Re: audio plays too fast

2005-08-15 Thread Marc Espie
On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 11:24:24PM +0200, Jernej Vodopivec wrote: The only solution I've found is that I have to resample each file from 44100 to 48000 with sox - but this isn't acceptable solution - at least not in longterm.. Is there any solution for this problem yet? mplayer is

Re: Ports Question - Update

2005-08-16 Thread Marc Espie
On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 05:03:34AM -0500, Dave Feustel wrote: I tried using pkg_add -r unzip That didn't work, but I think the reason is that both the new and the old had the same version number (5.51). This is 3.7 behavior, newer pkg_add will update if something useful actually changed.

Re: network traffic monitoring - bandwidth problem

2005-08-23 Thread Marc Espie
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 11:30:48AM +0200, Miroslav Kubik wrote: Hi This application looks great but I can't still compile it. I tryed it on OpenBSD 3.7 and 3.5 but without success. There is problem with libpng. configure says that I have no libpng but I've compiled libpng 1.2.8.

Re: 3.8 beta requests

2005-08-23 Thread Marc Espie
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 01:32:11PM +0200, Rogier Krieger wrote: On 8/23/05, Theo de Raadt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This release will bring a lot of new ideas from us. One of them in particular is somewhat risky. First off: I like the idea. The technical merit is obvious. I have a

Re: 3.8 beta requests

2005-08-24 Thread Marc Espie
On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 08:09:36AM -0500, Dave Feustel wrote: On Wednesday 24 August 2005 07:04, Hannah Schroeter wrote: A few things that get bitten are some packages doing their own and very different memory management, but can't avoid malloc altogether. That is ports/lang/clisp, that

Re: package installation script hints

2005-08-24 Thread Marc Espie
On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 04:35:13PM -0400, Will H. Backman wrote: 1. Packages get installed in a sub-optimal order. Quite often one package on the list will have already been installed as a dependency. I think my script downloads the redundant package before deciding that it was already

Re: package installation script hints

2005-08-25 Thread Marc Espie
On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 10:08:53AM -0400, Will H. Backman wrote: 1 - If the new host happens to have one of those packages installed, perhaps because I stopped the installation of packages the first time, then pkg_add will stop when it hits an already installed package. I can fix that with

Re: package installation script hints

2005-08-26 Thread Marc Espie
On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 09:28:04AM -0400, Will H. Backman wrote: 2 - How is pkg_add -u working for people? It works fine for me. I don't know about other people yet, you tell me... Aug 24 snapshot, trying just pkg_add -u causes it to say updating package - package for every single

Re: update /etc/changelist as part of package install?

2005-09-05 Thread Marc Espie
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 03:11:02PM -0400, Steve Shockley wrote: MikeyG wrote: Just a thought. For packages with sensitive system configs wouldn't it be useful if the install automatically patched /etc/changelist. Also it might help if they modified /etc/mtree/special too, although this is

Re: Lifecycle question

2005-09-06 Thread Marc Espie
--On 06 September 2005 10:16 +0200, Stephan A. Rickauer wrote: There is one thing I still don't understand. What effort is it to deliver patches (not backports) longer than just a few month - given that the overall amount of patches per release is low with OpenBSD anyway... let's say you have

Re: packages

2005-09-16 Thread Marc Espie
On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 03:03:35PM -0700, Bryan Irvine wrote: How do I isntall every package in a directory? I've built one server (ldap/postfix/etc... yadda yadda) and I now want to create 2 exact duplicate configurations with the existing packages (that were orginially compiled from

Re: ftp-proxy makes new connection for each file

2005-09-20 Thread Marc Espie
On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 05:47:08PM +0200, Marc Peters wrote: hello misc. i am using openbsd 3.7-release with pf and ftp-proxy. ftp-proxy is working fine so far, but i recognised, that it establishes a new connection for each file it transfers. Update ftp-proxy, there is a bug that makes

Re: pkg_create error

2005-09-21 Thread Marc Espie
On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 06:21:24AM +, Edy Purnomo wrote: Hi all, Recently, my OBSD 3.4 can not do any of port installation. Please advice. Update!!!

