Re: Port: astro/sunclock: Malaysia is in the wrong time zone

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Sun, 21 Mar 2021 11:19:41 -0600
"@lbutlr"  wrote:

> 

yes, this map shows how I recall the time zones of these countries.

Sunclock's map has Malaysia coloured like Thailand and the Jawa.

So, as long as nobody knows how to edit the map, it will stay like this
then.

Erich
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Re: Port: astro/sunclock: Malaysia is in the wrong time zone

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Sun, 21 Mar 2021 17:03:30 +1100
raf  wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 21, 2021 at 11:31:34AM +0800, Erich Dollansky
>  wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I just noticed that Malaysia is in the same time zone as Jawa
> > (Indonesia) and Thailand.  Wikipedia says for Malaysia UTC+8 and for
> > Jawa and Thailand UTC + 7. 
> > 
> > Is there no maintainer for this port as this list is listed as
> > maintainer.
> > 
> > Erich  
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I don't know anything about the sunclock port on
> FreeBSD, but I have been using it on Linux and macOS
> for decades, so I thought I pipe up.
> 
> Part of Malaysia (the part containing Kuala Lumpur) is
> directly South of Thailand, so it wouldn't be
> surprising if that part had the same timezone as

Malaysia is in the wrong time zone just as Singapore.

> Thailand. Perhaps the other part (around Brunei) has a
> different time zone, and Wikipedia is referring to that
> part? If so, maybe Wikipedia is incomplete?
> 
Wikipedia matches my experience.

> I must admit, I don't know where to see timezone
> information in sunclock. I can click on places, and it
> shows the solar time, which makes sense, and the solar
> time between the two parts of Malaysia are about an
> hour apart.
> 
> Ah, it's in the Sunclockrc file. But it only seems to
> store timezones for cities, not countries, and I think
> the only Malaysian city it has is Kuala Lumpur.

Yes, and the information given for Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur and Jakarta
are correct.

> 
> It contains these lines (for part of Malaysia and
> Thailand):
> 
>   addcity 2|KualaLumpur|3.133|101.700|PST-8
>   addcity 2|Bangkok|13.833|100.483|TST-7
> 
> You'd think that they'd have their own timezone
> abbreviations, and not have to borrow abbreviations
> from other countries so many timezones away. I don't
> even know what TST is supposed to mean.

The time zone abbreviations are also unknown to me.
> 
> I wonder if it will accept "Asia/Kuala_Lumpur" instead
> of "PST-8".
> 
> But when I click on Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur, these
> timezones in the Sunclockrc file don't seem to matter.
> It still shows the solar time (they are about 5 minutes
> apart).
> 
> I can't see that there's anything actually wrong with
> the way it's behaving.
> 
> How are you seeing these timezones in sunclock for
> different countries?

I display the map of the globe. Each time zone gets a colour. The
colours repeat with distance but direct neighbours have always
different colours.
> 
> The manpage says that the timezone needs to be the name
> of a file under /usr/share/zoneinfo (or whatever
> directory is used on your system). So it should accept
> "Asia/Kuala_Lumpur" instead of "PST-8".
> 
> Can you see if that works? If so, I'd be willing to do
> an audit and update all of the timezones in Sunclockrc
> to use the modern, geographic names for timezones. It
> would take a while, though.
> 
We first would have to get an idea of where to look. When showing the
map, Malaysia should share the colour with China. But it shares its
colour with Thailand an the western part of Indonesia.

Erich


> cheers,
> raf
> 
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Re: Port: astro/sunclock: Malaysia is in the wrong time zone

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

it looks to me that the solution is here:

/usr/local/share/sunclock/earthmaps/vmf

There should be somewhere an editor for files like them. It could be
this:

https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Valve_Map_Format

Erich
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Port: astro/sunclock: Malaysia is in the wrong time zone

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

I just noticed that Malaysia is in the same time zone as Jawa
(Indonesia) and Thailand.  Wikipedia says for Malaysia UTC+8 and for
Jawa and Thailand UTC + 7. 

Is there no maintainer for this port as this list is listed as
maintainer.

Erich
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Re: Installing packaged firefox wants to install tesseract

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Fri, 11 Oct 2019 09:08:27 +0200
Andrea Venturoli  wrote:

> On 2019-10-11 08:10, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I just was wondering what this game has to do with the browser:
> > 
> > pkg install firefox says:
> > 
> > New packages to be INSTALLED:
> >  firefox: 69.0.2_1,1
> >  kf5-kholidays: 5.62.0
> >  opencv: 3.4.1_24
> >  tesseract: 4.1.0_3
> >  tesseract-data: 4.0.0
> >  aom: 1.0.0.2474
> > 
> > Is this game really required to run a browser?  
> 
> I don't have this, but I build my packages...
> 
> In any case, I think you are misunderstanding
> games/tesseract for graphics/tesseract.
> 
thanks!

Whereis told me only about the games.

Erich
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Installing packaged firefox wants to install tesseract

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

I just was wondering what this game has to do with the browser:

pkg install firefox says:

New packages to be INSTALLED:
firefox: 69.0.2_1,1
kf5-kholidays: 5.62.0
opencv: 3.4.1_24
tesseract: 4.1.0_3
tesseract-data: 4.0.0
aom: 1.0.0.2474

Is this game really required to run a browser?

Erich
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Re: inkscape core dumps at start

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Tue, 9 Oct 2018 14:57:55 +0200
Walter Schwarzenfeld  wrote:

> seems the same as in this PR
> 
> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=232073
> 
yes, it is. So, we are now already two having the same problem.

Erich
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inkscape core dumps at start

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

I tried to upgrade inkscape to version 0,92.3 first via ports
and then via a package. Both results in a core dump after
inkscape says it encountered an internal error. The following
is just the start of a longer list of error messages at the
console.

Does anybody have an idea what happened?

Erich

PS the port tree's revesion is: 481513

The messages:

Fontconfig error: "/usr/local/etc/fonts/fonts.conf", line 110:
invalid attribute 'name' Fontconfig error:
"/usr/local/etc/fonts/fonts.conf", line 118: invalid attribute 'name'
Fontconfig error: "/usr/local/etc/fonts/fonts.conf", line 127: invalid
attribute 'name' Fontconfig error: "/usr/local/etc/fonts/fonts.conf",
line 136: invalid attribute 'name' Fontconfig error: Cannot load config
file from /usr/local/etc/fonts/fonts.conf

Emergency save activated!
Emergency save completed. Inkscape will close now.
If you can reproduce this crash, please file a bug at www.inkscape.org
with a detailed description of the steps leading to the crash, so we
can fix it.

(inkscape:36036): Gtk-WARNING **: 08:09:50.505: ChannelsAction: missing
action ChannelsAction

(inkscape:36036): Gtk-WARNING **: 08:09:50.505: ThresholdAction:
missing action ThresholdAction

(inkscape:36036): Gtk-WARNING **: 08:09:50.505: OffsetAction: missing
action OffsetAction

(inkscape:36036): Gtk-WARNING **: 08:09:50.505: PaintbucketUnitsAction:
missing action PaintbucketUnitsAction

(inkscape:36036): Gtk-WARNING **: 08:09:50.505: AutoGapAction: missing
action AutoGapAction

(inkscape:36036): Gtk-WARNING **: 08:09:50.505: PaintbucketResetAction:
missing action PaintbucketResetAction

(inkscape:36036): Gtk-WARNING **: 08:09:50.541: TextFontStyleAction:
missing action TextFontStyleAction

(inkscape:36036): Gtk-WARNING **: 08:09:50.541: TextOuterStyleAction:
missing action TextOuterStyleActio
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sunclock time zones

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

sunclock puts Jawa (Indonesia) into the same time zone as Malaysia. Fact
is that Jawa is in the same time zone as Thailand. Bali (Indonesia) is
in the same time zone as Malaysia.

Erich
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Re: Blackbox does not compile, diff in here

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Thu, 9 Aug 2018 14:34:17 +1000
Kubilay Kocak  wrote:

> On 9/08/2018 12:29 pm, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> > 
> > I do not know if somebody spotted this already. Some casting was
> > done to the wrong types.  
> 
> This looks like
> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=226708
> 
yes, it is the same. But why could I compile blackbox without a problem
up to one or two months ago? Did the compiler to comprehend the problem
before?

Erich


> The first and third chunks below appear to be
> noise/spurious/unnecessary though.
> 
> > Erich
> > 
> > PS I am not experienced in creating diffs for ports. This one was
> > done in the working directory's lib entry: 
> > 
> > 
> > --- EWMH.cc.180809  2005-01-24
> > 15:50:56.0 +0800 +++ EWMH.cc 2018-08-09
> > 10:10:05.630203000 +0800 @@ -204,7 +204,7 @@
> >  bool bt::EWMH::readNumberOfDesktops(Window target,
> >   unsigned int* number) const {
> >unsigned char* data = 0;
> > -  if (getProperty(target, XA_CARDINAL, net_number_of_desktops,
> > &data)) {
> > +  if (getProperty (target, XA_CARDINAL, net_number_of_desktops,
> > &data)) { *number =
> >static_cast(*(reinterpret_cast > *>(data)));   
> > @@ -246,8 +246,11 @@
> >  
> >  
> >  void bt::EWMH::setDesktopViewport(Window target, int x, int y)
> > const {
> > +   //
> > +   // 09.08.18 ed: the following statement was modified.
> > +   //
> >const unsigned long viewport[] =
> > -{ static_cast(x), static_cast(y) };
> > +{ static_cast(x), static_cast > long>(y) }; setProperty(target, XA_CARDINAL, net_desktop_viewport,
> >reinterpret_cast(viewport),
> > 2); }
> > @@ -644,8 +647,10 @@
> >  }
> >  
> >  
> > -bool bt::EWMH::getProperty(Window target, Atom type, Atom property,
> > -unsigned char** data) const {
> > +bool bt::EWMH::getProperty (Window target, Atom type, Atom
> > property,
> > +unsigned char  ** data)
> > const { Atom atom_return;
> >int size;
> >unsigned long nitems, bytes_left;
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Blackbox does not compile, diff in here

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

I do not know if somebody spotted this already. Some casting was done
to the wrong types.

Erich

PS I am not experienced in creating diffs for ports. This one was done
in the working directory's lib entry: 


--- EWMH.cc.180809  2005-01-24
15:50:56.0 +0800 +++ EWMH.cc 2018-08-09 10:10:05.630203000
+0800 @@ -204,7 +204,7 @@
 bool bt::EWMH::readNumberOfDesktops(Window target,
  unsigned int* number) const {
   unsigned char* data = 0;
-  if (getProperty(target, XA_CARDINAL, net_number_of_desktops, &data))
{
+  if (getProperty (target, XA_CARDINAL, net_number_of_desktops,
&data)) { *number =
   static_cast(*(reinterpret_cast(data))); 
@@ -246,8 +246,11 @@
 
 
 void bt::EWMH::setDesktopViewport(Window target, int x, int y) const {
+   //
+   // 09.08.18 ed: the following statement was modified.
+   //
   const unsigned long viewport[] =
-{ static_cast(x), static_cast(y) };
+{ static_cast(x), static_cast(y) };
   setProperty(target, XA_CARDINAL, net_desktop_viewport,
   reinterpret_cast(viewport), 2);
 }
@@ -644,8 +647,10 @@
 }
 
 
-bool bt::EWMH::getProperty(Window target, Atom type, Atom property,
-unsigned char** data) const {
+bool bt::EWMH::getProperty (Window target,
+
Atom   type,
+
Atom   property,
+unsigned char  ** data) const {
   Atom atom_return;
   int size;
   unsigned long nitems, bytes_left;
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Re: Cannot mix incompatible Qt library (version 0x50904) with this library (version 0x50a01),Abort (core dumped)

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Thu, 31 May 2018 15:37:46 +0100
tech-lists  wrote:

> Hello lists,
> 
> context: 11.2-PRERELEASE #0 r333458 / ports r471194
> 
> with xpdf I get the following error:
> 
> Cannot mix incompatible Qt library (version 0x50904) with this
> library (version 0x50a01),Abort (core dumped)
> 
> I seem to have both qt4-4.8.7 and qt5-5.10.1 installed. I didn't
> install these directly though, seems they've been installed as
> dependencies of other ports. I'm using MATE desktop.
> 
> I've tried reinstalling xfdf via pkg and the port with the same
> result. Is this a known problem/how can I fix? Have found no fix yet
> from GIS, most seem to point to deleting and reinstalling everything.
> 
> thanks,

portupgrade from the ports tree will be your good friend. It will
either fix all problems or at least list the problematic ports.

There are some other applications in the tree which do the same. So,
you are spoiled for choice to get this problem fixed.

Erich
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Re: mousepad memory leak

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Sun, 11 Mar 2018 18:46:09 +0100
Guido Falsi  wrote:

> On 03/11/18 07:54, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > it took a bit longer before I could test this on the very same
> > machine where I found the problem. I updated first FreeBSD and then
> > the ports. Yes, the problem is gone. I will go off-line now with
> > this machine again and do some work there. It should not be that
> > much but it will be with the same set of programs. So, a real-life
> > test. If you hear nothing from me anymore, the problem is gone.  
> 
> I'm happy it works.
> 
> > 
> > I just noticed your e-mail address. Is this still compatible with
> > the new CoC?
> >   
> 
> I received no complains.
> 

I do not even know if I can mention here anymore my place of residence
for 30 years. I consider myself still lucky as my neighbours are worse
of here.

