Re: preserving editor files

2010-09-17 Thread Charles Smith
- Original Message - From: Jean-FranC'ois SIMON Sent: 09/08/10 08:50 PM To: openbsd-misc Subject: preserving editor files Hi All, At start-up the OS stays several minutes on preserving editor files. Could you please inform me what to do about this what is the system

Re: major bump note in faq/current.html

2010-05-29 Thread Charles Smith
Can we ask in the future something similar at src/*/shlib_version major bumps? to avoid ``pkg_add -u'' complaining about bad major/minor I do the following: - check that my mirror is up to date ie ``ls'' to make sure all files belong to the same snap you mean: all

Re: major bump note in faq/current.html

2010-05-28 Thread Charles Smith
Thank you for the polite answers. On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Charles Smith chasm_...@gmx.com wrote: Can we ask in the future something similar at src/*/shlib_version major bumps? Can we ask in the present that you actually describe what problem you're trying to solve when you suggest

Re: major bump note in faq/current.html

2010-05-28 Thread Charles Smith
Or maybe just send a heads up mail to m...@.

Re: major bump note in faq/current.html

2010-05-28 Thread Charles Smith
Nowadays I'm using snapshots, but it can be current also, it is imo unimportant within aspect. Sometimes, seldom, I see on sources-changes@ major bumps. I mark the precise date, when the major bump happened. At the next upgrade i pay big attention that my base system must correspond with

Re: major bump note in faq/current.html

2010-05-28 Thread Charles Smith
- Original Message - From: Vadim Zhukov 2010/5/28 Charles Smith chasm_...@gmx.com: Or maybe just send a heads up mail to m...@. You do not need to bother about ABI changes if you're using -STABLE(thanks to developers). And if you're using -CURRENT, you'redefinitely advised

major bump note in faq/current.html

2010-05-27 Thread Charles Smith
Can we ask in the future something similar at src/*/shlib_version major bumps? Index: current.html === RCS file: /cvs/www/faq/current.html,v retrieving revision 1.221 diff -u -r1.221 current.html --- current.html 27 May 2010

minor bump is src/.../shlib_version

2009-10-27 Thread Charles Smith
Good afternoon! When there is a major bump in src/.../shlib_version files, snapshots sets must be correspond with snapshots packages. For example: src/lib/libkrb5/shlib_version src/gnu/lib/libiberty/shlib_version src/lib/libc/shlib_version src/lib/libm/shlib_version Maybe with minor bump too?

root.mail at Nov 1

2009-09-30 Thread Charles Smith
Index: src/etc/root/root.mail === RCS file: /cvs/src/etc/root/root.mail,v retrieving revision 1.87 diff -u -r1.87 root.mail --- src/etc/root/root.mail 24 Jun 2009 06:46:07 - 1.87 +++ src/etc/root/root.mail 30 Sep

Re: root.mail at Nov 1

2009-09-30 Thread Charles Smith
--- On Wed, 9/30/09, Miod Vallat m...@online.fr wrote: It's too late for this. Yes, I have realised this too after sending. Sorry for the noise.

vendor list (was: dmesg IBM x3650 OpenBSD 4.3 )

2008-10-13 Thread Charles Smith
to create a web section listing the reasonable and bastard vendors? I think it would be useful in two points: * helps to OpenBSD community to choose the right hardware * make good or bad publicity depending on real vendor's position Anyway it's only an idea. +1 I very like the idea.

Re: neomagic and the needs-update entries

2008-07-20 Thread Charles Smith
--- On Sat, 7/12/08, Charles Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Charles Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: neomagic and the needs-update entries To: misc@openbsd.org Date: Saturday, July 12, 2008, 6:09 PM Good afternoon! In xenocara/MODULES file a needs-update entry, eg by neomagic, can

neomagic and the needs-update entries

2008-07-12 Thread Charles Smith
Good afternoon! In xenocara/MODULES file a needs-update entry, eg by neomagic, can provoke errors, like PR pending/5836 [0]? The PR in short: On i386 ThinkPad 600X (NeoMagic 256ZX NM2360) doesn't work WindowMaker since 2008.04.10 (or before too, that was my first test after 4.3 RELEASE

yacc rebuild

2008-07-10 Thread Charles Smith
Good afternoon! So, before the next make build I must rebuild the yacc alone. I would like to know how can I rebuild yacc. I searched in old errata patches, Makefiles, bsd.*.mk files. In my previous logfile (2008.07.07/src_make_build) I see, that by yacc the make cleandir is used: rm -f yacc.cat1