Re: pkg_create error

2005-09-22 Thread Marc Espie
On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 02:08:39AM +, Edy Purnomo wrote: argh! yes, it's true, i did update the ports by typing cvsup -g -L 2 cvs-supfile with conf: # Defaults that apply to all the collections *default host=cvsup.uk.openbsd.org *default base=/var

Re: Konqueror, Crypto and Https problems

2005-09-25 Thread Marc Espie
On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 09:48:31AM -0400, Chris wrote: Haha! I got it. I started poking around my libraries, and found libcrypto.so had perms of 600! Why it was that way, I do not know. Like I said, this is a pristine system -- I definitely did not do this myself. Also, why it didn't

Re: gphoto2/gtkam segmentation fault on i386-current

2005-09-26 Thread Marc Espie
On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 09:56:24AM +0200, Andreas Bihlmaier wrote: I have exactly the same issue on amd64 i386 since two weeks ago, gphoto2 worked like a charm before, now I have to set up a 3.7 machine only so I can get pictures from my camera :( Will it be fixed until 3.8 ? I

Re: No battery monitor in KDE as non-root user

2005-09-26 Thread Marc Espie
On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 04:01:43PM -0400, Chris wrote: Hello. I found another issue with KDE in OBSD. It was there in 3.6, and persisted in 3.7 when I upgraded. My battery monitor would show in the lower right hand corner in the kpanel (kicker) as root -- but not as another user. When

Re: No battery monitor in KDE as non-root user

2005-09-26 Thread Marc Espie
On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 06:14:06PM -0400, Chris wrote: In the entire /usr/lib/ directory, libcrypto was the only library with the mode of 600. In the /dev/ directory, apm was the only file with the mode 600. So, it is strange. I certainly didn't single these files out and change perms on

looking for reliable USB printer

2005-09-30 Thread Marc Espie
Just wanted to know what people currently use for an usb printer under OpenBSD. I'm looking for rather cheap hardware that's currently sold in europe as brand new, and guaranteed to work (through experience) by people...

Re: Is there chennel bonding for network cards

2005-10-01 Thread Marc Espie
On Sat, Oct 01, 2005 at 12:17:11PM +0200, Jens Teglhus Mxller wrote: Does open BSD support Trunking as Sun calls it, or Etherchannel as Cisco calls it. Or aggregating seperate Ethernet cards to increase bandwidth and provide rendundancy as I call it ? I have seen the queston asked on

Re: K3B - FreeBSD binaries

2005-10-01 Thread Marc Espie
On Sat, Oct 01, 2005 at 05:32:23PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi With the risk of making a complete fool of myself.. Is it possible to get K3B running on OpenBSD 3.7? I am running KDE as the desktop, I have tried to install K3B from source without succes. Make fails with

Re: K3B - FreeBSD binaries

2005-10-01 Thread Marc Espie
On Sat, Oct 01, 2005 at 06:41:31PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know of an alternative to K3B which will burn DVD's? dvd+rw-tools doesn't have any gui, but it does burn dvd. In fact, it's what k3b uses to burn dvd. It works (more or less) under OpenBSD, I've burnt quite a few

Re: Kprinter in KDE fails

2005-10-03 Thread Marc Espie
On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 02:29:55PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi At our office we are planning a migration from Ubuntu on some desktops to OpenBSD so far everything has been working well except printing in KDE. I have managed to get OpenBSD printing with CUPS from the packages, but

Re: making packages out of the portstree

2005-10-12 Thread Marc Espie
On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 05:04:56PM +0200, Marc Peters wrote: hi all, i wanted to install a package on an box, which i built out of the portstree via make package. everything goes fine and the package is available in /usr/ports/packages/i386/cdrom/ and ../ftp/. i copied the .tgz to the

Re: Compiling perl pkg_* to c

2005-10-17 Thread Marc Espie
On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 10:24:51AM +0200, Rickard Dahlstrand wrote: Hi, I'm working on a installation where I can't install perl and I need to be able to install packages using pkg_add, pkg_delete etc. There are two solutions to my problem: 1. If anyone have a c-based pkg_add or

Re: C++ exceptions with OpenBSD 3.6 on amd64

2005-10-21 Thread Marc Espie
On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 03:16:13PM -0300, Sebastian Cufre wrote: Well, the problem is that with OpenBSD 3.7 other thing doesn't work (php4-xslt makes apache crash when used), and OpenBSD 3.8 is no yet released officially. On 10/21/05, Peter Valchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a

Re: tar(1) problem with long file names.