Erich
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Re: mousepad memory leak

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

it took a bit longer before I could test this on the very same machine
where I found the problem. I updated first FreeBSD and then the
ports. Yes, the problem is gone. I will go off-line now with this
machine again and do some work there. It should not be that much but it
will be with the same set of programs. So, a real-life test. If you hear
nothing from me anymore, the problem is gone.

I just noticed your e-mail address. Is this still compatible with the
new CoC?

Erich

 On Mon, 22 Jan 2018
21:18:28 +0100 Guido Falsi  wrote:

> On 01/22/2018 08:36, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> 
> > Irony is that I used mousepad the first time for this thinking that
> > it is small, the machine is limited, should still work.
> >   
> 
> I just committed r459693 which adds commits from the upstream
> repository as patches which address this issue. I have been unable to
> cause the pathological behaviour with these patches, so they work, at
> least to some extent.
> 
> Please test after upgrading your ports or packages(whatever you use)
> and report back.
> 

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Re: mousepad memory leak

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Mon, 22 Jan 2018 21:18:28 +0100
Guido Falsi  wrote:

> On 01/22/2018 08:36, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> 
> > Irony is that I used mousepad the first time for this thinking that
> > it is small, the machine is limited, should still work.
> >   
> 
> I just committed r459693 which adds commits from the upstream
> repository as patches which address this issue. I have been unable to
> cause the pathological behaviour with these patches, so they work, at
> least to some extent.

perfect. That was real fast.
> 
> Please test after upgrading your ports or packages(whatever you use)
> and report back.
> 
The affected machine a offline for at least 2 more weeks. I will do
this the moment the machine goes online again.

Erich
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Re: mousepad memory leak

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Sun, 21 Jan 2018 16:03:49 +0100
Guido Falsi  wrote:

> On 01/21/2018 01:44, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> 
> Setting up  quick jail with some linux distribution is really a fast
> thing.

not really when you are a 'bit' remote. The knowledge about Linux is
very limited too. I do larger downloads only when I am back to
civilisation.

> I also noticed that when mousepad was working and allocating memory
> also the "dconf-service" process consuming a lot of CPU. I think it's
> the communication with this demon which actually has some problems.
> 
Yes, it might be the combination of them causing the problem.

> Just to know why do you need so many windows, when tabs are available?

I open one drawing together with its textual description on one
desktop. It is just the workflow.

> Since it looks like a fundamental bug in mousepad cannot you use some
> other editor?

Irony is that I used mousepad the first time for this thinking that it
is small, the machine is limited, should still work.

Erich
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Re: mousepad memory leak

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Sun, 21 Jan 2018 16:03:49 +0100
Guido Falsi  wrote:

> On 01/21/2018 01:44, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> 
> 
> https://bugzilla.xfce.org/

here we are:

https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14184

Erich
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Re: mousepad memory leak

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Fri, 19 Jan 2018 10:46:41 +0100
Guido Falsi  wrote:

> On 01/19/2018 08:41, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > when I open more than nine or ten mousepads in parallel, I can still
> > use one or two of the open windows but the other mousepad windows
> > start to allocate memory until it is exhausted.  
> 
> It's not easy to diagnose such a problem for people not knowing the
> details of mousepad sources and the libraries it uses.

I know, it looks so easy but it needs a very good knowledge of what is
going on inside.
> 
> The people who are most able to help you are the XFCE guys (mousepad
> being part of the xfce desktop). Is this issue FreeBSD specific? If
> not you should definitely report this to the upstream developers.
> 
We are a FreeBSD-only shop.

> I'll make a pair of tests in virtual machines to see what happens.
> 
> Can you confirm simple steps to reproduce as follows:
> 
> - Open 2 mousepad windows and open documents in them

No, you have to open only one document in one windows. On a machine
with only 4GB or RAM, it happens around 10 windows with 10 documents.
The documents are small. Not more than 4KB, plain text, no 

> - do some work in one or both

Do nothing but continue to open new windows and then open a single
document in them. I change also workspace between.

> - wait, the leak happens in idle windows

It just happens when the next window is opened. The text never appears
and the text in most other windows disappears. The windows with text
still visible in them are fully usable. I did not notice any limitations
in them.

When I tried the same thing on a machine with 8GB RAM, nothing
happened. It might will happen too when much more windows are opened.

Most important, on the machine with only 4GB, I can reproduce it 100%.

Erich
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mousepad memory leak

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

when I open more than nine or ten mousepads in parallel, I can still
use one or two of the open windows but the other mousepad windows start
to allocate memory until it is exhausted.

I am using FreeBSD 10.4 with mousepad 0.4.0 running under blackbox. It
is easy to reproduce by opening one mousepad window with one document
contained in one.

I am using mousepad on an older machine with only 4GB of RAM. On a
machine with more RAM, top looks like this after 12 mousepads have
been opened:

Swap: 16G Total, 1666M Used, 14G Free, 10% Inuse, 12K In

  PID JID USERNAMETHR PRI NICE   SIZERES STATE   C
TIMEWCPU COMMAND 

25003   0 erich 5  200   645M
425M kqread  2   5:53 100.39% mousepad 

11076   0 erich 3
220 46132K  3916K select  1   2:57 49.17% dconf-service

It is only one mousepad process eating up all the memory. It seems to
me random which of the mousepad processes can be used but this one
works normal while other do not react to any event. It stays then like
this until mousepad took all the swap space and RAM. It is not possible
to kill mousepad from blackbox but it is possible to kill mousepad from
top.

I know, it is a minor issue.

Erich
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Re: impossible to compile firefox when WRKDIRPREFIX is used

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Sun, 10 Apr 2016 05:55:30 +0200
Jan Beich  wrote:

> Erich Dollansky  writes:
> 
> >> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=206980  
> [...]
> > Before I have been able to built firefox without WRKDIRPREFIX in the
> > same shell. The same error happens in a fresh shell. If it matters,
> > I believe that 37 was the last version I could built with
> > WRKDIRPREFIX.  
> 
> Did you actually read that bug? It builds fine with WRKDIRPREFIX

I stumbled over this:

PACKAGES=/home/david/portbuildpkg

> defined or pkg-fallout@ would complain as poudriere relies on
> WRKDIRPREFIX working correctly. So, the issue is only with symlinks
> and the most egregious example is a historic quirk FreeBSD cannot get
> rid of. ;\
> 
> I may need to file a bug upstream but it's a low priority because why
> one would want a symlink for MOZ_OBJDIR if they can override it via
> environment.

Why did it work earlier?

Erich
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Re: impossible to compile firefox when WRKDIRPREFIX is used

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Sat, 09 Apr 2016 21:14:06 +0200
Jan Beich  wrote:

> Erich Dollansky  writes:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I use WRKDIRPREFIX as a standard outside of jails. I could not
> > compile there firefox since some time. I started to investigate
> > today with a ports tree from last Sunday/Monday and still have had
> > this problem.
> >
> > After removing WRKDIRPREFIX, it all worked as expected.  
> 
> Does it look like the following issue?
> 
> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=206980

no, ah, I forgot to a the output.

...

checking for pixman-1 >= 0.19.2... yes
checking MOZ_PIXMAN_CFLAGS... -I/usr/local/include/pixman-1  
checking MOZ_PIXMAN_LIBS... -L/usr/local/lib -lpixman-1  
checking for stdint.h... (cached) yes
checking for inttypes.h... (cached) yes
checking for posix_fadvise... (cached) yes
checking for posix_fallocate... (cached) yes
checking for icu-i18n >= 50.1... yes
checking MOZ_ICU_CFLAGS... -I/usr/local/include  
checking MOZ_ICU_LIBS... -licui18n -L/usr/local/lib -licuuc -licudata  
creating ./config.status


Reticulating splines...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./config.status", line 1075, in 
config_status(**args)
  File
"/usr/home/PORTS/work/usr/ports/www/firefox/work/firefox-45.0.1/python/mozbuild/mozbuild/config_status.py",
line 175, in config_status definitions = list(definitions) File
"/usr/home/PORTS/work/usr/ports/www/firefox/work/firefox-45.0.1/python/mozbuild/mozbuild/frontend/emitter.py",
line 165, in emit for out in output: File
"/usr/home/PORTS/work/usr/ports/www/firefox/work/firefox-45.0.1/python/mozbuild/mozbuild/frontend/reader.py",
line 1062, in read_mozbuild raise bre
mozbuild.frontend.reader.BuildReaderError:
== ERROR PROCESSING MOZBUILD FILE
==

The error occurred while processing the following file:


/usr/home/Depot/PORTS/work/usr/ports/www/firefox/work/firefox-45.0.1/moz.build

The underlying problem is an illegal file access. This is likely due to
trying to access a file outside of the top source directory.

The path whose access was denied is:


/usr/home/Depot/PORTS/work/usr/ports/www/firefox/work/firefox-45.0.1/js/src/moz.build

Modify the script to not access this file and try again.

*** Fix above errors and then restart with\
   "gmake -f client.mk build"
/usr/home/Depot/PORTS/work/usr/ports/www/firefox/work/firefox-45.0.1/client.mk:359:
recipe for target 'configure' failed gmake[4]: *** [configure] Error 1
gmake[4]: Leaving directory
'/usr/home/Depot/PORTS/work/usr/ports/www/firefox/work/firefox-45.0.1' 
/usr/home/Depot/PORTS/work/usr/ports/www/firefox/work/firefox-45.0.1/client.mk:373:
recipe for target
'/usr/home/PORTS/work/usr/ports/www/firefox/work/firefox-45.0.1/obj-x86_64-portbld-freebsd10.3/config.status'
failed gmake[3]: ***
[/usr/home/PORTS/work/usr/ports/www/firefox/work/firefox-45.0.1/obj-x86_64-portbld-freebsd10.3/config.status]
Error 2 gmake[3]: Leaving directory
'/usr/home/Depot/PORTS/work/usr/ports/www/firefox/work/firefox-45.0.1' 
/usr/home/PORTS/work/usr/ports/www/firefox/work/firefox-45.0.1/client.mk:171:
recipe for target 'build' failed gmake[2]: *** [build] Error 2
gmake[2]: Leaving directory
'/usr/home/Depot/PORTS/work/usr/ports/www/firefox/work/firefox-45.0.1'
===> Compilation failed unexpectedly. Try to set MAKE_JOBS_UNSAFE=yes
and rebuild before reporting the failure to the maintainer. *** Error
code 1

Stop.
make[1]: stopped in /usr/ports/www/firefox
*** Error code 1

Stop.
make: stopped in /usr/ports/www/firefox

I just ran this after removing WRKDIRPREFIX from the environment.
Before I have been able to built firefox without WRKDIRPREFIX in the
same shell. The same error happens in a fresh shell. If it matters, I
believe that 37 was the last version I could built with WRKDIRPREFIX.

I have compiled more than 100 ports these days on the machine. All
others did not have a problem with WRKDIRPREFIX.

Erich
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impossible to compile firefox when WRKDIRPREFIX is used

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

I use WRKDIRPREFIX as a standard outside of jails. I could not compile
there firefox since some time. I started to investigate today with a
ports tree from last Sunday/Monday and still have had this problem.

After removing WRKDIRPREFIX, it all worked as expected.

Erich
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Re: make clean differs between machines/jails

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Wed, 03 Jun 2015 21:12:41 -0700
"Chris H"  wrote:

> On Thu, 4 Jun 2015 10:39:25 +0800 Erich Dollansky
>  wrote
> 
> > I just wondered by the same makefile leads to different results.
> > Here is the output of a 'make clean' from two machines/jails using
> > the same ports tree:
> > 
> > 
> > Does anybody know why it is like this?
> I don't know I can say for sure. But is it possible that the
> list outside the jail had not been built/installed before.
> Whereas those listed outside the jail, had already been
> built/installed before inside the jail?
> 
> Meaning; if the port had already been built/installed before,
> it wouldn't show up in the "cleaning" list.
> 
makes sense. I assume now that a port shows up when its 'work'
directory exists. Do you know more about it?

Erich
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make clean differs between machines/jails

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

I just wondered by the same makefile leads to different results. Here
is the output of a 'make clean' from two machines/jails using the same
ports tree:

Outside a jail:

===> Cleaning for libiconv-1.14_8 
===>  Cleaning for gettext-tools-0.19.4 
===>  Cleaning for gettext-runtime-0.19.4
===>  Cleaning for indexinfo-0.2.3
===>  Cleaning for expat-2.1.0_2
===>  Cleaning for joe-4.0,1

>From inside a jail:

===>  Cleaning for aspell-0.60.6.1_5
===>  Cleaning for joe-4.0,1

Does anybody know why it is like this?

Erich
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Re: devel/dbus no longer starts at system poweron

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Sat, 13 Dec 2014 20:28:55 +0200
Beeblebrox  wrote:

> Using dbus-1.8.12, /etc/rc.conf has (dbus_enable="YES",
> slim_enable="YES"). This works no more. X.Org starts, but cannot
> login to any Desktop because dbus actually is not running and has not
> started.
> 
> Kill Xorg, then manually "service onestart" dbus, and slim.
> I can then start to my desktop managers.

what do dmesg and /var/log/messages say?

