Re: fdisk implementation

2008-12-17 Thread Matthew Dillon
A few possible gotchas regarding fdisk and disklabels. DragonFly has a 64 bit disklabel feature now (disklabel64), as well as gpt support, but lacks boot support for either. I think the fdisk utility needs to be separate from the disklabel utility. Also as HAMMER moves

Re: Console screen corruption?

2008-12-17 Thread walt
On Tue, 16 Dec 2008, walt wrote: ... sigh The kvm folks just committed a (relatively) huge update from the qemu folks, and I'm running it now. As of this particular moment, today's kvm seems to be behaving much better than yesterday's kvm. Great news. Yesterday's update from qemu

Re: My personal pkgsrc FAQ

2008-12-17 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 09:07:23AM +0100, Matthias Schmidt wrote: - IIRC it should be possible to build pkgsrc packages in parallel. Does that mode works well? If yes, we could distribute the builds between multiple machines to reduce the time needed to run a full build. And yes, a have

Re: Console screen corruption?

2008-12-17 Thread Sascha Wildner
walt schrieb: Great news. Yesterday's update from qemu definitely fixed the problem--even the dragonfly and freebsd installers are back to normal. Thanks much for your help. OK, all's well that ends well. Sascha -- http://yoyodyne.ath.cx

Re: My personal pkgsrc FAQ

2008-12-17 Thread Robert Luciani
Another thought I had for some time: Pkg_radd uses the http://pkgbox.dragonflybsd.org/All redirection if I remember correctly. Can't we have a version number in the /All redirection mechanism so that we can have different pkg_radd's (HEAD, release, etc.) use different sets of packages? We

Re: My personal pkgsrc FAQ

2008-12-17 Thread Justin C. Sherrill
On Wed, December 17, 2008 3:36 am, Sascha Wildner wrote: Please don't forget the LiveDVD which should be rebuildable by the user using the official set of packages without having to resort to home-rolled packages or packages from some non-standard location. To ensure this, we definitely need

Re: My personal pkgsrc FAQ

2008-12-17 Thread Justin C. Sherrill
On Wed, December 17, 2008 6:26 pm, Robert Luciani wrote: The second package set would be based on the current pkgsrc. I volunteer for this task and am willing to spend the time to get it working reliably and with updates in a timely fashion. The package set would need to be rebuilt _at

Re: My personal pkgsrc FAQ

2008-12-17 Thread Robert Luciani
Justin C. Sherrill wrote: On Wed, December 17, 2008 6:26 pm, Robert Luciani wrote: The second package set would be based on the current pkgsrc. I volunteer for this task and am willing to spend the time to get it working reliably and with updates in a timely fashion. The package set would