Re: locate weirdness

2012-01-14 Thread L. V. Lammert
On Sat, 14 Jan 2012, Philip Guenther wrote: > Any progress? I see plenty of replies to the people that you *don't* > think are helping you but no reply to my question about what user you > think locate.updatedb runs as, something which does factor into being > able to solve this... > The answer w

Re: 'pkg_add -u' question

2012-01-14 Thread Theo de Raadt
> I have a notebook with a couple of devices which require non-free > firmware. When I installed 5.0-release (amd64 from CD) it asked me if I > wanted those files downloaded on first boot; when I said YES it > proceeded to find and download them and everything 'just worked'. > (This was very conve

Re: locate weirdness

2012-01-14 Thread Philip Guenther
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 1:02 PM, L. V. Lammert wrote: > Thanks again to those that actually read the original question, .. I am > continuing to try and resolve the issue. Any progress? I see plenty of replies to the people that you *don't* think are helping you but no reply to my question about

Re: 'pkg_add -u' question

2012-01-14 Thread Theo de Raadt
> How often is firmware updated without a maching driver update? > fw_update is really just to provide an automated fuction during > install or upgrade, the same time when you are getting a new > kernel/drier, it would be rare that a new firmware is available for an > existing system, although pote

Re: The (unofficial) opebsd repo in github is outdated

2012-01-14 Thread Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado
On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 01:46:50 +0100, joshua stein wrote: The openbsd repo in github is outdated. Are the owners reading the list? Can someone update the repo?. Github doesn't show me a contact address for the "organization", so I thing this list is the best option for report the problem. the c

Re: 'pkg_add -u' question

2012-01-14 Thread Theo de Raadt
> On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 10:13:07PM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: > > On 2012-01-14, Jason McIntyre wrote: > > > however i'm not sure when the author intended fw_update to be used. i.e. > > > in the course of upgrading or whenever you please. > > > > fw_update is run automatically on the first

Re: 'pkg_add -u' question

2012-01-14 Thread Chris Cappuccio
Jason McIntyre [j...@cava.myzen.co.uk] wrote: > > right. but is there any reason to discourage people from running it when > they please, or do we just expect it to be done automatically after > upgrade? > > i ask because we need to watch how we word this. we could reasonably > assume that people

OpenBSD related jobs?

2012-01-14 Thread Sime Ramov
OpenBSD is so far above and beyond anything else out there that I am having a hard time using other systems. I would *love* to work for an OpenBSD-centric company, either part-time, or full-time, preferably from home. Feel free to email me at for further details, if you're interested. Thanks, -

Re: UPGRADE DAMNIT

2012-01-14 Thread patric conant
+1 remote upgrades are so clean and effective, and the directions are clear enough that I've not been able to drink enough beer to interfere with the process. On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 11:45 AM, Marc Espie wrote: > On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 05:16:15PM +, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > > I'm surprised y

Re: 'pkg_add -u' question

2012-01-14 Thread Jason McIntyre
On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 10:13:07PM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2012-01-14, Jason McIntyre wrote: > > however i'm not sure when the author intended fw_update to be used. i.e. > > in the course of upgrading or whenever you please. > > fw_update is run automatically on the first boot after y

Re: 'pkg_add -u' question

2012-01-14 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2012-01-14, Jason McIntyre wrote: > however i'm not sure when the author intended fw_update to be used. i.e. > in the course of upgrading or whenever you please. fw_update is run automatically on the first boot after you upgrade via the usual installer (bsd.rd / install51.iso / cd51.iso etc).

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Re: gvrp support

2012-01-14 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Ilya Shipitsin wrote: > does OpenBSD support GVRP ? No. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de

Re: Multiple ISP-connections/Routing/Packet filtering

2012-01-14 Thread Denis Fondras
Hello, Unfortunately, the pf.conf syntax has changed since v4.6 and while I do plan to upgrade my own firewall to v5.0 (I've bought the CD already) I haven't yet had time to perform the upgrade. As a result, I haven't worked out what the equivalent 'modern' syntax would be, but you might be abl

Re: 'pkg_add -u' question

2012-01-14 Thread Dave Anderson
On Sat, 14 Jan 2012, Ingo Schwarze wrote: >Hi Dave, > >Dave Anderson wrote on Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 12:14:57PM -0500: > >> and then ran 'pkg_add -ui' it was unable to update those files: >> "Couldn't find updates for uvideo-firmware-1.2p0, iwn-firmware-5.6p0". > >The firmwares live in a different p

Re: 'pkg_add -u' question

2012-01-14 Thread Jason McIntyre
On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 06:51:05PM +0100, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > Hi Dave, > > Dave Anderson wrote on Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 12:14:57PM -0500: > > > and then ran 'pkg_add -ui' it was unable to update those files: > > "Couldn't find updates for uvideo-firmware-1.2p0, iwn-firmware-5.6p0". > > The fir

gvrp support

2012-01-14 Thread Илья Шипицин
hello! does OpenBSD support GVRP ? Cheers, Ilya Shipitsin

Re: 'pkg_add -u' question

2012-01-14 Thread Remco
Dave Anderson wrote: > I have a notebook with a couple of devices which require non-free > firmware. When I installed 5.0-release (amd64 from CD) it asked me if I > wanted those files downloaded on first boot; when I said YES it > proceeded to find and download them and everything 'just worked'.

Re: 'pkg_add -u' question

2012-01-14 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi Dave, Dave Anderson wrote on Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 12:14:57PM -0500: > and then ran 'pkg_add -ui' it was unable to update those files: > "Couldn't find updates for uvideo-firmware-1.2p0, iwn-firmware-5.6p0". The firmwares live in a different package repository, that's why pkg_add(1) doesn't fi

'pkg_add -u' question

2012-01-14 Thread Dave Anderson
I have a notebook with a couple of devices which require non-free firmware. When I installed 5.0-release (amd64 from CD) it asked me if I wanted those files downloaded on first boot; when I said YES it proceeded to find and download them and everything 'just worked'. (This was very convenient; my

Re: disk management

2012-01-14 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 04:20:07PM +0200, Vitali wrote: > >> There is one more philosophical side effect of this question - speed. > >> The closer the partition is placed to the outer cylinders, the faster > >> the data are read from it. > > > > More a methaphysical question. On modern disks, the