Erich
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audio/jack: Wrong file names

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

I am in the process of rebuilding all of my ports. When I try to
rebuild /usr/ports/audio/jack, I run into a problem.

This is the error message I have got:

===>   Registering installation for jackit-0.124.1
pkg-static:
lstat(/usr/home/PORTS/work/usr/ports/audio/jack/work/stage/usr/local/share/jack-audio-connection-kit/reference/html/globals_e.html):
No such file or directory pkg-static:
lstat(/usr/home/PORTS/work/usr/ports/audio/jack/work/stage/usr/local/share/jack-audio-connection-kit/reference/html/globals_i.html):
No such file or directory pkg-static:
lstat(/usr/home/PORTS/work/usr/ports/audio/jack/work/stage/usr/local/share/jack-audio-connection-kit/reference/html/globals_j.html):
No such file or directory pkg-static:
lstat(/usr/home/PORTS/work/usr/ports/audio/jack/work/stage/usr/local/share/jack-audio-connection-kit/reference/html/globals_m.html):
No such file or directory pkg-static:
lstat(/usr/home/PORTS/work/usr/ports/audio/jack/work/stage/usr/local/share/jack-audio-connection-kit/reference/html/globals_o.html):
No such file or directory pkg-static:
lstat(/usr/home/PORTS/work/usr/ports/audio/jack/work/stage/usr/local/share/jack-audio-connection-kit/reference/html/globals_p.html):
No such file or directory pkg-static:
lstat(/usr/home/PORTS/work/usr/ports/audio/jack/work/stage/usr/local/share/jack-audio-connection-kit/reference/html/globals_t.html):
No such file or directory pkg-static:
lstat(/usr/home/PORTS/work/usr/ports/audio/jack/work/stage/usr/local/share/jack-audio-connection-kit/reference/html/globals_w.html):
No such file or directory *** Error code 74

Stop.
make[1]: stopped in /usr/ports/audio/jack

But I have these files:

[X220]...reference/html (root) > ll gl*
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   3.6K Nov  3 07:37 globals.html
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   3.6K Nov  3 07:37 globals_0x65.html
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   3.7K Nov  3 07:37 globals_0x69.html
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel44K Nov  3 07:37 globals_0x6a.html
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   3.6K Nov  3 07:37 globals_0x6d.html
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   3.6K Nov  3 07:37 globals_0x6f.html
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   4.1K Nov  3 07:37 globals_0x70.html
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   3.6K Nov  3 07:37 globals_0x74.html
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   3.6K Nov  3 07:37 globals_0x77.html
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   4.0K Nov  3 07:37 globals_defs.html
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   3.9K Nov  3 07:37 globals_enum.html
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel11K Nov  3 07:37 globals_eval.html
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel28K Nov  3 07:37 globals_func.html
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   7.8K Nov  3 07:37 globals_type.html
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   3.9K Nov  3 07:37 globals_vars.html

Are the file names wrongly generated?

Erich
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devel/tex-web2c not found

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

when I try to compile tex-web2c, I will get this:

configure: You requested to build `web2c' using an installed
`kpathsea' version, configure: which requires to locate the
 header file. configure: error: Sorry, not found
under any of: /usr/local/include * ===>  Script "configure" failed
unexpectedly. Please report the problem to h...@freebsd.org [maintainer]
and attach the
"/usr/home/PORTS/work/usr/ports/devel/tex-web2c/work/texlive-20140525-source/texk/web2c/config.log"
including the output of the failure of your make command. Also, it
might be a good idea to provide an overview of all packages installed
on your system (e.g. a /usr/local/sbin/pkg-static info -g -Ea). ***
Error code 1

Stop.
make: stopped in /usr/ports/devel/tex-web2c
[X220]...devel/tex-web2c (root) > 

I hope it is a simple as the file  does not exist at all.

Erich

PS

The log file is available here:

http://www.alogt.com/downloads/config.log

What snv says:

[X220]/usr/ports (root) > svn info
Path: .
Working Copy Root Path: /usr/ports
URL: svn://svn0.us-east.freebsd.org/ports/head
Relative URL: ^/head
Repository Root: svn://svn0.us-east.freebsd.org/ports
Repository UUID: 35697150-7ecd-e111-bb59-0022644237b5
Revision: 371983
Node Kind: directory
Schedule: normal
Last Changed Author: antoine
Last Changed Rev: 371983
Last Changed Date: 2014-11-01 15:05:51 +0800 (Sat, 01 Nov 2014)

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Re: Reducing the size of the ports tree (brainstorm v2)

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Fri, 31 Oct 2014 19:56:21 +0100
Baptiste Daroussin  wrote:

> tijl@ spotted an interesting point, distinfo and pkg-descr files files
> convenient are taking a lot of space for "free", we can reduce the
> size of the while ports tree by a factor 2 by simply merging them
> into one of the other files (Makefile and/or pkg-plist) from my
> testing it really devides significantly the size of the tree.
> 
it is some 50 000 small files.

> Problem is how to merge them if we want to.
> 
> What we do not want to loose:
> - Easyness of parsing distinfo
> - Easyness to get informations about the description
> 
Could they be put into a single file with a format like:

[/usr/ports/www/firefox]
descr="some text which can span
line"
distinfo="SHA256 (firefox-33.0.source.tar.bz2) =
1018c2fae8c54c8a45f5a3ce348a2617a3f8039a789b09b7cfa5a27be069b229"
SIZE = "(firefox-33.0.source.tar.bz2) = 155177527"

It is a bit old fashioned but will fulfil the requirements but will add
just one new layer.

Erich
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Download does not restart for TeX/texlive-20140525-texmf.tar.xz

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

I have a problem with downloading this file:

http://distcache.FreeBSD.org/ports-distfiles/TeX/texlive-20140525-texmf.tar.xz

It is no problem at all to download the file in one go. As the size of
the file is pretty large, it is difficult for me to do so. After a
download is interrupted, the download restarts at the beginning.

I observed the proper restarting behaviour on other ports.

What could I do to find out why the restarting on this one file does
not work?

Erich
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Re: py-setuptools27 conflicts with itself

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Wed, 8 Oct 2014 07:06:09 +0200
Rainer Hurling  wrote:

> Am 08.10.2014 um 05:35 schrieb Erich Dollansky:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I just updated my ports tree a few minutes ago and tried to
> > install /usr/ports/devel/py-setuptools27
> >
> > This is what I get:
> >
> > ===>   Registering installation for py27-setuptools27-5.5.1
> > pkg-static: py27-setuptools27-5.5.1 conflicts with
> > py27-setuptools-5.5.1 (installs files into the same place).
> > Problematic
> > file: /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/easy-install.pth.dist
> > *** Error code 70
> >
> > Stop.
> > make: stopped in /usr/ports/devel/py-setuptools27
> >
> > How can a port conflict with itself?
> >
> > Should I deinstall it? I do not want to risk this without some kind
> > of confirmation.
> >
> > Erich
> 
> It is only almost the same. py27-setuptools27 conflicts with 
> py27-setuptools (take care of the '27' after setuptools). There had
> been a slight change in the near past.
> 
you mean, a new set of glasses are highly recommented? Yes, I agree
with you.

> For me, it helped to change the origin and update again. Eventually
> it is also necessary to delete the old version py27-setuptools before.

I just deleted it and the rest seem to work for the moment.

Thanks!

Erich
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py-setuptools27 conflicts with itself

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

I just updated my ports tree a few minutes ago and tried to
install /usr/ports/devel/py-setuptools27

This is what I get:

===>   Registering installation for py27-setuptools27-5.5.1
pkg-static: py27-setuptools27-5.5.1 conflicts with
py27-setuptools-5.5.1 (installs files into the same place).
Problematic
file: /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/easy-install.pth.dist ***
Error code 70

Stop.
make: stopped in /usr/ports/devel/py-setuptools27

How can a port conflict with itself?

Should I deinstall it? I do not want to risk this without some kind of
confirmation.

Erich
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Re: service doen't get started at boottime, but can start manually

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Sun, 7 Sep 2014 09:03:21 +0200
"O. Hartmann"  wrote:

> 
> I use a service (textprox/refdb from ports, refdb_enable="YES"
> in /etc/rc.conf.local) that is supposed to startup at boottime. On
> one CURRENT system, running
> 
>  FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT #3 r271210: Sat Sep  6 22:39:59 CEST 2014 amd64
> 
> the service is not started at boottime, but I can start the service
> manually via
> 
> service refdb start
> 
> I tried enabling rc_debug=YES in /etc/rc.conf but I do not see any
> failure of the start attempt of that specific service in the logs or
> on the console. 
> 
> Is there an elegant way to debug rc.d and the startup procedure
> without having the system reboot (I do not have jails or VM, sorry)?
> 
could it be that the spelling in either rc.conf and the spelling in the
actual script differ so that FreeBSD does not start it?

Erich
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Re: I want to upgrade an old (8.3-RC2) FReeBSD installation, but can't install subversion

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

I did not got through the full thread to see if you found a solution.

Allow me to tell you how I generally update multiple machines no matter
in what state they are in. If they are all on the same source version,
I compile on one machine the new kernel for the target machine. I will
install it them either via NFS on other machines or via bootable media
on which I copy the newly compiled source tree and the new binaries.

When the other machine is up, I go through the normal installation
procedure for kernel and world. Be careful with mergemaster and do not
overwrite some configuration files.

It might seems awkward but I did not run into any problems since I
moved to this procedure.

You might get first a generic kernel onto an external media and upgrade
to generic if you want before compiling the 'real thing' on the target
machine.

Erich

On Tue, 26 Aug 2014 22:11:25 +0200
Torfinn Ingolfsen  wrote:

> I have a machine which has an old installation of FreeBSD 8.3 on it:
> root@kg-vm2# uname -a
> FreeBSD kg-vm2 8.3-RC2 FreeBSD 8.3-RC2 #0: Sat Mar 24 16:15:47 UTC
> 2012 r...@mason.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
> amd64
> 
> and I want to update it. Since FreeBSD this old doesn't have svnlite
> installed, I fetch a ports tree (no, this machine didn't have one
> already) and try to install the subversion port:
> root@kg-vm2# cd /usr/ports/devel/subversion
> root@kg-vm2# make install
> Unknown modifier 't'
> 
> "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 1727: Malformed conditional
> (defined(USE_RC_SUBR) && ${USE_RC_SUBR:tu} != "YES")
> Unknown modifier 't'
> 
> Unknown modifier 't'
> 
> Unknown modifier 't'
> 
> "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.sites.mk", line 956: Malformed conditional
> (!empty(_PERL_CPAN_ID) && ${_PERL_CPAN_FLAG:tl} == "cpan")
> Unknown modifier 't'
> 
> Unknown modifier 't'
> 
> "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 2858: Unclosed conditional/for loop
> "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 2858: Unexpected end of file in for
> loop.
> 
> "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 6574: Unclosed conditional/for loop
> "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 6574: Unexpected end of file in for
> loop.
> 
> make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
> 
> So I google a bit and find this[1] thread.
> Hmm, ok let's try to install bmake then:
> root@kg-vm2# cd /usr/ports/devel/bmake
> root@kg-vm2# make install
> Unknown modifier 't'
> 
> Unknown modifier 't'
> 
> Unknown modifier 't'
> 
> Unknown modifier 't'
> 
> Unknown modifier 't'
> 
> "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.sites.mk", line 956: Malformed conditional
> (!empty(_PERL_CPAN_ID) && ${_PERL_CPAN_FLAG:tl} == "cpan")
> Unknown modifier 't'
> 
> Unknown modifier 't'
> 
> "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 2858: Unclosed conditional/for loop
> "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 2858: Unexpected end of file in for
> loop.
> 
> "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 6574: Unclosed conditional/for loop
> "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 6574: Unexpected end of file in for
> loop.
> 
> 1 open conditional:
>  at line 1167 (evaluated to true)
> make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
> 
> Now, can anyone explain to me how I am going to get an updated source
> (/usr/src) onto this machine, without resorting to (to me, totally
> unnecessary) unconventional steps?
> 
> AFAICT, there is nothing in /usr/ports/UPDATING about this.
> So much for POLA.
> Bah.
> 
> References:
> 1) https://forums.freebsd.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=46291#p258936

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Re: Who was the mental genius

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Thu, 05 Jun 2014 15:09:53 -0500
Paul Schmehl  wrote:

> That decided it was a good idea to completely break ports to force
> people to upgrade?  You couldn't come up with a warning system
> instead of outright breaking ports?  The idiots are apparently
> running the asylum.  {{sigh}}
> 

this is the reason why I am asking for versions on the ports tree since
a decade. Ok, we have the revision now. Just go back in the revision
until it works. It is a good practice to make a note of the revision of
the running ports tree you have before updating it.

Erich
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Re: chrome does not work inside a jail

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Sun, 04 May 2014 21:10:53 -0400
Fbsd8  wrote:

> Erich Dollansky wrote:
> > 
> > I just installed chrome inside a jail. It does not display
> > anything. No matter what it is like settings or configuration or
> > any website. The same works as expected when chrome runs inside the
> > host system.
> > 
> > The chrome version is Version 33.0.1750.152 (256984).
> > 
> > When I run other applications like firefox, kate, gedit or
> > claws-mail in a jail, it all works.
> > 
> > Is this normal?
> > 
> > Erich
> > 
> 
> 
> What do you mean by "installed chrome inside a jail"?