2005-10-21 Thread Marc Espie
On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 02:07:16PM -0500, eric wrote: It seems that tar(1) is only able to archive filenames of 100 characters or less. However, ufs can handle (I've been testing using touch(1)) filenames up to 255 characters. I tried to modify the following in src/bin/pax/tar.h You can't do

Re: 3.8 japanese

2005-10-22 Thread Marc Espie
On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 07:20:23AM +0900, OS rider wrote: Hi all , i am a japanese , and i run openbsd3.8 (snapshot) on pentium4 1.5G . i have no stress using kde on this machine and i can use japanese in jvim . but i hava some defects . 1) i cannot use canna , so i use Wnn ( namely

Re: pkg_add can't install a package

2007-08-20 Thread Marc Espie
On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 04:42:33AM -0500, Will Maier wrote: On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 11:48:34AM +0300, Tomas wrote: I'm having some trouble installing clamav-0.90.3.tgz package. I'm using OpenBSD_4_1. My steps: 1. export PKG_PATH=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/4.1/packages/i386 2.

Re: pkg_add ambiguous description in FAQ 15 ?

2007-08-26 Thread Marc Espie
On Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 01:10:16PM +0800, Uwe Dippel wrote: Wanting to find out which packages needed an update, I referred to FAQ 15: Invoking pkg_add(1) with the -u flag and no package name will just examine all installed packages for updated versions. This results here in # pkg_add -u

Re: Get rid of leaf packages

2007-08-30 Thread Marc Espie
On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 10:33:22AM +0200, Karl Sjvdahl - dunceor wrote: On 8/30/07, Edd Barrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On 30/08/2007, Jona Joachim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can find it here: http://hcl-club.lu/svn/development/python/cutleaves This is useful! Why not write

Re: That whole Linux stealing our code thing

2007-09-01 Thread Marc Espie
On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 08:52:45AM -0400, David H. Lynch Jr. wrote: With respect to both you and Eban, I would disagree.. You're entitled to say stupid things. The law requires complying with the license not preserving it. The license is a part of the copyrighted work. It grants

Re: Centralized ports collection server

2007-09-04 Thread Marc Espie
On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 04:15:23AM +0200, Adriaan wrote: On 9/4/07, John Nietzsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear gentleman, i would like to set a single box in my network to keep syncronized to the ports collection infra structure. My ideia is to export the directory /usr/ports to all

Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

2007-09-14 Thread Marc Espie
On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 07:48:46AM -0500, Marco Peereboom wrote: I have to point out that I have been told on this list by a GPL fan that the dictionary definition of freedom isn't correct. He was so friendly to ask me who the hell I was to tell him what freedom means. Freedom for him did

ambiguous paragraph in your news

2007-09-14 Thread Marc Espie
On http://www.softwarefreedom.org/news/2007/jul/31/openhal/ you have: -- About OpenHAL OpenHAL is low-level interface software for Atheros 802.11 wireless cards. Previously, Linux-based systems needed a proprietary Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) plus a wrapper driver to

Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

2007-09-15 Thread Marc Espie
On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 12:33:02PM +0100, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 03:25:38PM -0700, J.C. Roberts wrote: I'd love to see how an user who gets a modified binary version has the freedom to modify it. Go ahead. Prove me that it doesn't allow some users to loose

Re: Statement by SFLC (was Re: Wasting our Freedom)

2007-09-16 Thread Marc Espie
On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 09:17:41AM -0400, Eben Moglen wrote: We will make no more public statements until the work is complete, and we will be neither hurried nor intimidated by people who shout at us instead of helping. http://www.softwarefreedom.org/news/2007/jul/31/openhal/ As I said in a

Re: Microsoft gets the Most Secure Operating Systems award

2007-09-20 Thread Marc Espie
On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 12:08:55AM +1000, The One wrote: If anyone can solve security, whether it is with Leopard or in the future, Apple definitely can. In my opinion, Apple performs 100% in the software field, and 90% in the hardware field, which is due to, as I explained in my previous

Re: Microsoft gets the Most Secure Operating Systems award

2007-09-20 Thread Marc Espie
On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 01:00:11AM +1000, The One wrote: Sorry but I am just disagreed with Theo saying that OS X is buggy and insecure. Whatever. BORED already. Go troll elsewhere.

