Re: Why are so many people running and writing about current snapshots

To answer your original question: yes, 6.3 is almost here. We've been running this schedule of twice a year releases for *decades*, so you as a fan of stable OpenBSD releases should be familiar with the time frames by now, no? On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 8:31 PM, Z Ero

Re: Why are so many people running and writing about current snapshots

Your specification and requirements are so clear. But this isn't a pony shop. Who cares what you want? Really, noone. > I just don't want OpenBSD to turn into Linux where the fixation is on > newest shiny thing rather than doing code right. Sometimes I think > people who are excessively

Re: Why are so many people running and writing about current snapshots

I just don't want OpenBSD to turn into Linux where the fixation is on newest shiny thing rather than doing code right. Sometimes I think people who are excessively interested in bleeding edge features more want an OS for tinkering with than an OS for production / work. I want something stable to

Re: segfault when exiting a program

On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 5:37 PM, Nicolas Schmidt wrote: > > a while ago I posted on this list because of a problem I experienced with > building OpenBSD 6.2-current from source (the base system, not the kernel). https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html#Flavors I'm not

segfault when exiting a program

Hi, a while ago I posted on this list because of a problem I experienced with building OpenBSD 6.2-current from source (the base system, not the kernel). Today I found the culprit, and it's rather strange: returning from main(), or calling exit() explicitly causes a segmentation fault. A

Re: "pkg_add automake%latest" can be done, or user needs to script it himself?

On 2018-03-26, Chris Bennett wrote: > There are a few packages that you need to manually massage. > auto* is a good example if you want them all. > ghostscript is another. I want the gtk version, but it defaults to > plain ghostscript since that dependency is

Re: PPPoE connection closing right after authentication?

Jon Martin(jmg...@gmail.com) on 2018.03.22 13:19:51 -0600: > On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 10:27:16AM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: > > > > It's not clear from your mail, have you tried just using CHAP? > > That's what I get for writing e-mails in the middle of the night. > > I did try CHAP: > >

How is the synaptics driver loaded in OpenBSD v6.2, thanks.

Hello to all.  I'm using OpenBSD 6.2. I try to figure out how is loaded the synaptics driver. In the /var/log/Xorg.0.log file I can see that the driver is loaded by X: LoadModule: "synaptics" Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/input/synaptics_drv.so . . .   But I can not find in any configuration

Re: OpenBGPd Changes from 5.x to 6.2

Mike Hammett(openbsd-m...@ics-il.net) on 2018.03.26 10:34:24 -0500: > Did the config for openbgpd change from 5 to 6? I copied a config file Yes. > over and it complains about a line I have, `softreconfig in yes`. It > doesn't show in https://man.openbsd.org/bgpd.conf but >

Re: Design-Implementation-FreeBSD-Operating-System

On Mon, 26 Mar 2018, elo morio wrote: > Thank you guys for you responses, they have really been very helpful. Mr. > Austin I Would really appreciate a copy of the book. What would be needed > then? Great! Will reply off list.

OpenBGPd Changes from 5.x to 6.2

Did the config for openbgpd change from 5 to 6? I copied a config file over and it complains about a line I have, `softreconfig in yes`. It doesn't show in https://man.openbsd.org/bgpd.conf but https://man.openbsd.org/bgpctl references it. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing

Re: "pkg_add automake%latest" can be done, or user needs to script it himself?

There are a few packages that you need to manually massage. auto* is a good example if you want them all. ghostscript is another. I want the gtk version, but it defaults to plain ghostscript since that dependency is called by earlier packages being installed. ghostscript, amongst several others,

Re: locale settings for spelling, paper size, etc

Austin Hook writes: > I have for a long time set my /etc/papersize to "letter". In my > experience Firefox ignores it. At some point the default setup for the > Firefox package became A4 and I have to manually re-set it to letter, > manually in the pop-up, whenever I print.

Re: Xorg hangs on startup (skylake)

abi wrote > On 10.03.2018 14:29, Stefan Sperling wrote: >> On Sat, Mar 10, 2018 at 02:18:16PM +0300, abi wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> I'm new to OpenBSD, but I'm old FreeBSD user. I've installed >>> >>> OpenBSD 6.2 to XPS 13 /Skylake/ laptop (it runs FreeBSD with >>> unsignificant >>> issues). >>>

Re: Why are so many people running and writing about current snapshots

On 2018-03-25, Z Ero wrote: > Is 6.3 release almost here? Is that why? If you are using your > computer for production and are not actively developing / debugging > OpenBSD why would you run a current snapshot rather than the stable > release? Just curious. - easy access

Re: which mirrors list ?

On 2018-03-25, vincent delft wrote: > Hello, > > I'm just discovering that there are several sources of mirrors for http(s) > sites. > > Is there any specific reasons why different sources with different content > ? > Are they all up-to-date ? > > >

Re: "pkg_add automake%latest" can be done, or user needs to script it himself?

On 2018-03-26, Tinker wrote: > "pkg_add automake" asks you interactively which version you would like > to install. Similarly specifying "noninteractive" and "fuzzy" mode both > don't have the effect of installing the latest version, see pkg_add > output below. # pkg_add

Re: Design-Implementation-FreeBSD-Operating-System

Thank you guys for you responses, they have really been very helpful. Mr. Austin I Would really appreciate a copy of the book. What would be needed then? On Mon, Mar 26, 2018, 8:06 AM Austin Hook wrote: > On Sat, 24 Mar 2018, elo morio wrote: > > Are there any existing

Design-Implementation-FreeBSD-Operating-System

On Sat, 24 Mar 2018, elo morio wrote: > Are there any existing Documentation, manuals or supplementary > expository books that details out the internals of OpenBSD. Otherwise > what books or materials would be close enough to better aid the newbie > wishing to hack on the systems internals. As

Re: locale settings for spelling, paper size, etc

I have for a long time set my /etc/papersize to "letter". In my experience Firefox ignores it. At some point the default setup for the Firefox package became A4 and I have to manually re-set it to letter, manually in the pop-up, whenever I print. Can't make it default to letter. Can't

"pkg_add automake%latest" can be done, or user needs to script it himself?

Hi! Some packages, such as automake and autoconf, come in more versions within the same flavor. Certain ports will depend on a particular version of a package, and that's why more versions of the same package and flavor are distributed. As a user, you may be fine with just knowing that the