of things like gd, imagemagick, |freetype, etc., for PHP kind of things. In these cases, the make.conf line |will blanket cover most of what you don't want and you can choose make |config options that will pull

Re: When will binary packages be back?

2013-04-10 Thread Brett Glass
Just made that into a batch file for my library. Should be a target in the standard ports Makefile, IMHO. Maybe call it rdistclean. Perhaps this could be submitted as a PR. --Brett Glass At 12:37 PM 4/10/2013, Greg Larkin wrote: Here's an easy way to delete all of the distfiles for a port and

Re: When will binary packages be back?

2013-04-10 Thread Walter Hurry
On Wed, 10 Apr 2013 14:14:21 -0600, Brett Glass wrote: Just made that into a batch file for my library. Should be a target in the standard ports Makefile, IMHO. Maybe call it rdistclean. Perhaps this could be submitted as a PR. There are various options in portsclean (provided by ports-mgmt/

Re: State of Packages

2013-04-06 Thread Walter Hurry
On Thu, 04 Apr 2013 14:57:57 -0400, doug wrote: My questions: Does/will pkgng work? Are 9.1 packages on the ISO images? I am in the progess of answering that one for myself but had some time on my hands during the download :) Prebuilt packages are on the way apparently, but I have made my own

Re: State of Packages

2013-04-06 Thread Joshua Isom
On 4/5/2013 7:51 AM, Walter Hurry wrote: On Thu, 04 Apr 2013 14:57:57 -0400, doug wrote: My questions: Does/will pkgng work? Are 9.1 packages on the ISO images? I am in the progess of answering that one for myself but had some time on my hands during the download :) Prebuilt packages

Re: State of Packages

2013-04-06 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Sat, 06 Apr 2013 15:25:42 -0500 Joshua Isom jri...@gmail.com wrote: I've been using FreeBSD since the summer of 2005, I still have the first cd-r I used. The fact that it's so easy makes me wonder why it hasn't been done yet. It's been almost five months. It's easy to build a

Re: State of Packages

2013-04-06 Thread Walter Hurry
. It's been almost five months. It's easy to build a repository, it's hard to build a secure public repository. Agreed; that's why I haven't attempted to do so. Also, I only build packages for the 600 or so packages in which I am interested, and only for the FreeBSD version in use

Re: State of Packages

2013-04-06 Thread Joshua Isom
On 4/6/2013 7:56 PM, Walter Hurry wrote: Agreed; that's why I haven't attempted to do so. Also, I only build packages for the 600 or so packages in which I am interested, and only for the FreeBSD version in use, and only for the specific CPU architecture. Maybe Joshua is overlooking something

State of Packages

2013-04-04 Thread doug
:00 File:src.txz94190 KB12/04/12 10:10:00 This pretty much invalidates 5.4 of the handbook. My questions: Does/will pkgng work? Are 9.1 packages on the ISO images? I am in the progess of answering that one for myself but had some time on my hands during the download

Re: State of Packages

2013-04-04 Thread Bryan Drewery
On 4/4/2013 1:57 PM, d...@safeport.com wrote: Its seems certain that pkg_add is not [going to] be[ing] restored. Progress is being made on providing pkg_add and pkgng packages again. They will come back. Index of ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/9.1-RELEASE/ Name

Re: State of Packages

2013-04-04 Thread Mark Blackman
On 4 Apr 2013, at 21:21, Bryan Drewery bdrew...@freebsd.org wrote: On 4/4/2013 1:57 PM, d...@safeport.com wrote: Its seems certain that pkg_add is not [going to] be[ing] restored. Progress is being made on providing pkg_add and pkgng packages again. They will come back. For those who

Re: State of Packages

2013-04-04 Thread doug
On Thu, 4 Apr 2013, Mark Blackman wrote: On 4 Apr 2013, at 21:21, Bryan Drewery bdrew...@freebsd.org wrote: On 4/4/2013 1:57 PM, d...@safeport.com wrote: Its seems certain that pkg_add is not [going to] be[ing] restored. Progress is being made on providing pkg_add and pkgng packages again

fresh binary packages for 9.1 / 9 stable

2013-03-19 Thread CeDeROM
Hey hey :-) Are there any news on fresh binary packages for 9.1-RELEASE / 9-STABLE? :-) Best regards, Tomek -- CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: no 9.1-release packages?