Re: Does OpenBSD support Hebrew?

2007-09-23 Thread Marc Espie
We do not have full i18n support. The locale stuff in the base system is not finished (I know, I'm late...) Qt has its own locale system, so hebrew should work just fine in all Qt and KDE applications (including right-to-left text). Gnome and gtk also have some support. Vim supports more or

Re: how can I find xyz | xargs tar ... like gtar

2007-09-23 Thread Marc Espie
On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 08:53:13PM +0200, Didier Wiroth wrote: Using find ... | xargs tar ... does not work as expected, as it looks like xargs invokes the tar command multiple times. man xargs You probably want to override the limit with xargs -n. But actually, since tar is recursive, you

Re: OBSD's perspective on SELinux

2007-09-25 Thread Marc Espie
In all my experience, every single complex security policy I've seen has very serious issues. Complexity kills it. There's always a scenario somewhere that someone has forgotten about that breaks stuff. Heck, this even happens with access control systems like PAM. About every 3 months, we hear

Re: OBSD's perspective on SELinux

2007-09-25 Thread Marc Espie
Just for the fun of it, some people subscribe to misc@ from politically correct accounts. So, I got a bounce on my last email, because I was saying that complex security ACLs were fucked up by design. This email is probably going to get blocked too, which is all that they deserve. Fucking

Re: Xbox 360 controller at the -current

2007-10-06 Thread Marc Espie
On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 03:26:58PM +0200, Alexander Farber wrote: Hi, /bsd: ugen0 at uhub0 port 1 /bsd: ugen0: Microsoft product 0x028f, rev 2.00/1.05, addr 2 /bsd: ugen0 detached has anyone tried to use it? :-) (Yes I'd read the news about the old Xbox port, but this here is an Xbox 360

Re: Tackilng multiple versions of autoconf

2007-10-16 Thread Marc Espie
On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 11:50:52AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 11:52:27AM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2007/10/16 16:10, Amarendra Godbole wrote: A peculiar thing I noticed with many ports is they need different versions of autoconf installed (set

Re: Tackilng multiple versions of autoconf

2007-10-16 Thread Marc Espie
On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 07:45:24PM +0200, Landry Breuil wrote: Hi, To be more reasonable (i suppose most ports using autotools in tree won't change their build scheme before earth blows itself, maybe because of autotools), i'd like to add my tiny-little p.o.v to this discussion : When

Re: About Xen: maybe a reiterative question but ..

2007-10-24 Thread Marc Espie
Bottom-line is, the more complicated your setup gets, the more chances you get to fuck-up. All that stuff about extra permissions, extra layers. Each thingie you add you need to configure. And you won't be 100%, not all the time. So, Xen is just another opportunity to get fucked. Instead of

Re: CVS - Lock File

2005-05-03 Thread Marc Espie
To expand on my prior message, CVS is missing some useful features, but locks is definitely NOT one of them. The main feature I'm missing is the ability to manipulate patchsets as an independent object. I often have several independent changes spanning several files, and there's nothing in cvs

Re: undefined reference to __gxx_personality_sj0

2005-05-05 Thread Marc Espie
On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 10:41:52PM -0500, Benjamin A. Collins wrote: I just downloaded the OPENBSD_3_7_BASE sources and tried building the kernel and userland. Everything *seemed* to work fine, but after a reboot, the c++ compiler no longer seemed to support exceptions. Any suggestions as to

Re: beginner, intermediate, and advanced scripting

2005-05-15 Thread Marc Espie
On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 12:49:34AM -0400, Adam wrote: First of all, that's not a benefit. In most languages you can have optional arguments to functions, without forcing all functions to take only a single array of scalar variables. You know, maybe you should read perl documentation. In perl

Re: [slightly OT] Zaurus -- to buy or not to buy?