I created a normal FreeBSD jail. I copied the ports tree into the jail.
Started the jail and compiled chrome.
> 
> What version of FreeBSD you running?

10.0 STABLE.

> Are you running xorg and desktop in a jail?

No, X run directly on the machine. Also the desktop. I used telnet to
connect to the jail.

> What video card are you using?
> 
I use the internal GPU of a second generation i7 CPU.

Erich
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chrome does not work inside a jail

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

I just installed chrome inside a jail. It does not display anything. No
matter what it is like settings or configuration or any website. The
same works as expected when chrome runs inside the host system.

The chrome version is Version 33.0.1750.152 (256984).

When I run other applications like firefox, kate, gedit or claws-mail
in a jail, it all works.

Is this normal?

Erich

PS: this is the console output I get when I run chrome inside a jail:

[88985:293626880:0504/204051:ERROR:browser_main_loop.cc(234)] Gdk:
shmget failed: error 78 (Function not implemented)
[88997:293626880:0504/204052:ERROR:context_group.cc(149)]
ContextGroup::Initialize failed because too few texture units
supported.
[88997:293626880:0504/204052:ERROR:gles2_cmd_decoder.cc(2255)]
GpuScheduler::InitializeCommon failed because group failed to
initialize.
[88993:293626880:0504/204052:ERROR:command_buffer_proxy_impl.cc(165)]
Failed to initialize command buffer service.
[88997:293626880:0504/204052:ERROR:context_group.cc(149)]
ContextGroup::Initialize failed because too few texture units
supported.
[88997:293626880:0504/204052:ERROR:gles2_cmd_decoder.cc(2255)]
GpuScheduler::InitializeCommon failed because group failed to
initialize.
[88993:293626880:0504/204052:ERROR:command_buffer_proxy_impl.cc(165)]
Failed to initialize command buffer service.
[88997:293626880:0504/204052:ERROR:context_group.cc(149)]
ContextGroup::Initialize failed because too few texture units
supported.
[88997:293626880:0504/204052:ERROR:gles2_cmd_decoder.cc(2255)]
GpuScheduler::InitializeCommon failed because group failed to
initialize.
[88993:293626880:0504/204052:ERROR:command_buffer_proxy_impl.cc(165)]
Failed to initialize command buffer service.
[88997:293626880:0504/204052:ERROR:context_group.cc(149)]
ContextGroup::Initialize failed because too few texture units
supported.
[88997:293626880:0504/204052:ERROR:gles2_cmd_decoder.cc(2255)]
GpuScheduler::InitializeCommon failed because group failed to
initialize.
[88993:293626880:0504/204052:ERROR:command_buffer_proxy_impl.cc(165)]
Failed to initialize command buffer service.
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Re: reason 23 why we've moved to linux

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Sun, 23 Mar 2014 09:40:36 +0900
Randy Bush  wrote:

> > strange. Whenever I come in touch with Linux, I have the feeling
> > that the people better would have kept Windows on their machine.
> 
> the first time i logged on to a linux system, i said `ls`, it came out
> in color, and i walked away.

it was not that easy for me. It simply did not want to get installed.
> 
> i have been a freebsd lover for a couple of decades, and 4.3 before

I know BSD since 79 when 'my' professor brought a tape from Berkeley
along and installed the system on a PDP-11.

> that.  but in the last couple of years it has become really painful.
> and .bashrc has helped me not have broken fingers on linux, and the
> bottom line is a *lot* less pain.

Bash? Just install it. I know some users of bash on FreeBSD. They do
not have complains.
> 
> at least once a month, i have to do port security updates on over a
> dozen freebsd systems.  it takes most of a day if i am lucky.
> 
I have written me a set of scripts which do this by using portupgrade.
All I have to do is to start the script of choice. Of course, if your
memory is good, you can enter the full portupgrade command line
directly.

You can run this also automatically wasting not a single second of your
time.

> the linux systems update automagically and send me email telling me
> what they did.
> 
> i value my time.

Why are you then on Linux and why do you try to use FreeBSD in a
troublesome fashion?
> 
> if i did not value freebsd, i would just walk away saying nothing.
> but the community seems to be in some sort of fantasy that things are
> OK and nirvana is just around the corner.  linux has matured, believe
> it or not.  freebsd, ports in particular, has rotted.  and folk are
> voting with their feet.

Yeah, you must have real good feet if you want to stay with Linux. It
is sad to see how much effort they have to put into their systems just
to follow the latest trends. They do not even check if a trend will
make a change for them. FreeBSD is just FreeBSD, year for year.

Erich
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Re: reason 23 why we've moved to linux

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Sun, 23 Mar 2014 03:19:21 +0900
Randy Bush  wrote:

> > What about using pkg(1) and what version of FreeBSD are you on?
> 
> what about standing on my left foot and chewing gum?  you're down in
> the kinky world where the customer has to spend serious time and
> energy to get around brokenness in your product.  this is a
> well-known recipe for losing customers.
> 
> > Finally, are you using portupgrade?
> 
> and pkg.  it all sucks.  and it sucks the customer's time.

strange. Whenever I come in touch with Linux, I have the feeling that
the people better would have kept Windows on their machine.

Erich
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Re: Upgrading a Port on 8.2

[Erich Dollansky]

On Mon, 17 Feb 2014 21:51:51 -0800
Hi,

Doug Hardie  wrote:

> 
> On 17 February 2014, at 21:43, Erich Dollansky
>  wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 17 Feb 2014 21:07:43 -0800
> > Doug Hardie  wrote:
> > 
> >> I have an older, but basically clean, install of 8.2 on a
> >> production system.  It has a few ports that were installed back
> >> when 8.2 was new.  However, I need to add pdftk.  Pkg_add did that
> >> nicely. HOwever, it added version 1.44.  The history for pdftk
> >> shows that a major problem was fixed in 1.45 and I am encountering
> >> that problem and need to upgrade.  Portupgrade pdftk does
> >> nothing.  It seems to decide that the latest version is 1.44.
> >> However, on a 9.2 system, I get a much higher version number.  Is
> >> there any way to determine if 1.44 is the latest version that will
> >> run with 8.2 or is there another way I need to upgrade to ports
> >> files?  Its my understanding that cvsup is no longer with us.
> > 
> > how I understand your problem, the behaviour of the machine is
> > normal as you kept the old ports tree.
> > 
> > If you would like to have a newer version of a port, you would have
> > to update the ports tree first. The big but is then that you will
> > have to update all installed ports too and then install the program
> > you need.
> > 
> > If you have real bad luck, this could force you even to upgrade from
> > 8.2 to 8.4. So, be careful.
> 
> Thats what I expected, but the question remains:  how?  Cvsup I
> believe is no longer with us and purtupgrade apparently doesn't do
> that either.

I would suggest that you take ftp to download the current ports tree.
It contains then a current svn. You would not need svn after this as
the ports are downloaded by using fetch.

Of course, for further updates, I would recommend moving to svn.

Erich
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Re: Upgrading a Port on 8.2

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Mon, 17 Feb 2014 21:07:43 -0800
Doug Hardie  wrote:

> I have an older, but basically clean, install of 8.2 on a production
> system.  It has a few ports that were installed back when 8.2 was
> new.  However, I need to add pdftk.  Pkg_add did that nicely.
> HOwever, it added version 1.44.  The history for pdftk shows that a
> major problem was fixed in 1.45 and I am encountering that problem
> and need to upgrade.  Portupgrade pdftk does nothing.  It seems to
> decide that the latest version is 1.44.  However, on a 9.2 system, I
> get a much higher version number.  Is there any way to determine if
> 1.44 is the latest version that will run with 8.2 or is there another
> way I need to upgrade to ports files?  Its my understanding that
> cvsup is no longer with us.

how I understand your problem, the behaviour of the machine is normal
as you kept the old ports tree.

If you would like to have a newer version of a port, you would have to
update the ports tree first. The big but is then that you will have to
update all installed ports too and then install the program you need.

If you have real bad luck, this could force you even to upgrade from
8.2 to 8.4. So, be careful.

Erich
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Re: Why would a port use its own existence as an excuse to fail install?

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Sat, 15 Feb 2014 19:31:19 -0800
David Wolfskill  wrote:

> Silly me -- I thought today might be a good day to upgrade X.org on my
> laptop to the NEW_XORG.
> 
yes, Saturdays are good days for updates.

> >> Compressing man pages (compress-man) ===>   Installing
> >ldconfig configuration file ===>  Installing for qt4-clucene-4.8.5
> >===>   Registering installation for qt4-clucene-4.8.5 Installing
> >qt4-clucene-4.8.5...pkg-static: qt4-clucene-4.8.5 conflicts with
> >qt4-clucene-4.8.5 (installs files into the same place).  Problematic
> >file: /usr/local/lib/qt4/libQtCLucene.la *** [fake-pkg] Error code 70
> 
Cool!

> Eventually, it will probably become moot, as I'll (eventually)

Before you do this switch to svn and portupgrade.

> migrate to stable/10, and go through the deinstall-all-ports, then
> reinstall-all-ports exercise but, seriously...?  What's causing
> this?

Even this exercise can be done with svn and portupgrade.

I use portupgrade since many years. It was hard at the beginning but it
did not leave me with an machine I could not use anymore. Ok, it does
not upgrade the affected ports then but I still can use the machine.
Instruct it to make backup packages of the installed ports and you
should be real save.

Erich
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Re: PATCH: Re: graphics/rawtherapee: r342622 crashes on HEAD

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Wed, 12 Feb 2014 06:49:28 +0100
Christoph Moench-Tegeder  wrote:

> ## Rainer Hurling (rhur...@gwdg.de):
> 
> > Thanks for this info. So perhaps your situation is like the one,
> > mandree@ observed on his 10.0 box: no crashes without the patch?
> 
> Exactly.

I do not know if this related but my gimp did not work anymore after I
successfully have had rawtherapee installed. After recompiling gimp-app
and reinstalling it, also gimp works again.

Erich
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Re: Lightzone

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Mon, 10 Feb 2014 19:05:58 +0100
Peter Woitschikowski  wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I am a professional Photographer and work on PCBSD.
> Iworks 15 Years on Linux / debian and Red Hat and have changed to
> FreeBsd. I need to work with the Graphic-Tool Lightzone, but can not
> find it in the Port-Search.
> 
it is not included in the ports.

You might have a look at rawthereapee.

> Please tell me how i can get it in a Port.

The usual answer is here that yuo can write the port.

Erich
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Re: graphics/rawtherapee: r342622 crashes on HEAD

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Mon, 10 Feb 2014 10:03:47 +0100
Matthias Andree  wrote:

> Am 10.02.2014 03:40, schrieb Erich Dollansky:
> > 
> > On Sun, 9 Feb 2014 07:07:00 -0800
> > "Waitman Gobble"  wrote:
> > 
> >> USES=gettext gmake iconv:wchar_t pathfix pkgconfig shebangfix perl5
> >>
> > as you might have expected, this also fixes rawtherapee on 10.0.
> 
> Interesting™, thanks for the feedback.
> 
> Meaning: why does it /not/ crash for me on 10.0?  Who made glib use
> libiconv-from-ports (I believe I used default options for all ports on
> 10.0, and most are actually binaries installed with pkg), or did
> glib20 automatically pick up libiconv or or or... Will have to
> investigate tonight.
> 

it depends obviously on factors we do not really know. I also have had
a working rawtherapee a few weeks ago. Just the last update of the
ports tree killed it again.

Erich
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Re: graphics/rawtherapee: r342622 crashes on HEAD

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Sun, 9 Feb 2014 07:07:00 -0800
"Waitman Gobble"  wrote:

> USES=gettext gmake iconv:wchar_t pathfix pkgconfig shebangfix perl5
> 
as you might have expected, this also fixes rawtherapee on 10.0.

Erich
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Re: graphics/rawtherapee: r342622 crashes on HEAD

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

I just faced the same problem.