2013-03-09 Thread Mark Blackman
On 7 Mar 2013, at 15:52, Ruben de Groot mai...@bzerk.org wrote: Hi, I just rented a 9.1-release VPS and was trying to install some packages. This however does not work as there is no directory packages-9.1-release on the ftp server (ftp.freebsd.org). Why is this? If you're prepared

no 9.1-release packages?

2013-03-07 Thread Ruben de Groot
Hi, I just rented a 9.1-release VPS and was trying to install some packages. This however does not work as there is no directory packages-9.1-release on the ftp server (ftp.freebsd.org). Why is this? ftp pwd Remote directory: /pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64 ftp ls 229 Entering Extended Passive Mode

Re: no 9.1-release packages?

2013-03-07 Thread Johan Hendriks
Ruben de Groot schreef: Hi, I just rented a 9.1-release VPS and was trying to install some packages. This however does not work as there is no directory packages-9.1-release on the ftp server (ftp.freebsd.org). Why is this? ftp pwd Remote directory: /pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64 ftp ls 229

Re: no 9.1-release packages?

2013-03-07 Thread Ruben de Groot
On 7 mrt 2013, at 16:58, Johan Hendriks wrote: Ruben de Groot schreef: Hi, I just rented a 9.1-release VPS and was trying to install some packages. This however does not work as there is no directory packages-9.1-release on the ftp server (ftp.freebsd.org). Why

9.1 packages

2013-03-02 Thread Laszlo Danielisz
Hi Guys, Do you have any idea when are going to be the packages available for FreeBSD 9.1? thx! Laszlo ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

Re: Ports Packages [Stable] in sync

2013-02-19 Thread Lowell Gilbert
newer than those of 9-STABLE packages. I think if I don't get the revision number from which the 9-STABLE was updated last time I'll use the ports tree that comes with 9.1-RELEASE. I hope it won't cause much version incompatibilities. Um, not really. Or at least, not specific enough to be sure

Re: Ports Packages [Stable] in sync

2013-02-19 Thread Fleuriot Damien
On Feb 17, 2013, at 3:44 PM, Jeff Tipton jef...@mail.com wrote: On 02/17/2013 13:13, Damien Fleuriot wrote: On 16 Feb 2013, at 16:56, Jeff Tipton jef...@mail.com wrote: Hi, I upgraded 9.0 - 9.1 on my netbook and only then found out that there are no packages for 9.1-RELEASE. On my

Re: Ports Packages [Stable] in sync

2013-02-17 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 16 Feb 2013, at 16:56, Jeff Tipton jef...@mail.com wrote: Hi, I upgraded 9.0 - 9.1 on my netbook and only then found out that there are no packages for 9.1-RELEASE. On my desktops, I keep ports and packages at the RELEASE versions, so I only have to compile when I need non-default

Re: Ports Packages [Stable] in sync

2013-02-17 Thread Jeff Tipton
On 02/17/2013 13:13, Damien Fleuriot wrote: On 16 Feb 2013, at 16:56, Jeff Tipton jef...@mail.com wrote: Hi, I upgraded 9.0 - 9.1 on my netbook and only then found out that there are no packages for 9.1-RELEASE. On my desktops, I keep ports and packages at the RELEASE versions, so I only

Ports Packages [Stable] in sync

2013-02-16 Thread Jeff Tipton
Hi, I upgraded 9.0 - 9.1 on my netbook and only then found out that there are no packages for 9.1-RELEASE. On my desktops, I keep ports and packages at the RELEASE versions, so I only have to compile when I need non-default options or when there are no packages. Would it be possible to get

Re: packages listing

2013-02-10 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 2/10/2013 8:57 AM, Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 9 Feb 2013 22:52:37 -0800 (PST), Dánielisz László wrote: Hi Everybody, Do you have any idea how can I list those installed packages that are not required by any other? You can use sysutils/pkg_cutleaves to determine those. I use

RE: packages listing

2013-02-10 Thread Teske, Devin
On Sun, 10 Feb 2013, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: On 2/10/2013 8:57 AM, Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 9 Feb 2013 22:52:37 -0800 (PST), Dánielisz László wrote: Hi Everybody, Do you have any idea how can I list those installed packages that are not required by any other? You can use sysutils

Re: packages listing

2013-02-10 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 2/10/2013 3:09 PM, Teske, Devin wrote: Just curious, why not use pkg_info -Ra instead of pkg_info -R '*' ? Because I didnt know -a;) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: packages listing