2005-05-31 Thread Marc Espie
On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 11:11:08PM +0200, Matthias Kilian wrote: - Keyboard: it's a little bit small (of course). What's your experience using it? The keyboard has got an amazing good feel considering its size. Of course, your mileage may vary, but I find it really nice.

Re: 3.5 packages ?

2005-06-03 Thread Marc Espie
On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 01:21:29PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm curious as to why there are 3.5 packages and such on the site. I thought only 2 versions were kept up at a time. I'm not complaining, just confused and curious. ~Donald They're not kept up to date.

Re: openbsd - opensource as free at all

2005-06-17 Thread Marc Espie
People really interested in FREE software do their homework, they read mailing-lists archives, and they refer to the project website, which has a BIG page explaining in details what this is all about. Goodbye, come back when you have relevant new questions.

Re: OT: Hardware keyloggers embedded in new keyboards?

2005-06-20 Thread Marc Espie
On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 12:07:13AM -0500, Dave Feustel wrote: On Sunday 19 June 2005 08:51 pm, Nick Holland wrote: Dave Feustel wrote: http://www.amecisco.com/faq_hardwarekeylogger.htm#Q1 This has nothing to do with OpenBSD. It isn't new. It isn't unique. In effect, you just

Re: OT: Hardware keyloggers embedded in new keyboards?

2005-06-20 Thread Marc Espie
On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 07:08:18AM -0500, Dave Feustel wrote: If one-time passwords capability is built into OpenBSD, where can I read about how to use them? RTFM comes to mind. apropos otp gives you valid pointers. After that, I think you're a big boy, you can figure it out yourself...

Re: Marc Espie Interview

2005-06-30 Thread Marc Espie
On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 02:08:15PM -0700, Brian wrote: I just read the interview at: http://mongers.org/openbsd/interview-espie-ports And one thing that jumped out at me was: The perl modules are there so that someone could write some cool tools directly. Now, I just started to learn

Re: Building READMEs

2005-07-05 Thread Marc Espie
On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 09:09:01AM +0200, viq wrote: How much of OpenBSD's infrastructure is needed for building ports' READMEs? I'd like to build them on another box that is running linux - any pointers on what i need to have, besides the ports tree itself? Because that by itself is not

Re: Ports - Installing in another subdirectory

2005-07-18 Thread Marc Espie
On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 07:56:11PM +0100, Jonas Melian wrote: For installing a port in another subdirectory, i'd used DESTDIR and DESTDIRNAME but both fails. I also tried with 'FAKE_FLAGS=${DESTDIRNAME}=/usr/test' and 'PREFIX=${DESTDIR}/usr/local' in /etc/mk.conf but nothing. sudo make

Re: Ports - Installing in another subdirectory

2005-07-18 Thread Marc Espie
On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 02:58:40PM +0100, Jonas Melian wrote: Marc Espie wrote: On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 07:56:11PM +0100, Jonas Melian wrote: For installing a port in another subdirectory, i'd used DESTDIR and DESTDIRNAME but both fails. I also tried with 'FAKE_FLAGS=${DESTDIRNAME

Re: The MD5-File at the Server... (Request for RMD160 and SHA1 Checksums)

2005-07-25 Thread Marc Espie
On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 01:38:01PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MD5 is brocken like rmd160 and sha1. But to make an attack vs. all the 3 algorithms seams to be impossible (for now..). And it's much harder to not change e.g. the file-size if you created a collision against all of the

Re: pkg_delete -q /var/db/pkg/*

2005-11-22 Thread Marc Espie
On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 07:38:00PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seemed like time to update and get the new ftp-proxy. During this I ran 'pkg_delete -q /var/db/pkg/*' while updating the sources. The OpenBSD build was okay, but ports are not building now. The command might have

FAQ: how to help for OpenBSD

2005-12-30 Thread Marc Espie
I frequently get private emails of people telling me they want to help with OpenBSD, with nothing more attached... So I figured it's time to explain how things work. Note that this is completely my point of view. I'll let other developers chime in, they may have some vastly differing

Re: Deletion of indirectly -installed packages (dependencies)

2006-01-05 Thread Marc Espie
On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 09:10:08AM -0600, Daniel A. Ramaley wrote: On Wednesday 04 January 2006 18:43, you wrote: I know it isn't simple, one must first have a way to say: hey, I'm a package who was added by a user, I wasn't added just to serve a package you deleted!!, and then check if the

