On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 01:43:33PM +0200, Michael Neumann wrote: > * In FreeBSD there is a /etc/rc.d/ipw script, that load the firmware > into the driver (ipwcontrol -i ipw0 -f firmwarefile). IIRC, > FreeBSD 7.0 will even include the firmware file and add a sysctl like > "kern.license.ipw", which you have to set to agree the Intel license. > It's very annoying to install a system, if this firmware is not > shipped with the base system, as you need to get connected with a > cable to fetch this firmware!
I'm not sure if anyone wants to fight with Intel long enough to get the rights for redistribution. I certainly don't want to. > * Would it be possible to preset the PKG_PATH to for example > pkgsrc-box.org? This would make life much easier for beginners. I object such a change. Really, take the 5min to figure out which mirror is nearest / fastest for you and take that. > * After having added a lot of binary packages, I tried to install > another one from source. This required libxml-someversion, which > seemed to be already installed (by a binary package). Despite, it > stopped and told me that I either should remove the package > (pkg_delete) or that I should issue bmake replace. Oh, I did > "bmake replace", and this first removed a few packages (my window > manager and stuff like that!). *What* did it tell you? The biggest reason is typically that the binary package is outdated and a newer reason is required for whatever reason. I also question that it told you to run "make replace", which does something quite different. > * pkgsrc: If you install www/firefox from source, this will install > firefox 2.x. If you do "pkg_add firefox", this will install > firefox-15. It shouldn't. You might have hit a temporary bug in pkg_install though. > * What would be really cool, if pkgsrc could mix binary and packages > from source. So if I do "pkg_add thispackage", it tries to add all > packages it can find as binary, the others it will build from source. > The same if you do "bmake", given an option, it would first try to add > binaries for all the dependencies. DEPENDS_TARGET=bin-install Set BINPKG_SITES similiar to PKG_PATH first. > * Installing ipw-firmware, a message says to modify ACCEPTABLE_LICENSES > accordingly in /etc/mk.conf. I do it, but the same message occurs, > until I realize that there is /usr/pkg/etc/mk.conf that I have to > modify. Fixed. > * Uh, and if DragonFly would get pkgjam.org that would be great! I don't > know what the general opinion of pkgsrc developers about > pkgjam.org is... It is a nice idea and a nice testbed for those. I'm not sure it can really work. I'm not sure either how much of the discussion ended up in the video from pkgsrccon :-) Joerg