2013-02-10 Thread Dánielisz László
@freebsd.org Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2013 2:51 PM Subject: Re: packages listing On 2/10/2013 3:09 PM, Teske, Devin wrote: Just curious, why not use pkg_info -Ra instead of pkg_info -R '*' ? Because I didnt know -a;) ___ freebsd-questions

packages listing

2013-02-09 Thread Dánielisz László
Hi Everybody, Do you have any idea how can I list those installed packages that are not required by any other? Thx! Laszlo ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: packages listing

2013-02-09 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 9 Feb 2013 22:52:37 -0800 (PST), Dánielisz László wrote: Hi Everybody, Do you have any idea how can I list those installed packages that are not required by any other? You can use sysutils/pkg_cutleaves to determine those. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since

Re: packages listing

2013-02-09 Thread Ross
pkg_tree -t -q On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 8:52 AM, Dánielisz László laszlo_daniel...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi Everybody, Do you have any idea how can I list those installed packages that are not required by any other? Thx! Laszlo ___ freebsd-questions

Building a release with custom packages

2012-10-08 Thread Rick Miller
Hi All, If anyone has interest, I have a new blog post on building a FreeBSD release with custom packages at http://blog.hostileadmin.com/2012/10/08/building-freebsd-media-with-custom-packages/ -- Take care Rick Miller ___ freebsd-questions

Re: I Can Has Packages?

2012-08-20 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 06:38:33 +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: I always keep saying the ideal situation would be that you could customise and compile just your own really mission critical software and freely mix that with installing pre-compiled packages of anything else from the public

Re: I Can Has Packages?

2012-08-20 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
pre-compiled packages of anything else from the public repositories. To be honest, that's what I'm doing for many years now. I tend to compile only those ports where it is either required in order to obtain the software because no suitable package does exist (e. g. OpenOffice), or because I

I Can Has Packages?

2012-08-19 Thread vermaden
HI, OpenBSD seems to have packages for everything, even for LAME (audio/lame), why FreeBSD can not provide package for LAME the same way as OpenBSD does? Regards, vermaden -- ... ___ freebsd-questions

Re: I Can Has Packages?

2012-08-19 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 19 Aug 2012 20:33:49 +0200, vermaden wrote: HI, OpenBSD seems to have packages for everything, even for LAME (audio/lame), why FreeBSD can not provide package for LAME the same way as OpenBSD does? j00 CAN haz pakagez. =^_^= Packages for _everything_ is impossible because

Re: I Can Has Packages?

2012-08-19 Thread vermaden
Hai ;) Polytropon free...@edvax.de: On Sun, 19 Aug 2012 20:33:49 +0200, vermaden wrote: HI, OpenBSD seems to have packages for everything, even for LAME (audio/lame), why FreeBSD can not provide package for LAME the same way as OpenBSD does? j00 CAN haz pakagez. =^_^= Packages

Re: I Can Has Packages?

2012-08-19 Thread vermaden
... I even got a screenshot of how these *flavours* and *subpackages* work, here: http://ompldr.org/vZjV2bQ Polytropon free...@edvax.de pisze: On Sun, 19 Aug 2012 20:33:49 +0200, vermaden wrote: HI, OpenBSD seems to have packages for everything, even for LAME (audio/lame), why

Re: I Can Has Packages?

2012-08-19 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 19 Aug 2012 22:54:52 +0200, vermaden wrote: Polytropon free...@edvax.de: On Sun, 19 Aug 2012 20:33:49 +0200, vermaden wrote: HI, OpenBSD seems to have packages for everything, even for LAME (audio/lame), why FreeBSD can not provide package for LAME the same way

Re: I Can Has Packages?

2012-08-19 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 11:27:54PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2012 23:27:54 +0200 From: Polytropon free...@edvax.de Subject: Re: I Can Has Packages? To: vermaden verma...@interia.pl Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.1.1 (GTK+ 2.24.5; i386-portbld

Re: I Can Has Packages?

2012-08-19 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Polytropon == Polytropon free...@edvax.de writes: Polytropon I just assume providing packages for every imaginable Polytropon combination requires lots of resources. As an example Polytropon take OpenOffice: Every language variant, then integration Polytropon with KDE, Gnome, or none of them

Re: I Can Has Packages?

