Re: Suggestion for hammer cleanup

2010-10-20 Thread Matthew Dillon
I think a hammerd is a good idea or more likely a 'hammer cleanup' with a deamon-mode option that leaves it running in the background, but operating on the disk very lightly (as in very, VERY lightly) until the time schedule tells it that it really has to run harder.

Re: sound no longer works for some programs

2010-10-20 Thread Chris Turner
Pierre Abbat wrote: I'm installing it with pkgin, and I get this message: NOTE: Unfortunately, JACK wants to use a linux /proc filesystem... It's a DFly binary; does it know to look in the emulated /proc? ha - I think I didn't see this because I just built everything in /usr/pkgsrc/audio to

Re: sound no longer works for some programs

2010-10-20 Thread Chris Turner
Pierre Abbat wrote: It's a DFly binary; does it know to look in the emulated /proc? to directly answer your question - no idea! but its doing something! :) - Chris

Re: sound no longer works for some programs

2010-10-20 Thread Chris Turner
Chris Turner wrote: There's some interesting stuff going on in OpenBSD w/r/t midi - Based on a check of the NetBSD manual (and not the source) - it appears that NetBSD has grown a divergent (w/r/t OpenBSD) midi(4) as well..

Re: sound no longer works for some programs

2010-10-20 Thread Tomas Bodzar
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 11:52 PM, Chris Turner c.tur...@199technologies.org wrote: Pierre Abbat wrote: What's jackd? Jack is a sound server / time transport sync patching setup designed mainly for audio production / music / etc - originally designed for linux but has since been made

Re: OpenOffice is not available from pkgsrc for dragonfly and binary package errors

2010-10-20 Thread Siju George
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 6:20 PM, Matthias Schmidt matth...@dragonflybsd.org wrote: Hi, * Siju George wrote: The openoffice3-bin to be used with Linux emulation pkg installs fine but starting up it shows this problem. Could some one give cilues on solving this problem? I have OpenOffice

Re: sound no longer works for some programs

2010-10-20 Thread Venkatesh Srinivas
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 4:08 AM, Tomas Bodzar tomas.bod...@gmail.comwrote: On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 11:52 PM, Chris Turner c.tur...@199technologies.org wrote: Pierre Abbat wrote: It's not only about that. There is a LOT of improvements in audio on OpenBSD

No package installation method works

2010-10-20 Thread Torbjorn Granlund
A long term *BSD user, I decided to extend our GNU package nightly test system setup with Dragonfly BSD. This is an install under virtualisation (qemu or Xen). The actual install went smoothly, but the package install have failed utterly. I found

Re: No package installation method works

2010-10-20 Thread Matthew Dillon
Our pkgsrc mirror has gone through a ton of changes in the last month or so. The git repo is now called pkgsrcv2.git, and the original pkgsrc.git has been removed. It had to be renamed because the new repo uses a different mirroring mechanic and so is not compatible with the

Re: No package installation method works

2010-10-20 Thread Alex Hornung
On 20/10/10 20:54, Torbjorn Granlund wrote: Method 3 (from docs/handbook/handbook-pkgsrc-sourcetree-using/): # cd /usr # cvs -d anon...@anoncvs.us.netbsd.org:/cvsroot co pkgsrc # cd shells/bash # make Use bmake for this as outlined in

Re: No package installation method works

2010-10-20 Thread Sascha Wildner
On 10/20/2010 21:54, Torbjorn Granlund wrote: A long term *BSD user, I decided to extend our GNU package nightly test system setup with Dragonfly BSD. This is an install under virtualisation (qemu or Xen). The actual install went smoothly, but the package install have failed utterly. I found

Re: No package installation method works

2010-10-20 Thread Daniel Horecki
Je Wed, 20 Oct 2010 22:13:01 +0200 Sascha Wildner s...@online.de scribis: On 10/20/2010 21:54, Torbjorn Granlund wrote: A long term *BSD user, I decided to extend our GNU package nightly test system setup with Dragonfly BSD. This is an install under virtualisation (qemu or Xen). The

Re: No package installation method works

2010-10-20 Thread Justin C. Sherrill
On Wed, October 20, 2010 3:54 pm, Torbjorn Granlund wrote: A long term *BSD user, I decided to extend our GNU package nightly test system setup with Dragonfly BSD. This is an install under virtualisation (qemu or Xen). The actual install went smoothly, but the package install have failed

hammering the drive

2010-10-20 Thread Pierre Abbat
I clicked on the tabs of a Firefox window I have up, and it responded very slowly. I ran top, which shows a low load average, but hammer is running. I can hear the disk rattling. How much does the nightly hammer run wear out a drive? Pierre -- La sal en el mar es más que en la sangre. Le sel