On Thu, 06 Feb 2014 10:27:12 +0100
Rainer Hurling  wrote:

> 
> 
> Am 06.02.2014 08:52 (UTC+1) schrieb Baptiste Daroussin:
> > On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 07:03:22AM +0100, Rainer Hurling wrote:
> >> Am 05.02.2014 22:20 (UTC+1) schrieb Baptiste Daroussin:
> >>> On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 09:19:51PM +0100, Matthias Andree wrote:
>  Am 05.02.2014 21:08, schrieb Dimitry Andric:
> 
> >> #17 0x484c0ee0 in std::__1::locale::id::__next_id ()
> >> from /usr/local/lib/libc++.so.1
> >
> > Hmm, is this a ports version of libc++?  I was not aware
> > Baptiste had already committed this? :) 
> 
>  Yes, it is (as a build requisite, but apparently remained
>  installed on the destination machine), because we need to match
>  the libraries that the requisites use (Glibmm for one).
> 
>  I have given up on compiling RawTherapee with clang++ for now,
>  and use GCC 4.8 on all systems.  RawTherapee is somewhat
>  demanding, especially at higher optimization level, and kills
>  the 10.0-RELEASE base clang and Port GCC 4.6 and 4.7, all with
>  internal compiler errors.  Since GCC 4.8 worked for me, I did
>  not bother to send Gerald the details.
> 
>  We may want to retry with clang if we've got the next clang
>  version. Feel free to use Rawtherapee as compiler system test ;)
> 
> >>>
> >>> try with something like this in libmap.conf
> >>> libc++.so.1 /usr/local/lib/libc++.so.1
> >>> If that fixes the problem, then a rpath with /usr/local/lib
> >>> should be set while building the port
> >>
> >> Hmm, I am not very familiar with libmapping. After adding it to
> >> /etc/libmap.conf I get
> >>
> >> #rawtherapee   
> >> Shared object "/usr/local/lib/libc++.so.1" not found, required by
> >> "rawtherapee"
> >>
> >> Thanks for the tip,
> >> Rainer
> >>
> >>>
> >>> regards,
> >>> Bapt
> >>>
> > 
> > try reinstalling devel/libc++ and keeping the libmap.conf entry,
> > that should do the trick
> > 
> > as it was a build only dep it may have been removed.
> > just remove the line from libmap.conf before reinstalling
> > devel/libc++ and readd it once it is installed.
> 
> I commented out libmap.conf entry, reinstalled devel/libc++ and
> readded libmap.conf entry.
> 
> After that, I get the same error, when starting rawtherapee.
> 
> In a second step I tried to rebuild graphics/rawtherapee with the
> entry in /etc/libmap.conf active. That also fails with:
> 
> [..snip..]
> /bin/mkdir -p /usr/ports/graphics/rawtherapee/work/.build
> Shared object "/usr/local/lib/libc++.so.1" not found, required by
> "cmake" *** Error code 1
> Stop.
> make[1]: stopped in /usr/ports/graphics/rawtherapee
> *** Error code 1
> 
It looks to me that the entry in libmap.conf is not even needed as
there is a link in /usr/local/lib anyway.

Rawtherapee is a very sensitive program from my point of view. It works
after one update and it crashes after the next. It might also be just
random.

Erich
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Re: net/avahi-app core dumps signal 11

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Fri, 31 Jan 2014 04:40:32 -0200
Sergio de Almeida Lenzi  wrote:

> Em Qua, 2014-01-29 às 11:54 +0100, Thomas Mueller escreveu:
> 
> > On Tue, 21 Jan 2014 23:37:08 -0200, Sergio de Almeida Lenzi wrote:
> > > avahi-daemon dumps core, and I am unable
> > > to determinw why because it aborts core just before reaching
> > > the main()  procedure..
> > > =
> > > 
> > > #0  0x000801304604 in pthread_testcancel ()
> > > from /lib/libthr.so.3 #1  0x0008012fc706 in open ()
> > > from /lib/libthr.so.3 #2  0x000801517227 in __gets_chk ()
> > > from /lib/libssp.so.0 #3  0x0008015173d2 in __chk_fail ()
> > > from /lib/libssp.so.0 #4  0x000801516ace in .init ()
> > > from /lib/libssp.so.0 #5  0x7fffd130 in ?? ()
> > > #6  0x00080061e6d1 in r_debug_state ()
> > > from /libexec/ld-elf.so.1 #7  0x00080061dd57 in
> > > __tls_get_addr () from /libexec/ld-elf.so.1 #8
> > > 0x00080061c099 in .text () from /libexec/ld-elf.so.1 #9
> > > 0x in ?? ()
> > > =
> > > 
> > > any ideas???
> > 
> > Seems like a bad interaction with stack protector (libssp).
> > 
> > I managed to get working binaries (10.0-STABLE, amd64) by adding
> > --disable-stack-protector to CONFIGURE_ARGS
> > 
I just did this and can confirm that this helps.

Erich
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Re: Portmanager vs portupgrade

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Thu, 23 Jan 2014 08:55:20 -0500
Ajtim  wrote:

> On Thursday 23 January 2014 13:08:17 RW wrote:
> > On Thu, 23 Jan 2014 12:39:59 +
> > Matthew Seaman wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > > maintained by the same people (bdrewery mostly).  portupgrade
> > > requires you to install ruby as well: that's probably the biggest
> > > deciding factor still extant. 
> > 
> > For me the biggest factor is that portupgrade doesn't stop on the
> > first error, it carries on building ports that don't depend on
> > failed ports and then presents a summary of the problems at the
> > end. 
> > 
> > This is a big advantage on desktop installations where there are a
> > lot more ports and they are generally less reliable.
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> I am portmaster user from FreeBSD 7.0 and I want to switch to
> portupgrade. Should I expected some problems becaue everything is
> install with portmaster?

I use portupgrade and make whenever I want. I did not notice any
problems as portupgrade just looks at the installed ports and then
tries them to update via ports or packages. You have to tell
portupgrade what to use.

The main advantage for me is that it continues after errors and prints
a summary at the end. You can then try to fix the problem or wait for a
new ports tree in which the problem might be fixed. Important for me is
that portupgrade never left me with an unusable system. Worst case is
that nothing gets upgraded.

Erich
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Re: clonehdd followup

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Fri, 17 Jan 2014 19:36:19 -0700 (MST)
Warren Block  wrote:

> On Fri, 17 Jan 2014, paul beard wrote:
> 
> > Grr. The return key should not be the same as Send.
> >
> > I had some problems with clonehdd that turned out to be hardware
> > issued: my disks has somehow defaulted to PIO4 from UDMA which made
> > this process run so slow it would just quit with finishing.
> >
> > Now things are more what I expect, completing a clone of my root
> > disk in 524 minutes, down from multiple days?
> >
> > But it still seems slow if the disks are 1.5Gb/sec SATA disks.
> > Looking around, it looks like this might be useful to speed things
> > up.
> >
> >
> > http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html
> 
> How?  The partitioning scheme does not make any serious difference to 
> transfer rates.  That's much more affected by the filesystem, but
> even there the limits are usually due to drive and controller
> hardware.
> 
> One thing the partitioning scheme can affect is alignment.  In your 
> other mail, this was shown to be a 500G drive, which is almost
> certainly not using 4K blocks, and so alignment is not a problem.

I have several 500GB drive which use 4k sectors.

Erich
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Re: [RfD] Merging fortune ports

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Sat, 21 Dec 2013 15:27:10 +0100
"A.J. 'Fonz' van Werven"  wrote:

> I happened to notice that there are already several misc/fortune*
> ports and it takes only the slightest bit of imagination to come up
> with several more. Hell, I alone can think of at least a dozen or so.
> However, we probably don't want to fill the ports tree with a whole
> bunch of ports that are pretty much the same except for the one or
> two files they install. Moreover, who is to say which fortune ports
> get accepted and which don't? This got me thinking:
> 
> Would it be a good idea to merge all fortune* ports into one and use
> the OPTIONS framework to let the user select which cookie jar(s) they
> wish to install?

this is a good idea.

Erich
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Re: If ports@ list continues to be used as substitute for GNATS, I'm unsubscribing

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Thu, 19 Dec 2013 14:46:41 +0100
Rodrigo Osorio  wrote:

> On 19/12/13 21:41 +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Thu, 19 Dec 2013 14:04:10 +0100
> > John Marino  wrote:
> > 
> > > On 12/19/2013 06:54, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> > > > you got the point. We have to assume that a port which is not
> > > > marked broken has to work. 
> > > 
> > > I build the entire port tree several times a month.  I can tell
> > > you from experience that this assumption is not valid.
> > 
> > so, you want to say, that all the little problems which are solved
> > mainly by people who are not the maintainer should become PRs?
> 
> IMHO, it's the only way to reach quality in the port tree with a very
> accurate traceability.

you want to say i.e. all the e-mails regarding the switch to KMS
supported X should be PRs just because the writer did not read UPDATING
and the other sources? I think that this can easily handled here
without any PR.

Erich
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Re: If ports@ list continues to be used as substitute for GNATS, I'm unsubscribing

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Thu, 19 Dec 2013 14:04:10 +0100
John Marino  wrote:

> On 12/19/2013 06:54, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> > you got the point. We have to assume that a port which is not marked
> > broken has to work. 
> 
> I build the entire port tree several times a month.  I can tell you
> from experience that this assumption is not valid.

so, you want to say, that all the little problems which are solved
mainly by people who are not the maintainer should become PRs?
> 
> > So, the fault is on our side. Why should we spam
> > GNATS with our problem? 
> > GNATS for confirmed problems, the list for anything else.
> 
> Where is this cited?
> PRs are not for confirmed problems.  They are for any problem.
> 
> However, this kind of "confirmation" post is not the type of post I
> was complaining about.  Unless your "confirmation" is no more than an
> except of a log, then it is.
> 
> To iterate my opinion, if a breakage is a symptom of a systematic
> issue, or the port in question breaks like 6000 dependent ports, the
> ports@ is appropriate.  If it's a single broken port, then a PR is
> appropriate. Alternatively, email the maintainer only.  The majority
> of us on this list do not care about individual broken ports and
> getting a sent a log is noise at best.

The sender of an e-mail does not need the majority but a single
individual with the proper hint.

Erich
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Re: If ports@ list continues to be used as substitute for GNATS, I'm unsubscribing

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Wed, 18 Dec 2013 11:46:58 +0100
David Demelier  wrote:

> 2013/12/17 John Marino :
> > Over the months I've seen several ports users copy a failure log and
> > mail it to ports@, usually without even saying "hello".  I've tried
> > to discourage that behavior but other members of this mail list
> > encourage this method of bypassing writing PRs.  One user even
> > proudly boasted that sending email to ports@ is faster than writing
> > a PR so of course he was going to do that instead.
> >
> > If this kind of post is acceptable to the rest of the people here,
> > and I'm alone in not only finding it very rude, but also making the
> > volume of ports@ too high, then please tell me that the problem is
> > with me.
> >
> > If nothing is going to change, I am going to unsubscribe from ports@
> > list.  The gcc developers on g...@gcc.gnu.org always tell a poster
> > when a post in appropriate for that list and as a result and as a
> > result the posters usually only make a mistake once.  I'd like to
> > see something closer to that, but if the list isn't going to be
> > policed then it's too noisy for me.
> >
> > John
> 
> I agree on some points. However, sometimes users asks why it does not
> compile because it can come from their installations. It's quite true,
> a port "should" compile if not it should be marked as BROKEN. I
> personally prefer to ask to the list when it does not compiles because
> it can comes from me.
> 
> For instance I asked for virtualbox because I didn't see any other
> complaint nor PRs and since it compiles from my system and not
> poudriere I thought I did something wrong. And for that purpose I
> think that we should not spam the GNATS where problems can appear at
> the user side first.
> 
you got the point. We have to assume that a port which is not marked
broken has to work. So, the fault is on our side. Why should we spam
GNATS with our problem?

GNATS for confirmed problems, the list for anything else.

> But for me, I often starts my mails by Hello :-).

A Hi should also do the job.

Erich
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display network connections in X11

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

I have had once an application installed that showed the current
network connections as a graph in an X11 window.

Does anybody know the name of such an application?

Thanks!

Erich
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Re: [games/ofortune] CFT and pending issues

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Thu, 5 Dec 2013 22:54:37 +0100
"A.J. 'Fonz' van Werven"  wrote:

> A short recap for those of you who are subscribed to freebsd-ports@
> but not freebsd-stable@: when I opened my inbox this morning I found
> a typical WTF thread: the (hardly) "offensive" fortune cookies have
> been kicked out of 10-BETA4. Since I (and many others) find this Just
> Plain Stupid (tm) I created a port to bring some sanity back into
> fortune(6).
> 
> Anyone running FreeBSD 10-BETA4 feel free to test the port and
> comment on it before I file the PR asking for it to be committed.

I just tried. The port does not have any problems for me but fortune
seems to ignore FORTUNE_PATH.
> 
> A shar "patch" can be found here:
> http://www.skysmurf.nl/comp/FreeBSD/files/ofortune.shar
> 
> Or alternatively, a tarball can be found in the same place:
> http://www.skysmurf.nl/comp/FreeBSD/files/ofortune.tar.gz

I used this one.
> 
> To extract the shar file:
> # cd /usr/ports/games
> # sh /path/to/shar-file
> 
> Or alternatively, to extract the tarball:
> # cd /usr/ports/games
> # tar xzvf /path/to/tarball
> 
> Install via your favourite method, e.g.
> 
> # cd /usr/ports/games/ofortune
> # make install

I used the make method.

> or
> # portmaster games/ofortune
> 
> PENDING ISSUES:
> 
> -1-
> It's tentatively called ofortune. If you can think of a better name,
> then by all means shoot.
> 
As already said, fortune-offensive sounds better.

> -2-
> The accompanying webpage is crap. This is no priority ;-)
> 
I did not check it.

> -3-
> I have found the instructions for changing and/or adding to the
> fortune files but haven't tested them yet.
> 
One step after another one.

