Re: AMD64 packages - Reflecting dynamic linking

2015-01-01 Thread Theo de Raadt
And who are you, and what you have you done to test and then prove your thesis? Absolutely nothing, I must assume. (BTW, your argument is weak and would be stronger if you tied it into the faked moonlandings). I may get a little off-topic here and object for this very important topic to be

Re: AMD64 packages - Reflecting dynamic linking

2015-01-01 Thread FRIGN
On Thu, 01 Jan 2015 09:37:24 -0700 Theo de Raadt dera...@cvs.openbsd.org wrote: And who are you, and what you have you done to test and then prove your thesis? Absolutely nothing, I must assume. Your assumption is wrong. I am working with my colleagues from 2f30 on the morpheus-project[0]

Re: AMD64 packages - Reflecting dynamic linking

2015-01-01 Thread Theo de Raadt
And who are you, and what you have you done to test and then prove your thesis? Absolutely nothing, I must assume. Your assumption is wrong. I am working with my colleagues from 2f30 on the morpheus-project[0] (including package-manager) and we have a set of static binary-packages[1]

Re: AMD64 packages - Reflecting dynamic linking

2015-01-01 Thread Joel Rees
At the risk of having Theo tell me to shut up and get back to work on things that matter, ... On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 1:33 AM, FRIGN d...@frign.de wrote: On Fri, 12 Dec 2014 20:02:33 +0100 Ingo Schwarze schwa...@usta.de wrote: There are dragons. If this scares anybody, i'm not surprised;

Re: AMD64 packages - Reflecting dynamic linking

2015-01-01 Thread Adam Thompson
On 15-01-01 07:44 PM, Joel Rees wrote: At the risk of having Theo tell me to shut up and get back to work on things that matter, ... and I suppose it's inevitible that someone will want to control the world, but I really wish you and your friends would quit lying to yourselves about power. I

Re: AMD64 packages - Reflecting dynamic linking

2015-01-01 Thread FRIGN
On Fri, 12 Dec 2014 20:02:33 +0100 Ingo Schwarze schwa...@usta.de wrote: There are dragons. If this scares anybody, i'm not surprised; updating libraries is not a playground for newbies. That, actually, is *terrible* advice and almost guarantees a fiasco. If you edit shlib_version

Re: AMD64 packages - Reflecting dynamic linking

2015-01-01 Thread FRIGN
On Thu, 01 Jan 2015 10:04:26 -0700 Theo de Raadt dera...@cvs.openbsd.org wrote: Ah, another arrogance -- you came here to advertise. Nope, if you read my first mail again, you'd see that I did not mention our project once and only presented it to challenge your assumption that I'm just some

Re: AMD64 packages - Reflecting dynamic linking

2015-01-01 Thread Jorge Gabriel Lopez Paramount
Quoting FRIGN d...@frign.de: It may be a little far-fetched, but I'm sure it would be possible to have one package-manager for all distributions if there would just be the motivation to distribute statically linked binaries and not fuck things up with distribution-specific folder-structures.

Re: AMD64 packages

2014-12-12 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2014-12-12, ian kremlin i...@kremlin.cc wrote: whenever i grab a snapshot and get library version mismatches after a `pkg_add -u`, i've found the easiest way to get those objects is grab a fresh source tree and compile them manually. for example, libc: cd /usr/src/lib/libc edit

Re: AMD64 packages

2014-12-12 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi Ian, ian kremlin wrote on Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 10:04:26PM -0500: whenever i grab a snapshot and get library version mismatches after a `pkg_add -u`, i've found the easiest way to get those objects Definitely not the easiest way. Waiting for the next snapshot is definitely much easier and

Re: AMD64 packages

2014-12-12 Thread Theo de Raadt
ian kremlin wrote on Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 10:04:26PM -0500: whenever i grab a snapshot and get library version mismatches after a `pkg_add -u`, i've found the easiest way to get those objects Definitely not the easiest way. Waiting for the next snapshot is definitely much easier and

Re: AMD64 packages

2014-12-12 Thread Stan Gammons
On Dec 12, 2014 1:06 PM, Theo de Raadt dera...@cvs.openbsd.org wrote: ian kremlin wrote on Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 10:04:26PM -0500: whenever i grab a snapshot and get library version mismatches after a `pkg_add -u`, i've found the easiest way to get those objects Definitely not the

Re: AMD64 packages

2014-12-12 Thread ian kremlin
On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 2:02 PM, Ingo Schwarze schwa...@usta.de wrote: There are dragons. ingo, theo: sorry to post toxic advice, and thanks for the knowledge. i did not realize how shlib_version worked. i must have gotten lucky with my build but i should go back and fix it properly now ian

Re: AMD64 packages

2014-12-11 Thread Theo de Raadt
If you don't understand that snapshots get built, that libraries crank, that there are PEOPLE building this, that the data takes time to get to the mirrors, and that this is a non-static situation, that small catch-up syncronization errors are made, that they get fixed by real people,

Re: AMD64 packages

2014-12-11 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2014-12-11, Stan Gammons sg063...@gmail.com wrote: Ok. The way I normally update is by downloading the install5x.iso, make the cd and boot from it, do an upgrade, reboot, do a sysmerge, then do pkg_add -u. After all the failures because of the library mismatch, kde4 will no longer start

Re: AMD64 packages

2014-12-11 Thread Mihai Popescu
The conversation is very META. What is META?

