I was slightly blown away when I noticed that Maxime
Henrion has imported csup into the 'contrib' section
of FreeBSD. I'm building the FreeBSD world now, so
I haven't actually tried using csup yet.
Maxime specifically mentions DragonFly in his README
file, so I'm assuming that some brainiac from
On Thu, 9 Mar 2006, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
See the csup import? thread in this month's users archive.
I tried building wip/csup and got a bunch of 'already defined'
and missing header errors.
I tried copying the /usr/src/contrib/csup directory from FBSD
which compiles and works perfectly on
Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote:
...we don't feel comfortable with a tcp stack in userland...
Could you explain in basic bonehead terms why not? I've long
been a fan of the microkernel which runs *everything* in
userland.
But (as my wife would quickly tell you) I'm an idiot :o)
Is your
Matthew Dillon wrote:
:Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote:
:
: ...we don't feel comfortable with a tcp stack in userland...
:
:Could you explain in basic bonehead terms why not? I've long
:been a fan of the microkernel which runs *everything* in
:userland.
[...]
In a traditional
Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
(I changed subject line in the attempt to get more interest :)
On Fri, 3 Mar 2006, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
set currdev=disk0s4a
unload
boot /kernel -s
Danke. This worked fine.
Strange. But it only works for me when I use the -s.
I have tried setting
On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 09:09:12AM -0800, walt wrote:
[...]
This causes problems when a pkgsrc library is linked without
the usual rpath (by accident, I assume) e.g. the cdparanoia
package I just built on DF.
cdparanoia is linked fine here
Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
[...]
I heard someone was considering working on merging in support needed from
DragonFly into bmake or visa versa.
On Sept 1 Max posted that he would look at merging bmake into
DF make, and that's the last thing he posted here.
Has anyone heard from Max since then? I
Jonathon McKitrick wrote:
[...]
Because trying to install xorg broke on finding the xorg-libs package it
needed.
That sentence doesn't seem to parse correctly. I just finished
upgrading most of the parts of xorg on my DF machine and all
went well, including the xorg-libraries. What breakage
On Thu, 22 Dec 2005, Chuck Tuffli wrote:
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 13:44:19 -0800
From: Chuck Tuffli [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Newsgroups: dragonfly.users
Subject: Re: trouble with jdk
On 12/22/05, Geert Hendrickx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...
wip/jdk14 became available for DragonFly recently.
Jonathan Fosburgh wrote:
On Friday 16 December 2005 08:10 pm, walt wrote:
[...]
I get an 'incorrect super block' when I try to mount the FBSD
partition from DragonFly.
Sure it's not UFS2? That's the same error (IIRC) that attempting to mount
UFS2
on DFly generates.
No, it turned out
Tomas wrote:
...I forced USB to 1.1 instead of 2.0...
I'm glad your problem is solved. Can you explain exactly
how you 'forced' it? I think this may help me fix a similar
problem on my wife's linux machine.
Thanks!
DragonFly is known for its messaging infrastructure, so this
seems like a good place to ask about D-BUS:
http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/dbus
D-BUS is strictly userland, AFAIK. I've suddenly started seeing
dbus processes running in the background on linux and NetBSD, so
developers in
On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all,
since now most parts of KDE and Gnome compile, please try it (esp. the
binary packages for easier reproducability) and report problems.
Locations of the packages can be found on the download page :-)
I notice your DragonFly patches for
On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all,
I just compiled a debug-disabled 1.3.7 preview kernel, and I wonder if the
userland has debug enabled...
I'll answer your question because I don't know the answer ;o) If my answer
is wrong I will *quickly* learn something valuable.
Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
p.s. You may want to consider reporting or discussing pkgsrc issues at
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Is that the same as [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
Please consider installing pkgsrc/pkgtools/pkgsurvey and running it.
Hi Jeremy,
I'm thinking it may be a bit early to ask DFly users because so many
pkgsrc packages won't build on DF yet. (Things are getting better,
of course, but not quite 'there' yet.) My collection
Chris Pressey wrote:
On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 13:25:40 -0700
walt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Bill Hacker wrote:
Bob Bagwill wrote:
How are people playing with different versions of DBSD on the same
system?
[...]
- partition and slice your media into many (preferably equal sized)
portions...
I
Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote:
[...]
Nevertheless they have been broken recently (about one year) and for MD5
for example single bits can be changed...
Okay, that's why I asked -- I didn't know that. But why take a year
to break a secure hash when you can use a buffer overrun to gain
I just got this item from SANS, and I still can't quite believe
what my eyes are seeing:
==
--Microsoft Bans Weak Crypto in New Code
(15 September 2005)
A new policy at Microsoft bans developers from using functions using the
DES, MD4, MD5 and in some
I'm trying to debug a problem that (I think) is due
to a compiler upgrade (actually on a linux machine).
A recompile of xorg-base resulted in a library with
multiple definitions of the symbol __i686.get_pc_thunk.bx
in the same file, i.e. each of 11 modules in the library
defines the same symbol
Erik P. Skaalerud wrote:
Matthew Dillon wrote:
I decided to try out the 'ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe' MB...
Those mainboards perform very well and are generally stable...
I recall that the linux people had lots of problems with the
early NForce chipsets -- because of the closed-source design,
Yiorgos Adamopoulos wrote:
Hello!
Where do you place in your $PATH /usr/pkg/{bin,sbin} ? First? Last?r
Do the pkg_* utils from pkgsrc interract safely with the ones from FreeBSD's
ports (which I assume are the ones in /usr/sbin/) ?
I tried for awhile to keep both ports and pkgsrc. I did it
While trying to help Geert Hendrickx get pkgsrc/jdk14 working
on DragonFly, I noticed the following problem:
pkgsrc/jdk depends on the pkgsrc/devel/nspr package (that's the
NetScape Portable Runtime library used by many mozilla/firefox-
related packages, including jdk14).
Matthew Dillon wrote:
A friend of mine swears by linux, but curses just about every filesystem
he tries (and curses UFS as well).
I'll have my wife call his wife -- they'll modify that behavior quickly!
There are two things I want for UFS: (1) Nearly instant reboots
Max Okumoto wrote:
Hmmm... so I guess I had better figure out the features that are missing
in our version of make to match the netbsd make. :-)
That would be wonderful -- I can't remember to type bmake instead of
make. Keep in mind that bmake has a bug:
For those of you who are using pkgsrc on the development
version of DragonFly, and are therefore rebuilding all
of your packages -- remember that bmake has a bug which
needs this patch:
http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/~joerg/pkgsrc/bmake.diff
Be sure to apply the patch before re-running
Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
p.s. I have over 2600 pkgsrc packages packaged for DragonFly.
That's wonderful news! I assume you mean binary packages?
Are you feeding the patches to pkgsrc as you go? I'm asking
because I'm now trying to patch xfce4-systemload-plugin, and
I won't waste my time if
Matthew Dillon wrote:
Due to the ABI changes, people using Preview or HEAD are going to have
to recompile everything... kernel, world, ports, etc.
Just finished the world/kernel upgrade -- and all the ports I've tried
(so far) seem to work just fine without rebuilding.
So, what
I've written a little C program named rlc which generates
random color strings like 'rgb:a5/b3/f1' which I can use
like this to start xterm:
xterm -bg `rlc` (gives a random-light-colored background)
This works great when I type the command from an xterm
window -- but it fails when I click on a
ejc wrote:
On 8/17/05, Michel Talon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have never used portage, but a lot of people are very happy with it.
But for sure i have encountered severe breakage in FreeBSD ports, so
i don't see any reason to despise the Gentoo work.
I run Gentoo at work and fight with
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