> -4-
> I wanted to mark the port as IGNORE for versions of FreeBSD prior to
> 10-BETA4. But this breaks stuff (see point 6) and I need to know
> exactly what the version number (OSVERSION) is for 10-BETA4.
> 
> -5-
> Currently the port installs the "offensive" fortunes into
> /usr/local/share/ofortune, requiring every user to add that directory
> to their FORTUNE_PATH (hence the pkg-message). I tried adding an
> OPTION that would install it into the base /usr/share/games/fortune,
> but that again breaks stuff, see point 6.
> 
> -6-
> It appears that for some reason conditionals don't work in the
> Makefile. For your reference, I have added the Makefile below, with
> the parts commented out that I think should work but don't. In both
> cases I get "Malformed conditional" errors. Any thoughts?

I use a very different style in my makefiles and do not see the errors
too.

Thanks for your work.

Erich
> 
> Regards,
> 
> AvW (fonz)
> 
> [begin /usr/ports/games/ofortune/Makefile]
> # $FreeBSD$
> 
> PORTNAME= ofortune
> PORTVERSION=  0.99.0
> CATEGORIES=   games
> MASTER_SITES= http://www.skysmurf.nl/comp/FreeBSD/distfiles/
> 
> MAINTAINER=   free...@skysmurf.nl
> COMMENT=  The offensive fortune cookies that used to be in base.
> 
> ###
> # This is supposed to work but doesn't.
> ###
> #OPTIONS_DEFINE=  BASE
> #OPTIONS_DEFAULT=
> #BASE_DESC=   To install into the base system rather
> than /usr/local. #
> #.include 
> #
> #.if ${PORT_OPTIONS:BASE}
> #DATADIR= /usr/share/games/fortune
> #.else
> PLIST_DIRS=   ${DATADIR}
> #.endif
> 
> PLIST_FILES=  ${DATADIR}/fortunes-o \
>   ${DATADIR}/fortunes-o.dat \
>   ${DATADIR}/murphy-o \
>   ${DATADIR}/murphy-o.dat
> 
> NO_BUILD= yes
> NO_INSTALL=   yes
> 
> ###
> # This is supposed to work but doesn't.
> #
> # 702106 has been copied from an example, I need the right number for
> 10-BETA4. #
> #.if ${OSVERSION} < 702106
> #IGNORE=  For versions prior to 10-BETA4 this is still
> in base. #.endif
> ###
> 
> post-install:
>   ${MKDIR} ${STAGEDIR}${DATADIR}
>   ${INSTALL_DATA} ${WRKSRC}/* ${STAGEDIR}${DATADIR}
> 
> .include 
> [end /usr/ports/games/ofortune/Makefile]
> 

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problem compiling RawTherapee

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

I get this error since several days when I try to compile RawTherapee
from ports.

Is there a solution known to this problem?

Thanks!

Erich

PS:

 ffmanager.cc:(.text+0x21dc): undefined reference to
`Gio::File::create_for_path(std::basic_string, std::allocator > const&)'
ffmanager.cc:(.text+0x232b): undefined reference to
`Glib::ustring::ustring(std::basic_string,
std::allocator >
const&)' ../rtengine/librtengine.a(ffmanager.cc.o): In function
`rtengine::FFManager::init(Glib::ustring)':
ffmanager.cc:(.text+0x3eb6): undefined reference to
`Gio::File::create_for_path(std::basic_string, std::allocator >
const&)' ../rtengine/librtengine.a(procparams.cc.o): In function
`rtengine::procparams::ProcParams::save(Glib::ustring, Glib::ustring,
ParamsEdited*) const': procparams.cc:(.text+0xa5ca): undefined
reference to `Glib::ustring::ustring(std::basic_string, std::allocator >
const&)' ../rtengine/librtengine.a(procparams.cc.o): In function
`rtengine::procparams::ProcParams::load(Glib::ustring, ParamsEdited*)':
procparams.cc:(.text+0x13695): undefined reference to
`Glib::ustring::ustring(std::basic_string,
std::allocator > const&)' procparams.cc:(.text+0x1e470):
undefined reference to `Glib::ustring::ustring(std::basic_string, std::allocator > const&)'
procparams.cc:(.text+0x1e55b): undefined reference to
`Glib::ustring::ustring(std::basic_string,
std::allocator >
const&)' ../rtengine/librtengine.a(rawimagesource.cc.o): In function
`rtengine::RawImageSource::findInputProfile(Glib::ustring, void*,
std::basic_string, std::allocator >,
rtengine::DCPProfile**, void*&)': rawimagesource.cc:(.text+0xde0e):
undefined reference to `Glib::ustring::ustring(std::basic_string, std::allocator >
const&)' 
../rtengine/librtengine.a(rawimagesource.cc.o):rawimagesource.cc:(.text+0xde48):
more undefined references to
`Glib::ustring::ustring(std::basic_string,
std::allocator > const&)'
follow ../rtengine/librtengine.a(myfile.cc.o): In function `fopen(char
const*)': myfile.cc:(.text+0xbc): undefined reference to
`Glib::path_get_basename(std::basic_string, std::allocator > const&)'
myfile.cc:(.text+0xd1): undefined reference to
`Glib::ustring::ustring(std::basic_string,
std::allocator >
const&)' ../rtengine/librtengine.a(rtthumbnail.cc.o): In function
`rtengine::Thumbnail::writeData(Glib::ustring const&)':
rtthumbnail.cc:(.text+0xb83a): undefined reference to
`Glib::KeyFile::load_from_file(std::basic_string, std::allocator > const&,
Glib::KeyFileFlags)' ../rtengine/librtengine.a(rtthumbnail.cc.o): In
function `rtengine::Thumbnail::readData(Glib::ustring const&)':
rtthumbnail.cc:(.text+0xbf7f): undefined reference to
`Glib::KeyFile::load_from_file(std::basic_string, std::allocator > const&,
Glib::KeyFileFlags)' ../rtengine/librtengine.a(dcp.cc.o): In function
`rtengine::DCPStore::init(Glib::ustring)': dcp.cc:(.text+0x55b7):
undefined reference to `Glib::Dir::Dir(std::basic_string, std::allocator > const&)'
dcp.cc:(.text+0x571c): undefined reference to
`Glib::ustring::ustring(std::basic_string,
std::allocator > const&)' dcp.cc:(.text+0x5792): undefined
reference to `Glib::ustring::ustring(std::basic_string, std::allocator > const&)' collect2: ld
returned 1 exit status --- rtgui/rawtherapee --- ***
[rtgui/rawtherapee] Error code 1

make[4]: stopped
in /usr/home/PORTS/work/usr/ports/graphics/rawtherapee/work/.build 1
error

make[4]: stopped
in /usr/home/PORTS/work/usr/ports/graphics/rawtherapee/work/.build ---
rtgui/CMakeFiles/rth.dir/all --- *** [rtgui/CMakeFiles/rth.dir/all]
Error code 2

make[3]: stopped
in /usr/home/PORTS/work/usr/ports/graphics/rawtherapee/work/.build 1
error

make[3]: stopped
in /usr/home/PORTS/work/usr/ports/graphics/rawtherapee/work/.build ---
all --- *** [all] Error code 2

make[2]: stopped
in /usr/home/PORTS/work/usr/ports/graphics/rawtherapee/work/.build 1
error

make[2]: stopped
in /usr/home/PORTS/work/usr/ports/graphics/rawtherapee/work/.build ===>
Compilation failed unexpectedly. Try to set MAKE_JOBS_UNSAFE=yes and
rebuild before reporting the failure to the maintainer.
*** Error code 1

Stop.
make[1]: stopped in /usr/ports/graphics/rawtherapee
*** Error code 1

Stop.
make: stopped in /usr/ports/graphics/rawtherapee
[X220]...graphics/rawtherapee (root) > 
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Re: Proper way to access executable's "environment"?

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Sun, 26 May 2013 10:20:15 -0700
David Wolfskill  wrote:

> So I started looking at code that I had reason to expect would do this
> correctly -- src/usr.bin/env/env.c, for starters -- and saw that while
> piewm's twm.c declares main as:
> 
> int
> main(int argc, char **argv, char **environ)
> {

I use this concept since decades but with different names. Could it be
a problem of overlapping names?
> ...
> 
> and proceeds to use environ as a pointer to a NULL-terminated list
> of strings, env.c declares:
> 
> extern char **environ;

The advantage would be - and also the disadvantage - that every piece
of the code could have access to the environment.

That's why I moved away from it.

Erich
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Re: Proposal: do not show up the dialog(1) by default?

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Thu, 23 May 2013 07:45:42 +0200
Baptiste Daroussin  wrote:

> hi,
> 
> A lot of people seems to be complaining about the configuration
> dialog popping up all the time.
> 
> What if we change the default behaviour to not pop up the dialog each
> time there is a changed option but only when the user explicitly type
> make config?
> 
> Just a proposal, please give your opinion.

does not sound like a bad thing.

How about an entry in /etc/make.conf?

Erich
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Windows attack?

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

could it be that some spammer is sending a virus to the list to attack
Windows machine?

This is iconic!

Erich
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Re: Why does Samba requires 777 permissions on /tmp

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Mon, 20 May 2013 14:38:53 +0100
Bob Eager  wrote:

> On Mon, 20 May 2013 08:03:09 -0500
> sindrome  wrote:
> 
> > Looks like a step in the right direction.  How do I troubleshoot to
> > figure out what application is appending/changing the value of PATH?
> 
> Nothing is. As far as I can see.
> 
> What I think is happening is that portupgrade is building and running
> shell scripts in /tmp. It's running them with (in ruby):
> 
the error message comes from a line like this:

>   system('/tmp/script') [roughly]
> 
I do not know Ruby. But I am sure that there is somebody here who is
able to tell the original writer what to insert to get the command to
be executed to be printed. Then we will see what it is.

Erich
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Re: Why does Samba requires 777 permissions on /tmp

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Sun, 19 May 2013 23:31:21 -0500
sindrome  wrote:

> You can see the sticky bit is indeed set and I'm still getting these
> errors:
> 
you must first realise that this is not an error but a warning

> /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgtools/pkgtools.rb:483: warning:
> Insecure world writable dir /tmp/. in PATH, mode 041777

Could it be that we all got this message but did not bother because we
get so many warnings during an upgrade?

Erich
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Re: Why does Samba requires 777 permissions on /tmp

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Sun, 19 May 2013 07:06:46 +0100
Matthew Seaman  wrote:

> On 19/05/2013 03:56, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> > Your problem must be caused by something else. At least, I cannot
> > remember to ever have seen /tmp with a different setting than 0777.
> 
> I hope you mean 1777 (drwxrwxrwt) there.  That sticky bit is

I only wanted to note that it is octal.

> important. Without it there are a number of nasty attack
> possibilities involving things like using a race condition and
> craftily modifying a sym-link to trick root into overwriting an
> important file.

I did not think of this at all when I have written my response. Of
course, it has to be set and it is set on my machine. I was focusing
only on the fact that all users of a system must be able to write
to /tmp.

Erich
> 
>   Cheers,
> 
>   Matthew
> 

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Re: Why does Samba requires 777 permissions on /tmp

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Sat, 18 May 2013 19:52:19 -0500
sindrome  wrote:

> Thanks for that tip.  I was hoping that was the root of it but upon
> looking at my path, I don't have /tmp in there.  II used to have the
> sticky bit set on there. I just re-set it but portupgrade still keeps
> barking because it's world writable.  It seems that the conflict is
> Samba needs it to be world writable and portupgrade hates it.
> 
this is all really weird. /tmp is meant to be written by everyone on
the machine. The elements inside /tmp can have then any other settings.

Your problem must be caused by something else. At least, I cannot
remember to ever have seen /tmp with a different setting than 0777.


Erich
> 
> On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 6:46 PM, Bob Eager  wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 18 May 2013 18:34:47 -0500
> > sindrome  wrote:
> >
> > > I just found myself troubleshooting an issue where my desktop
> > > machine couldn't login to my local samba server unless I have
> > > the /tmp directory permissions set to 777.  I'd like to have it
> > > 775 not only for security reasons but also because portupgrade
> > > always barks when the tmp directory it set that way.  Is there
> > > something that can be tweaked in smb.conf so that I can
> > > authenticate without that?
> > >
> > > This was in the logs which led me to the root of the problem.
> > > [2013/05/18 13:31:01,  0] smbd/service.c:191(set_current_service)
> > > chdir (/tmp) failed
> > >
> > > Once I changed it back to 777 the machine trust was working again.
> > >
> > > It seems that I could set the TMPDIR environmental variable to
> > > another directory but that's the very same variable that
> > > portupgrade uses so it would still have the same issue.
> > >
> > > These are the warnings that portupgrade gives if I keep the
> > > permissions that way.
> > >
> > > /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgtools/pkgtools.rb:483:
> > > warning: Insecure world writable dir /tmp in PATH, mode 040777
> > > /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgtools/pkgtools.rb:1170:
> > > warning: Insecure world writable dir /tmp in PATH, mode 040777
> > > /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgtools/pkgmisc.rb:108:
> > > warning: Insecure world writable dir /tmp in PATH, mode 040777
> > >
> > > Any thoughts on how I can make Samba not require 777 on /tmp?
> >
> > The correct mode for /tmp is probably 1777 anyway. That allows
> > anyone to create files there, but only they can manipulate them.
> > See sticky(7).
> >
> > The implication of the error messages from portupgrade is that /tmp
> > is in your PATH, which is pretty unusual. Check your .profile,
> > login, .cshrc etc. and remove /tmp from any path settings. This is
> > indeed a security risk!
> >
> > Do that, portupgrade will stop complaining, and the correct 1777 (or
> > 777) setting will keep samba happy.
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Re: How can I switch compiler from clang to gcc46?