Re: problems compiling helloworld.cpp on openbsd3.8

2006-01-10 Thread Marc Espie
On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 10:09:46AM -0600, Jeffrey R. Meyer wrote: Hello all, I have a recently built openBSD 3.8 machine and I wanted to be able to do some simple c++ programming on it. I wrote the following helloworld program: #include iostream using namespace std; int main() {

Re: errata 001_perl.patch

2006-01-13 Thread Marc Espie
On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 12:47:51AM +0059, Han Boetes wrote: Clint M. Sand wrote: On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 09:38:07PM +0100, Han Boetes wrote: I doubt you need perl at all on a box like that. You can also consider to simply remove all the perl on that system. The pkg_* tools are perl.

Re: for those following -current

2006-01-14 Thread Marc Espie
You are advised to wait for a little bit more. Current source exhibits a few issues that prevent, for instance, and XOrg build. This is getting solved, we'll let you know when things are a bit safer.

Re: Reverse package process

2006-01-14 Thread Marc Espie
On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 09:04:47PM -0500, Daniel Ouellet wrote: Men, Thanks! How could I have overlook that one! I deserved to be called the moron of the day big time! That was really easy too! Shame on me for this one! Thanks for the cue! Well, it's a fairly recent feature, and

Re: for those following -current

2006-01-14 Thread Marc Espie
On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 12:16:06PM +0100, Marc Espie wrote: You are advised to wait for a little bit more. Current source exhibits a few issues that prevent, for instance, and XOrg build. This is getting solved, we'll let you know when things are a bit safer. okay, this particular issue

Re: for those following -current

2006-01-14 Thread Marc Espie
On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 10:26:06AM -0500, Michael Steinfeld wrote: On 1/14/06, Marc Espie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 12:16:06PM +0100, Marc Espie wrote: You are advised to wait for a little bit more. Current source exhibits a few issues that prevent, for instance

Re: for those following -current

2006-01-14 Thread Marc Espie
On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 02:42:51PM -0500, Michael Steinfeld wrote: still wouldn't build for me. === games/canfield === games/canfield/canfield install -c -s -o root -g games -m 2555 canfield /usr/games/canfield install: /usr/games/canfield/canfield: Is a directory *** Error code 71

Re: for those following -current

2006-01-15 Thread Marc Espie
On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 09:36:50PM -0600, Joe Szedula wrote: I just tried: # cd /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/gcc # make -f Makefile.bsd-wrapper obj # make -f Makefile.bsd-wrapper depend # make -f Makefile.bsd-wrapper # make -f Makefile.bsd-wrapper install from

Re: Status of pkg_add -u?

2006-02-10 Thread Marc Espie
On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 01:18:58PM -0500, Will H. Backman wrote: How functional and safe is pkg_add -u at this point? it is safe. Functionality depends a lot on the reliability of your package feed, e.g., if you use a ftp server that is likely to not let you in part of the time, pkg_add -u will

Re: Microsoft gets the Most Secure Operating Systems award

2007-03-22 Thread Marc Espie
On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 03:28:29PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: Their challenge is that they need to provide choice so they have what they call reasonable defaults. No, they don't need to provide choice. At least not that many. They decide to do so. That's most of what's wrong with OS

Re: cannot install courier-pop package

2007-03-27 Thread Marc Espie
On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 09:30:33PM +, Peter Matulis wrote: Hi gang. I tried to install the courier-pop package on my 4.0 system and it complains: $ pkg_add -v courier-pop3-3.0.5p1.tgz Error while reading header at /usr/libdata/perl5/OpenBSD/Ustar.pm line 104. So it looks like that

Re: Binary kernel and base update

2007-04-10 Thread Marc Espie
On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 01:43:56AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all. I have noticed that the OpenBSD team puts a lot of emphasis on using binary packets rather than building from ports, which I think IMHO is good, but why is it that there is no binary kernel updates, rather than

Re: pkg_add -u says Not updating .libs-$pkg, remember to clean it

2007-04-24 Thread Marc Espie
On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 02:16:38PM +0200, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: while doing a 'pkg_add -ui -F update -F updatedepends' on a machine with the most recent snapshot I could get my hands on, I get the message Not updating .libs-ImageMagick-6.2.6.1, remember to clean it for a

