How can I help with pkgsrc? FAQ

2009-08-31 Thread Hasso Tepper
Q: Pkgsrc sucks! A: Yes, I know. Q: But shouldn't we look at alternatives then? A: There is really none. We just can't take random packaing management system and modify to our needs. We don't have resources for that. Really, believe me. Btw, one of best ways to piss me off is to start

Qemu in the pkgsrc

2009-08-31 Thread Hasso Tepper
I updated qemu in the pkgsrc to the 0.10.6 version and have all the patches floating around relevant to DragonFly. There are also patches which make bsd user emulation build, but it doesn't really work: $ /usr/pkg/bin/qemu-sparc64 bash: /usr/pkg/bin/qemu-sparc64: cannot execute binary file $

Fedora developer interested in DMA; query about build process

2009-08-31 Thread Michel Alexandre Salim
Hello, I saw DMA mentioned recently at the DfBSD Digest, and it just so happened that there was a recent discussion in fedora-devel about removing sendmail from the base install. An overriding concern was that it would break reporting by tools like cron, even though most desktop users will not