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Sat, 16 Mar 2013 07:37:38 -0700 (PDT)
Beeblebrox  wrote:

> @ Erich: The alias setting is the only thing that has worked so far
> in shell environment - too bad it did no good for the Makefile's
> dependents test (which is what I really want to get done).
> 
this is also my experience. We use a different structure in our own
make files. Ok, it is much more work to get them done. But - the big
but here - they behave then as you would expect it.

I got this idea with the alias once after I ran into the same problem
as you.

Erich
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Re: How can I switch compiler from clang to gcc46?

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Sat, 16 Mar 2013 10:04:41 -0400
Eitan Adler  wrote:

> On 16 March 2013 09:01, Beeblebrox  wrote:
> > I need to compile a source not in the ports tree. The source needs
> > to use the gcc compiler (I have lang gcc (46) installed). Sourec
> > make file complains it cannot find gcc46.
> >
> > To test, I placed in my environment:
> > setenv CC gcc46
> > setenv CXX g++46
> > setenv CPP cpp46
> >
> > When I do "cc -v" I still get clang output and not gcc46. What am I
> > doing wrong here?
> 
> cc is a program.  If you want to use the environment variables try
> using "$CC -v".  If you want help to make your makefile to use $CC
> instead of 'cc' you will need to provide the Makefile as an attachment
> so we can see what it is doing.
> 

why not set this as an alias? Of course, with the full path.

Erich
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Re: Dropbox on FreeBSD

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Tue, 5 Mar 2013 20:20:04 +0100 (CET)
Wojciech Puchar  wrote:

> >> place. One was to eliminate multiple votes from the same IP I
> >> believe.
> >> 
> >
> > Hrm. That sounds silly. The Dropbox voting actually
> > encourages it's
> 
> can anyone explain me what is so great in that software.
> 
it is a hype. It is a good piece of software if you use Windows and are
on a low bandwidth link to the Internet.


> got into webpage, and it looks like detailless advert just like
> plenty of others.
> 
> Found that it "simplify sharing", get quite bored after trying to
> find out WHAT and HOW it actually provides.

It is a joke when you are not falling under the categories mentioned
above.

Erich
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Re: [HEADS-UP] Announcing the end of port CVS

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Sun, 9 Sep 2012 19:54:06 +0300
Alexandr Kovalenko  wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 7:35 PM, Kevin Oberman 
> wrote:
> > On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 6:26 AM, Alexandr Kovalenko
> >  wrote:
> >> On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 8:15 AM, Kevin Oberman 
> >> wrote:
> >>> 2. Select US east coast or US west as your server. Pick at random
> >>> or pick the one closer to you.
> >>
> >> What if neither is close to me (there are other countries in the
> >> world, not only USA, some are even on the other side of the planet,
> >> btw, did you know?) ?
> >
> > Yes, I am quite aware of it, but I am merely the messenger. Until
> > other subversion mirrors are made available in other parts of the
> > world, only the two in the US are available. I'm sure that will
> > change in time, but for the moment, only the two US mirrors have
> > been announced.
> >
> > For now, if it is not clear which is closer, you can ping to see
> > which has the faster response. In my case, us-west is about 20 ms
> > away while us-east is 100. If you have a well connected server in
> > another part of the world, I assume the project would be happy to
> > have another mirror made available. Note that the full repository
> > is quite large. There are clearly security issues, too.
> 
> JFYI, I'm already running ftp/cvsup.ua.freebsd.org (primary Ukrainian
> mirror) for about 8 years.
> 
> But the recent changes to policies, which were discussed behind the
> closed doors by some group of people in The FreeBSD Project,
> effectively makes all efforts, money and so on, which were invested to
> support project, unnecessary. Current (semi-official) statements say
> that project is going to abandon practice of non-project managed
> mirrors and will do everything on it's own.
> 
> As for now my mirror serves full CVS[up] repo from SSD, and have full
> FTP archive avaliable, which is synced every hour.
> 
> You may have read the situation with Australian SVN mirror - when
> project officials officially prohibited guys, who set it up to use
> *.freebsd.org name for that.
> 

this all sounds like a inside job to kill FreeBSD.

I just wrote the other message saying that it seems to me that the huge
user base outside the USA is ignored.

What will happen to the project when all non-US servers cannot be used
anymore?

Erich
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Re: [HEADS-UP] Announcing the end of port CVS

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Sun, 9 Sep 2012 09:35:21 -0700
Kevin Oberman  wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 6:26 AM, Alexandr Kovalenko
>  wrote:
> > On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 8:15 AM, Kevin Oberman 
> > wrote:
> >> 2. Select US east coast or US west as your server. Pick at random
> >> or pick the one closer to you.
> >
> > What if neither is close to me (there are other countries in the
> > world, not only USA, some are even on the other side of the planet,
> > btw, did you know?) ?
> 
> Yes, I am quite aware of it, but I am merely the messenger. Until
> other subversion mirrors are made available in other parts of the
> world, only the two in the US are available. I'm sure that will change
> in time, but for the moment, only the two US mirrors have been
> announced.
> 
why stop a system then when the replacement is not up and running? Do
you want to kill the infrastructure to distribute FreeBSD?

Erich
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Re: [HEADS-UP] Announcing the end of port CVS

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Sun, 9 Sep 2012 16:26:06 +0300
Alexandr Kovalenko  wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 8:15 AM, Kevin Oberman 
> wrote:
> > 2. Select US east coast or US west as your server. Pick at random or
> > pick the one closer to you.
> 
> What if neither is close to me (there are other countries in the
> world, not only USA, some are even on the other side of the planet,
> btw, did you know?) ?
> 
Planet? What happened to the disk?

Yes, ignorance rules.

Erich
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Re: KDE 4 hangs at splash screen when using KMS enabled 10-CURRENT

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Tuesday, July 03, 2012 02:09:08 AM Nikolay Tychina wrote:
> 2012/7/2 Erich Dollansky :
> > On Monday, July 02, 2012 04:32:41 PM Nikolay Tychina wrote:
> >> > FreeBSD X220.ovitrap.com 10.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT #9: Sun Jul  
> >> > 1 15:34:52 WIT 2012
> >>
> >> Could you please backup ~/.kde4 and start it once again?
> >> My system seems to be quite the same as yours but KDE behaves differently.
> >
> > I moved .kde4 out of the way, edited .xinitrc and came to the same result. 
> > The only difference was that KDE did some 'migration' and was real slow 
> > coming up.
> >
> > Stupid question. When did you compile the ports the last time? Could it be 
> > that your KDE is a bit too old?
> >
> > My installation is pretty fresh as I just replaced the hard disk.
> >
=> I compiled fresh CURRENT and fresh ports right after, all this appox.
> the day before I mailed first message.
> BTW, CPU is Intel Celeron G530 and maybe that's relevant. Will do some
> googling about it.
>

this makes a real difference. The Celeron should not have the GPU integrated. 
You have to find out now where the GPU is and of what type it is. Some are 
supported by KMS, others are not supported.

Still, you said before that the other window managers start properly. So, your 
problem should not be related to hardware.

I also have now no real idea what could be the cause of the problem.

Erich
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Re: KDE 4 hangs at splash screen when using KMS enabled 10-CURRENT

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Monday, July 02, 2012 04:32:41 PM Nikolay Tychina wrote:
> > FreeBSD X220.ovitrap.com 10.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT #9: Sun Jul  1 
> > 15:34:52 WIT 2012
> 
> Could you please backup ~/.kde4 and start it once again?
> My system seems to be quite the same as yours but KDE behaves differently.

I moved .kde4 out of the way, edited .xinitrc and came to the same result. The 
only difference was that KDE did some 'migration' and was real slow coming up.

Stupid question. When did you compile the ports the last time? Could it be that 
your KDE is a bit too old?

My installation is pretty fresh as I just replaced the hard disk.

Erich
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Re: KDE 4 hangs at splash screen when using KMS enabled 10-CURRENT

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Sunday, July 01, 2012 11:03:41 PM Nikolay Tychina wrote:
> 2012/7/1 Erich Dollansky :
> > I just started KDE for you and it worked. Here are the details:
> >
> > KDE 4.8.3
> >
> > Starting X is done by a script:
> >
> > sudo kldload i915kms
> > sudo kldload acpi_call
> > sudo chmod 666 /dev/acpi
> > startx
> >
> > .xinitrc looks like this (after deleting the comments):
> >
> > xset m 10 3
> > xmodmap .xmodmaprc
> > exec /usr/local/bin/startkde
> >
> > I only started konqueror to open FreeBSD.org. It worked as expected.
> >
> 
> Thank you for taking the time for this non-momentary action. Are you
> running CURRENT?

Yes:

FreeBSD X220.ovitrap.com 10.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT #9: Sun Jul  1 
15:34:52 WIT 2012

But the sources are one day older.

> And did you start KDE with no previous configuration available?

No, as I have started KDE before. I should not have had a configuration when I 
started it for the first time. I am not able to tell you if I started KDE while 
this machine was on VESA.

> Is Composite enabled in your xorg.conf?

My xorg.conf:

Section "Files"
ModulePath  "/usr/local/lib/xorg/modules"
FontPath"/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
FontPath"/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/" 
FontPath"/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/OTF"  
FontPath"/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
FontPath"/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
FontPath"/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/" 
FontPath"/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/dejavu/"
FontPath"/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/WindowsFonts/"
FontPath"/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/Windows-7-Fonts/"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load  "extmod"
Load  "record"
Load  "dbe"
Load  "glx"
Load  "dri"
Load  "dri2"
Load"freetype"
EndSection

Erich
> 
> 
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Re: KDE 4 hangs at splash screen when using KMS enabled 10-CURRENT

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Sunday, July 01, 2012 12:24:57 AM Nikolay Tychina wrote:
> >> > I freshly built x11/xorg and x11/kde4 on FreeBSD 10-CURRENT and was
> >> > ready to use it with new Intel driver, but
> >> > after I kldloaded i915kms.ko and started X, KDE just hung up at its
> >> > splash screen after displaying its logo (last icon). Then screen got
> >> > blank with only a movable mouse cursor on it.
> >> > Any ideas?
> >>
> >> Do other window managers work? Is anything useful reported on the
> >> console (in case you use startx and log the output of startkde4
> >> somewhere)?
> >
> > KDE started one time for me without problems.
> >
> > Did you upgrade to the latest 10 sources?
> >
> > As I do not use KDE, I did not test it any further.
> >
> > One side note, X does not start always successfully with Intel KMS. My X220 
> > freezes then but I cannot check with a second machine then.
> >
> > I would suggest the same as Nikolay that you start testing with a very 
> > simple window manager like blackbox or whatever you like.

I just started KDE for you and it worked. Here are the details:

KDE 4.8.3

Starting X is done by a script:

sudo kldload i915kms
sudo kldload acpi_call
sudo chmod 666 /dev/acpi
startx

.xinitrc looks like this (after deleting the comments):

xset m 10 3
xmodmap .xmodmaprc
exec /usr/local/bin/startkde

I only started konqueror to open FreeBSD.org. It worked as expected.

Erich
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Re: KDE 4 hangs at splash screen when using KMS enabled 10-CURRENT

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Friday, June 29, 2012 07:47:59 PM Raphael Kubo da Costa wrote:
> Nikolay Tychina  writes:
> 
> > I freshly built x11/xorg and x11/kde4 on FreeBSD 10-CURRENT and was
> > ready to use it with new Intel driver, but
> > after I kldloaded i915kms.ko and started X, KDE just hung up at its
> > splash screen after displaying its logo (last icon). Then screen got
> > blank with only a movable mouse cursor on it.
> > Any ideas?
> 
> Do other window managers work? Is anything useful reported on the
> console (in case you use startx and log the output of startkde4
> somewhere)?

KDE started one time for me without problems.

Did you upgrade to the latest 10 sources?

As I do not use KDE, I did not test it any further.

One side note, X does not start always successfully with Intel KMS. My X220 
freezes then but I cannot check with a second machine then.

I would suggest the same as Nikolay that you start testing with a very simple 
window manager like blackbox or whatever you like.

Erich
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Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD?

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On 03 June 2012 PM 7:54:46 Janketh Jay wrote:
> >> 
> > a person who operated Windows for some years does not see
> > him/herself as a newcomer but still fails on FreeBSD. The word goes
> > around then that FreeBSD is bad.
> > 
>   This is fine, actually. As mentioned, it's not intended for
> individuals that want everything handed to them on a silver platter.
> Anyone who labels FreeBSD as "bad" because they aren't familiar with
> it is an idiot, IMO. This isn't Microsoft, no matter how much people
> might want it to be. And, it never will be. Use this list if you have
> questions about ports. Is that really so difficult for people to do?
> If so, no big deal. The FreeBSD developers, contributors and
> maintainers are not here to hold people's hands. We're here to help
> people help themselves...
> 
how will you ever get newcomers to FreeBSD if not via Linux?

Why should people running Linux switch to FreeBSD?

This is a dangerous route.