2012-08-19 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 20/08/2012 04:07, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Polytropon == Polytropon free...@edvax.de writes: Polytropon I just assume providing packages for every imaginable Polytropon combination requires lots of resources. As an example Polytropon take OpenOffice: Every language variant

Updating packages

2012-06-03 Thread Waitman Gobble
I have tried the available package update methods. It occurred to me to experiment with a different way. I am working on a package update script in Python as an alternate way to update installed packages with latest available on the FreeBSD web site. It parses the index page of the web site

stay up to date with ports and packages, problem

2012-05-19 Thread Beastie-Boy
, did the fetch and extract again, problem persists still. Yes, i searched all the forums and read a lot about managing ports and packages. Right now i am stuck. So, how do i delete really *all* ports and *all* packages at once? Is it possible with doing a fectch and extract having the latest ports? I

Re: stay up to date with ports and packages, problem

2012-05-19 Thread Matthew Seaman
software package. I deleted the whole ports-dir, did the fetch and extract again, problem persists still. Yep. I hope you can see from what I wrote above how doing that wouldn't solve the problem you are seeing. Yes, i searched all the forums and read a lot about managing ports and packages

Re: stay up to date with ports and packages, problem

2012-05-19 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 19 May 2012, Matthew Seaman wrote: That's a bit drastic and pretty much something you'ld never actually want to do in normal usage. However, for completeness' sake: # pkg_delete -af will remove all installed ports. After doing that there should be hardly anything left under

Re: stay up to date with ports and packages, problem

2012-05-19 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 19/05/2012 16:07, Warren Block wrote: The -f is probably not needed. I've done this rarely enough to not recall, but -a should sort everything in the right order so dependencies are uninstalled in order. I find that 'pkg_delete -af' gives more reliable results. Agreed, it should not be

Re: stay up to date with ports and packages, problem

2012-05-19 Thread Beastie-Boy
Ok, many thanks for your replies. I forgot to tell that i recently upgraded from 8.1 to 9.0-RELEASE. That excplains maybe why i had obsolete/old packages/ports on my disk. The problem i had was that gdm, gnome didnt start after the upgrade. So i tried to build the gnome and gdm thing again via

Re: stay up to date with ports and packages, problem

2012-05-19 Thread RW
On Sat, 19 May 2012 11:08:19 -0700 (PDT) Beastie-Boy wrote: Ok, many thanks for your replies. I forgot to tell that i recently upgraded from 8.1 to 9.0-RELEASE. That excplains maybe why i had obsolete/old packages/ports on my disk. When you cross a major OS release boundary, you need

Re: stay up to date with ports and packages, problem

2012-05-19 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 19 May 2012 19:43:09 +0100, RW wrote: On Sat, 19 May 2012 11:08:19 -0700 (PDT) Beastie-Boy wrote: Ok, many thanks for your replies. I forgot to tell that i recently upgraded from 8.1 to 9.0-RELEASE. That excplains maybe why i had obsolete/old packages/ports on my disk. When

Re: stay up to date with ports and packages, problem

2012-05-19 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 19/05/2012 20:08, Beastie-Boy wrote: I forgot to tell that i recently upgraded from 8.1 to 9.0-RELEASE. That excplains maybe why i had obsolete/old packages/ports on my disk. Ahah! That is exactly the situation where you do want to remove all your installed ports and rebuild them

Re: stay up to date with ports and packages, problem

2012-05-19 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 19 May 2012 11:08:19 -0700 (PDT), Beastie-Boy wrote: Ok, many thanks for your replies. I forgot to tell that i recently upgraded from 8.1 to 9.0-RELEASE. That excplains maybe why i had obsolete/old packages/ports on my disk. When you do such an update (major version number), you should

Re: stay up to date with ports and packages, problem

2012-05-19 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 19/05/2012 21:09, Polytropon wrote: Sorry i cant paste logs, bsd is running on another machine. You can use SSH to log into the BSD machine and cut text from the session. :-) Or just run: % script /tmp/session.log Do all your updating tasks, then type 'exit' when done, and you'll get

Re: stay up to date with ports and packages, problem

2012-05-19 Thread doug
On Sat, 19 May 2012, Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 19 May 2012 11:08:19 -0700 (PDT), Beastie-Boy wrote: Ok, many thanks for your replies. I forgot to tell that i recently upgraded from 8.1 to 9.0-RELEASE. That excplains maybe why i had obsolete/old packages/ports on my disk. When you do