Re: AMD64 packages

2014-12-11 Thread Janne Johansson
That it is a discussion about a discussion, not about any topic of its own. 2014-12-11 12:37 GMT+01:00 Mihai Popescu mih...@gmail.com: The conversation is very META. What is META? -- May the most significant bit of your life be positive.

Re: AMD64 packages

2014-12-11 Thread FRIGN
On Wed, 10 Dec 2014 21:27:46 -0500 STeve Andre' and...@msu.edu wrote: You might want to subscribe to the ports-changes changes list, which will show you what's been changed. The source-changes list will show you all the other cvs commits. Look at http://www.openbsd.org/mail.html Btw, now

Re: AMD64 packages

2014-12-11 Thread Oliver Peter
On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 11:59:55AM +0100, FRIGN wrote: Btw, now that the topic has come up. Is there a way to view the diffs quickly on a source- or port-change? Not official and not instantly updated: http://anoncvs.estpak.ee/cgi-bin/cgit/openbsd-ports/log/ -- Oliver PETER

Re: AMD64 packages

2014-12-11 Thread Björn Ketelaars
you could try http://anoncvs.estpak.ee/cgi-bin/cgit/openbsd-ports/log/ On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 11:59 AM, FRIGN d...@frign.de wrote: On Wed, 10 Dec 2014 21:27:46 -0500 STeve Andre' and...@msu.edu wrote: You might want to subscribe to the ports-changes changes list, which will show you

Re: AMD64 packages

2014-12-11 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2014-12-11, Oliver Peter li...@peter.de.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 11:59:55AM +0100, FRIGN wrote: Btw, now that the topic has come up. Is there a way to view the diffs quickly on a source- or port-change? Not official and not instantly updated:

Re: AMD64 packages

2014-12-11 Thread STeve Andre'
On 12/11/14 05:59, FRIGN wrote: On Wed, 10 Dec 2014 21:27:46 -0500 STeve Andre' and...@msu.edu wrote: You might want to subscribe to the ports-changes changes list, which will show you what's been changed. The source-changes list will show you all the other cvs commits. Look at

Re: AMD64 packages

2014-12-11 Thread ian kremlin
whenever i grab a snapshot and get library version mismatches after a `pkg_add -u`, i've found the easiest way to get those objects is grab a fresh source tree and compile them manually. for example, libc: cd /usr/src/lib/libc edit 'shlib_version' to have the appropriate major/minor versions

Re: AMD64 packages

2014-12-10 Thread STeve Andre'
On 12/10/14 20:51, Stan Gammons wrote: When will new packages be built for AMD64? I'm getting library errors with the latest snapshot and the current packages. Stan They come out frequently, but not on a set schedule. Since the last set came out on the 6th, I would expect the next set in

Re: AMD64 packages

2014-12-10 Thread Stan Gammons
On Dec 10, 2014 10:03 PM, STeve Andre' and...@msu.edu wrote: On 12/10/14 20:51, Stan Gammons wrote: When will new packages be built for AMD64? I'm getting library errors with the latest snapshot and the current packages. Stan They come out frequently, but not on a set schedule. Since

Re: AMD64 packages

2014-12-10 Thread Liviu Daia
On 10 December 2014, Stan Gammons sg063...@gmail.com wrote: When will new packages be built for AMD64? I'm getting library errors with the latest snapshot and the current packages. There are bigger problems with the latest snapshot: $ ldd /usr/sbin/unbound

Re: AMD64 packages

2014-12-10 Thread Theo de Raadt
Look, this is rather simple. If you don't understand that snapshots get built, that libraries crank, that there are PEOPLE building this, that the data takes time to get to the mirrors, and that this is a non-static situation, that small catch-up syncronization errors are made, that they get

Re: AMD64 packages

2014-12-10 Thread Liviu Daia
On 11 December 2014, Theo de Raadt dera...@cvs.openbsd.org wrote: On 10 December 2014, Stan Gammons sg063...@gmail.com wrote: When will new packages be built for AMD64? I'm getting library errors with the latest snapshot and the current packages. There are bigger problems with