Re: Unfamiliar (to me only) ports behavior

2007-05-10 Thread Marc Espie
On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 06:11:49AM -0300, John Nietzsche wrote: I am not playing with sudoers file! This just a bare install. $ ls -ld /usr/ports /usr/src drwxrwxr-x 46 root wheel 1024 May 10 03:21 /usr/ports drwxrwxr-x 18 root wsrc512 Mar 11 16:19 /usr/src Isn't it strange that

Re: pkg_add after manually installed stuff

2007-05-11 Thread Marc Espie
On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 05:29:14PM -0700, Darrin Chandler wrote: Lately, mostly with ruby/RoR stuff I've manually installed some things such as gems. Later, there were ports/packages for these things. Using pkg_add then fails because files already exists. I've looked at various -F options, but

Re: find -exec {} help

2007-06-04 Thread Marc Espie
On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 12:30:49AM -0700, Bryan Irvine wrote: On 6/4/07, David B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, I'm using 3.8, and I hate to bother, but I have spent two days on the net trying to find the answer to this problem. I am using 'find' to batch file a sed search and replace. Sed,

Re: find -exec {} help

2007-06-04 Thread Marc Espie
On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 02:25:00PM +0200, Hannah Schroeter wrote: Hello! On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 02:01:12PM +0200, Marc Espie wrote: [...] Don't use for loops with find results, they do not scale well. Also, beware of spaces in file. For this kind of thing, I generally use 'while read

Re: find -exec {} help

2007-06-04 Thread Marc Espie
On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 11:45:27PM +0200, Almir Karic wrote: I don't see any -i option documented in the sed manpage. -i on some seds (gsed, ssed, FBSD sed, maybe others) means ''in place'' edit, that feature can be reimplemented with ''sed '' file new_file; mv -g new_file file'' (it

Re: libexpat confusion

2007-06-12 Thread Marc Espie
We still haven't enabled expat in base/, because it's not audited enough yet... we `trust' it as an X11 library, but no-one has addressed the multiple security issues it may have. Yes, we do know expat is a problem... we finally removed it from ports/ because it makes no sense to build it once.

Re: troubles with pkg_add -u

2007-06-25 Thread Marc Espie
On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 11:36:24AM +0300, Paul Irofti wrote: Since the Hackathon every time I update to the latest snapshots and run a pkg_add -iuv I get fatal errors with random package updates. I usually have to remove by hand (pkg_delete fails) and reinstall the given package. The

Re: facts about OpenBSD

2008-01-11 Thread Marc Espie
On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 11:03:29PM +0200, Nikns Siankin wrote: # Secure By Default. OpenBSD uses broken WEP for securing WiFi networks. Has no WPA/WPA2 support. Where is your wpa code for OpenBSD ?

Re: 64 bit file I/O?

2008-01-11 Thread Marc Espie
On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 06:09:24PM -0700, Darrin Chandler wrote: On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 04:49:42PM -0800, Unix Fan wrote: Darrin Chandler wrote: Ted Unangst wrote: what bs are you using? Try to be more polite, please. He wasn't being rude, bs the block size option for the dd

Re: facts about OpenBSD

2008-01-11 Thread Marc Espie
On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 03:03:02PM +0200, Nikns Siankin wrote: On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 12:43:48PM +, Edd Barrett wrote: Hello, A lot of this is down to manpower or lack thereof. You can make it better if you put some effort in. Failing that, If it's so bad, then why don't you use

Re: MAXDSIZ limit 1G?

2008-01-13 Thread Marc Espie
On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 08:40:59AM -0800, Marcelo Schmidt wrote: The memory limit is the full amount e.g. ulimit -d unlimited, but the datasize (MAXDSIZ) is 1G. I also tried to recomle the 3.8 stable kernel with MAXDSIZ 1G. ulimit -d shows the new max but the processes run out of memory even

Re: k3b ...is it possible?

2008-01-18 Thread Marc Espie
I have the beginning of a port of k3b. There are just a lot of things in the realm of cd/dvd handling that need porting. It's not just a few patches, and it will work.