Preventing portmaster from using packages for specified ports

2012-05-08 Thread Mike Clarke
I'm happy to use the -P option to let portmaster use packages for most of my ports but there's a few that must be compiled from the port instead because I need to configure non default options, e.g. to enable GIMP plugin support in graphics/xsane Is there any way of forcing portmaster

Re: Preventing portmaster from using packages for specified ports

2012-05-08 Thread John Webster
--On May 8, 2012 9:33:59 PM +0100 Mike Clarke jmc-freeb...@milibyte.co.uk wrote: I'm happy to use the -P option to let portmaster use packages for most of my ports but there's a few that must be compiled from the port instead because I need to configure non default options, e.g. to enable

Re: Preventing portmaster from using packages for specified ports

2012-05-08 Thread Mike Clarke
On Tuesday 08 May 2012, John Webster wrote: Would this work for you?  From the manpage:      For those who wish to be sure that specific ports are always compiled instead of being installed from packages the PT_NO_INSTALL_PACKAGE vari- able can be defined in the make(1) environment, perhaps

Re: Preventing portmaster from using packages for specified ports

2012-05-08 Thread John Webster
--On May 8, 2012 10:51:16 PM +0100 Mike Clarke jmc-freeb...@milibyte.co.uk wrote: On Tuesday 08 May 2012, John Webster wrote: Would this work for you?  From the manpage:      For those who wish to be sure that specific ports are always compiled instead of being installed from packages

Re: Unable to upgrade packages on FreeBSD

2012-02-02 Thread Bernt Hansson
2012-02-01 19:16, David Jackson skrev: I did not save them, there is really no way to save a copy of them unless I copy them by hand. I take it you are new to FreeBSD. May I introduce you to script man script(1) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Unable to upgrade packages on FreeBSD

2012-02-02 Thread Waitman Gobble
freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org One thing I noticed, which may cause some trouble(?) http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-10-current/ is empty, no packages. So pkg_add fails for everything... Running 10-CURRENT I have to set PACKAGESITE to http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub

Re: Unable to upgrade packages on FreeBSD

2012-02-02 Thread Eduardo Morras
a RELEASE perhaps you don't know that the packages are frozen but all are known to work without problems. Switch to -STABLE if you want access newer packages but perhaps there will be problems with them from time to time. Check -stable maillist. HTH

Re: Unable to upgrade packages on FreeBSD

2012-02-01 Thread Eduardo Morras
and resource cost problems, it offers far too much opportunity for people up-to-no-good to be able to introduce trojans, spyware and so forth. No no, i didn't said i will make them manually, i wanted to said that i can add one server amd64 to the pool of automate servers that make the packages, i

Re: Unable to upgrade packages on FreeBSD

2012-02-01 Thread David Jackson
one server amd64 to the pool of automate servers that make the packages, i think it works automatically and distribute workload like boinc or other similar net. About the people which introduce trojans, rootkits etc... i didn't think on that issue and is really a very important stopper

Re: Unable to upgrade packages on FreeBSD

2012-02-01 Thread David Jackson
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 12:54 AM, Bernt Hansson b...@bananmonarki.se wrote: 2012-01-31 01:13, freebsd-lists-erik@**erikosterholm.orgfreebsd-lists-e...@erikosterholm.orgskrev: Oh come on, guys. David is the same person who said that FreeBSD was poorly documented.

Re: Unable to upgrade packages on FreeBSD

2012-02-01 Thread David Jackson
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 12:51 AM, Bernt Hansson b...@bananmonarki.se wrote: 2012-01-30 18:52, David Jackson skrev: I have tried endlessly to no avail to upgrade binary the packages on Freebsd to the latest version. I have tried: *portupgrade -PP -a *portmaster -PP -a *pkg_update All

Re: Unable to upgrade packages on FreeBSD

2012-01-31 Thread Chad Perrin
. There are, I think... at least 10 languages available, and combine this with Gnome, KDE and CUPS support OFF or ON, and you have 10*2*2*2 = 80 packages, and still no scheme to name them. :-) Don't forget compiling for multiple architectures. That adds more options -- and, unlike some of those other

Re: Unable to upgrade packages on FreeBSD

2012-01-31 Thread Eduardo Morras
and people are needed to maintain a package system up-to-date. I have a free server (amd64 freebsd8.2p6), if i built all packages with their standard options, that's without make config, Can i upload them to the official package ftp? Should i make my own un-official ftp package server to allow

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