Re: k3b ...is it possible?

2008-01-18 Thread Marc Espie
On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 11:27:42AM -0700, Predrag Punosevac wrote: Marc Espie wrote: I have the beginning of a port of k3b. There are just a lot of things in the realm of cd/dvd handling that need porting. It's not just a few patches, and it will work. That is a great news! I am sure

Re: Archiving pkg's added by pkg_add -u

2008-01-26 Thread Marc Espie
On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 10:29:13AM +, Laurence Tratt wrote: As a possibly complimentary idea to PKG_CACHE, I wrote a simple script a while back which bulk downloads packages: http://tratt.net/laurie/computing/obsd/packagesbootstrap/ I use this to download packages onto a local

Public Show: _Solutions Linux_ in Paris

2008-01-28 Thread Marc Espie
and FreeBSD people by a *huge* margin this year. The following developers and friends have said they will attend (in no particular order): Wim Vandeputte Charles Longeau Gilles Chehade Alexandre Ratchov Antoine Jacoutot Landry Breuil (will be hiding in the GCU booth, most probably) Saad Kadhi Marc

Re: Public Show: _Solutions Linux_ in Paris

2008-01-28 Thread Marc Espie
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 04:43:17PM +0100, Marc Espie wrote: Wim Vandeputte Charles Longeau Gilles Chehade Alexandre Ratchov Antoine Jacoutot Landry Breuil (will be hiding in the GCU booth, most probably) Saad Kadhi Marc Espie And my editor (or my totoro ?) is playing games with me

Re: Where is NAN Defined?

2008-02-10 Thread Marc Espie
There's some newer stuff we don't have yet. Partly because of vax, since it's the only non-ieee platform we support. NAN is one of these issues, and not the only one. For now, just cater around the problem by reading carefully the code, and figuring out what you can put instead of NAN.

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-18 Thread Marc Espie
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 02:31:13PM +0100, Zbigniew Baniewski wrote: On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 01:07:06PM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: By this, I mean, developers *are* working on improving the features currently offered by OpenBSD. In general people work on things which they will find the

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-18 Thread Marc Espie
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 10:12:09AM -0500, David Higgs wrote: Does the -B option to pkg_add do exactly this? Or YOU could do the equivalent and tell ./configure to install to a different base directory. This doesn't need any funding either. Nope, -B is mostly for chroot and flashdist-like

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-18 Thread Marc Espie
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 03:10:12PM +0100, Zbigniew Baniewski wrote: I noticed, that default path, where software from binary pkg and ports gets unpacked, is /usr/local hierarchy - unfortunately, it's also the traditional default of every individual source *.tar.gz package - such way

Re: Not updating .libs-XXXXX, remember to clean it (huh?)

2008-02-20 Thread Marc Espie
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 01:07:25PM -0500, Juan Miscaro wrote: I am working with a recent snapshot installation (090208) and I have some questions regarding updating packages with pkg_add. ... 1. I am shown the following: Not updating .libs-curl-7.16.2, remember to clean it Not updating

Re: What is our ultimate goal??

2008-02-22 Thread Marc Espie
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 04:18:42PM +0100, Miod Vallat wrote: SO now do you want FireEngine? Or rather SMPng networking? Or would you like ReallyHyperFastZoomStreamCyberWoosh? Now that you've brought it up, I would really like a ReallyHyperFastZoomStreamCyberWoosh TCP stack. Just make sure

Re: pkg_add -u

2008-03-01 Thread Marc Espie
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 10:59:29PM +0100, fulvio ciriaco wrote: Hallo, I have some ports updated by me, e.g. emacs-22.1, sawfish-1.3.3 ... When trying pkg_add -ui Candidates for updating sawfish-1.3.3p0 - sawfish-1.3p9 Candidates for updating auctex-11.14p1 - auctex-11.14p1 ... auctex

Re: xenocara source

2008-03-01 Thread Marc Espie
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 05:19:00PM -0800, Marco S Hyman wrote: For the sake of new folks it may be wise to put a .cvsignore in our /usr/src tree to prevent unintended cosequences of using the (also suggested) prune switch on cvs (-P). -P will only remove EMPTY directories that cvs

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