Did you forget how you started with FreeBSD?

> > You are really working hard to keep the FreeBSD installations low.
> > It does not help FreeBSD if it is believed to be an elite operating
> > system.
> > 
> > Linux is by no way less complex and still many more people us it.
> > 
> > Why?
> > 
>   FreeBSD *IS* an elite operating system. By "elite" I don't mean what
> most people will think I mean. I'm simply stating that it takes a
> reasonable amount of time to grow comfortable with it. Along with any
> "UNIX-like" OS. If it were really simple to use, everyone would be
> using it, right?

This should not be a reason to make its use more difficult for beginners.

What will happen to FreeBSD when there are not beginners anymore?

You cannot ask people to learn first with other operating systems and then move 
to FreeBSD.

At least I can still claim that I learned with BSD at the university. This is 
even the main reason for using FreeBSD.

I do not understand why people get pushed away instead of offering them a 
helping hand. This is at least what I do whenever possible.

> 
>   And Linux, as far as I'm concerned is more complex than FreeBSD.

I would not use the word complex, I use the word chaotic.

> Especially it's package management. I don't like the idea of having no
> choices when I install an application. Of course, I could go WAY out

This depends very much on the distribution.

This even changes very fast from release to release.

> of my way to create, build, and install an SRPM, but bugger that! It's
> not easy! Linux is only thought of as easy because of the graphical
> installer and the fact that it installs X out of the box. FreeBSD used
> to do that, actually. Back in the 4.X days you could choose to install
> XFree86 and KDE, Gnome, etc... But, that was a waste of valuable disk
> space in the long run.

How big is X and how big is a DVD? Why is it possible for others to pack it 
onto a DVD?

I did not even notice that X is not part of the installation media any more as 
I always try to install the ports from the current ports tree.

Erich
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Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD?

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On 03 June 2012 PM 5:33:16 Janketh Jay wrote:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> Hash: SHA1
> 
> Hi Erich,
> 
>   FreeBSD is in no way intended to be used by computer newcomers. If
> they're comfortable with Windows, then they should use it. If someone
> wants to try using FreeBSD and runs into issues, that is what the
> forums, mailing lists, FreeBSD Handbook, and many other resources are for.
> 
a person who operated Windows for some years does not see him/herself as a 
newcomer but still fails on FreeBSD. The word goes around then that FreeBSD is 
bad.

>   That being said, there is no reason for FreeBSD to be more
> user-friendly when it comes to installing older ports. That just
> sounds ridiculous in itself. If someone wants to use an older port,
> they can download it manually or using something like "portdowngrade".
> Of course, this becomes a serious security risk (depending on the
> port) but FreeBSD will still "allow" anyone to do this. If this simply
> isn't good enough, then perhaps the user should think about trying to
> use a different OS.
> 
You are really working hard to keep the FreeBSD installations low. It does not 
help FreeBSD if it is believed to be an elite operating system.

Linux is by no way less complex and still many more people us it.

Why?

Erich
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Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD?

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On 03 June 2012 PM 11:41:12 Adam Strohl wrote:
> On 6/3/2012 19:19, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> > do a simple thing. Install a naked 8.3, 9.0 or 10.0 on a fresh hard disk. 
> > Get then the ports tree and start compiling X.
> >
> > I did not get a running system since at least 2007 when I did this. There 
> > was always at least one manual intervention needed.
> >
> > I did this the last time in the first week of May.
> >
> > Yes, I know how to fix this. Yes, I reported things like this at the 
> > beginning. After getting always the answer that it is working on my 
> > machine, I stopped reporting it.
> 
> Just built a VM and installed 9.0-R from the ISO.
> 
> Installed gnu-screen and bash (from ports).
> 
you did not compile it as the first item. 

> Built and installed xorg-server from ports without issue:

building is not the problem.

Start it.

I do not remember what was wrong this time.

Erich
> 
> ===>   Compressing manual pages for xorg-server-1.7.7_5,1
> ===>   Registering installation for xorg-server-1.7.7_5,1
> ===> SECURITY REPORT:
>This port has installed the following binaries which execute with
>increased privileges.
> /usr/local/bin/Xorg
> 
>This port has installed the following files which may act as network
>servers and may therefore pose a remote security risk to the system.
> /usr/local/bin/Xorg
> 
>If there are vulnerabilities in these programs there may be a 
> security
>risk to the system. FreeBSD makes no guarantee about the security of
>ports included in the Ports Collection. Please type 'make deinstall'
>to deinstall the port if this is a concern.
> 
>For more information, and contact details about the security
>status of this software, see the following webpage:
> http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/xorg
> 
> - root - xwintest.dsn - /usr/ports/x11-servers/xorg-server - 23:20:59 ICT
>  >>>>
> 
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Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD?

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On 03 June 2012 PM 5:42:55 Adam Strohl wrote:
> On 6/3/2012 17:24, Etienne Robillard wrote:
> I feel like this thread is grossly overstating how often ports are 
> broken which is super rare in my experience. Proposing a version'd ports 
> tree seems like a bad-practice-encouraging-solution to a problem that 
> doesn't really exist [in my experience].
> 
do a simple thing. Install a naked 8.3, 9.0 or 10.0 on a fresh hard disk. Get 
then the ports tree and start compiling X.

I did not get a running system since at least 2007 when I did this. There was 
always at least one manual intervention needed.

I did this the last time in the first week of May.

Yes, I know how to fix this. Yes, I reported things like this at the beginning. 
After getting always the answer that it is working on my machine, I stopped 
reporting it.

Erich
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Re: so, FreeBSD on VMware is dead, right?

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Monday 23 January 2012 11:44:56 Peter Beckman wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Jan 2012, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> 
> > I wonder why I should run FreeBSD under VMware.
> 
>   There is some Dell Blade Hardware that I could not get to run FreeBSD 8.
>   So I installed ESXi and installed FreeBSD as a VM so I didn't have to
>   switch providers.  It works OK.
> 
I never thought of this.

Erich
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Re: so, FreeBSD on VMware is dead, right?

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

I wonder why I should run FreeBSD under VMware.

On Sunday 22 January 2012 04:10:24 Jerry wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 15:12:53 -0500
> Michael Scheidell articulated:
> 
> > I reached out to a high level sr engineer at VMware and told him
> > there was a lot of companies using FreeBSD on VMware, and a lot more
> > that would, if just VMware gave us some love (fixed, or helped us fix
> > some device drivers).
> > 
> > He asked "how many"?
> 
I do not know anybody who runs FreeBSD in a VM. All run it native on their 
machines.

Erich
> I have experienced the same exact problem when contacting various
> companies regarding drivers suitable for FreeBSD. Virtually none of
> them are interested in developing and maintaining drivers for what they
> consider a niche environment. One such company did what yours did,
> asked to to name other users of the device I was inquiring about. I
> felt rather embarrassed to admit that I could not name a single one. At
> least you had one.
> 
> Good luck!
> 
> -- 
> Jerry ♔
> 
> Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored.
> Please do not ignore the Reply-To header.
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Re: The cost of a source based package system

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

how did you manage to get an answer from Google that fast?

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gK2BT8m9EhMCL0gI-yqyut3UOz-A?docId=CNG.8da7524161341a630734bbb6cf9ce6e4.231

Erich

On Thursday 08 September 2011 11:53:28 Stefan Schaeckeler wrote:
> Hi all, please don't take this posting too serious. I was just curious ...
> 
> Just the other day, I bought a kill-a-watt. Among other things, I measured 
> the "cost of a source based package system", i.e. I was comparing the energy 
> cost of installing ports from source vs binary packages (setup, see below).
> 
> Case 1:   Source based installation
> Time: 7 hours, 3 min
> Energy:   0.489 kw*h
> Price:4.89 US cent
> 
> Case 2a:  Binary packages based installation
> Time: 1 hour, 57 min
> Energy:   0.079 kw*h
> Price:0.79 US cent
> 
> If the computer is constantly running, then we should add the installation 
> time of case 1 to case 2a:
> 
> Case 2b:  Binary packages based installation
> Time: 7 hours, 3 min
> Energy:   (40/1000)kw*(7.05-1.95)h + 0.079 kw*h = 0.283 kw*h
> Price:2.83 US cent
> 
> 
> 
> Using source based ports is with almost 5 US cents 6.19 times (case 1 vs case 
> 2a) or 1.73 times (case 1 vs case 2b) more expensive than using binary 
> packages :)
> 
> 
> - Stefan
> 
> 
> 
> Details:
> 
> Price: 1 kw*h = 10 US cent.
> 
> Kill-a-Watt trick: by setting the price per kw to $9.999 (= $10), I could get 
> one more digit of accuracy for the consumed energy by dividing the price by 
> 10.
> 
> HW: Sony vaio pcg-k23 laptop (pentium 4, 2,8 GHz, huge display). Booted into 
> FreeBSD, it consumes around 40 Watt ("idle"). When compiling programs, the 
> power consumption doubles to somewhat above 80 Watt. Internet connection 
> 768kb/s.
> 
> SW: Installed 259 ports via this script:
> --- snip ---
> date
> for i in /usr/ports/x11/xorg-minimal\
>  /usr/ports/x11/xorg-apps\
>  /usr/ports/x11/xorg-cf-files\
>  /usr/ports/x11/xorg-docs\
>  /usr/ports/x11/xorg-libraries\
>  /usr/ports/shells/bash3\
>  /usr/ports/print/teTeX\
>  /usr/ports/editors/emacs\
>  /usr/ports/editors/joe2\
>  /usr/ports/multimedia/xmms\
>  /usr/ports/multimedia/ffmpeg\
>  /usr/ports/lang/clisp\
>  /usr/ports/lang/hugs\
>  /usr/ports/lang/swi-pl\
>  /usr/ports/lang/llvm-gcc4\
>  /usr/ports/lang/gnat\
>  /usr/ports/lang/Gofer\
>  /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/tk86
> do
> cd $i && yes o | make install clean
> done
> date
> halt -p
> --- snip ---
>  
> Similarly, 246 binary packages have been installed via pkg_add -r.
> 
> pkg_delete /var/db/pkg/*
> rm -rf /usr/ports/distfiles/
> 
> PACKAGESITE=ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-8-stable/Latest/
> export PACKAGESITE
> 
> --- snip ---
> date
> for i in xorg-minimal\
>  xorg-apps\
>  xorg-cf-files\
>  xorg-docs\
>  xorg-libraries\
>  bash3\
>  teTeX\
>  emacs\
>  joe2\
>  xmms\
>  ffmpeg\
>  clisp\
>  hugs\
>  swi-pl\
>  llvm-gcc4\
>  gnat\
>  Gofer\
>  tk86
> do
> pkg_add -r $i
> done
> date
> halt -p
> --- snip ---
> 
> 
> The number of ports and binary packages varies slightly. I don't know why. 
> This only introduces a small error.
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Re: The cost of a source based package system

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Thursday 08 September 2011 11:53:28 Stefan Schaeckeler wrote:
> Hi all, please don't take this posting too serious. I was just curious ...

your are talking about a serious problem.
> 
> Using source based ports is with almost 5 US cents 6.19 times (case 1 vs case 
> 2a) or 1.73 times (case 1 vs case 2b) more expensive than using binary 
> packages :)

Yes, but:

You are moving the cost from you to the the hosting companies. If more people 
use packages, they will need more capacity to supply all the different variants.

Does anybody know what takes more capacity? The sources or the binaries? I 
would believe that the sources would take more space and bandwidth but the 
different variants of the binaries could be much bigger at the end.

I remember some articles about the electricity bill Google gets every month. It 
is not that low.

So, to paint a more complete picture, we must see both sides of the fence.

To make matters worse, people like me do both. I upgrade via the packages and 
then compile while I am already able to work with the new ports. At least, if 
the packages worked.

At the end, we who want to go green have to stop using the Internet and go back 
to postal services as it costs less energy.

Erich
> 
> 
> - Stefan
> 
> 
> 
> Details:
> 
> Price: 1 kw*h = 10 US cent.
> 
> Kill-a-Watt trick: by setting the price per kw to $9.999 (= $10), I could get 
> one more digit of accuracy for the consumed energy by dividing the price by 
> 10.
> 
> HW: Sony vaio pcg-k23 laptop (pentium 4, 2,8 GHz, huge display). Booted into 
> FreeBSD, it consumes around 40 Watt ("idle"). When compiling programs, the 
> power consumption doubles to somewhat above 80 Watt. Internet connection 
> 768kb/s.
> 
> SW: Installed 259 ports via this script:
> --- snip ---
> date
> for i in /usr/ports/x11/xorg-minimal\
>  /usr/ports/x11/xorg-apps\
>  /usr/ports/x11/xorg-cf-files\
>  /usr/ports/x11/xorg-docs\
>  /usr/ports/x11/xorg-libraries\
>  /usr/ports/shells/bash3\
>  /usr/ports/print/teTeX\
>  /usr/ports/editors/emacs\
>  /usr/ports/editors/joe2\
>  /usr/ports/multimedia/xmms\
>  /usr/ports/multimedia/ffmpeg\
>  /usr/ports/lang/clisp\
>  /usr/ports/lang/hugs\
>  /usr/ports/lang/swi-pl\
>  /usr/ports/lang/llvm-gcc4\
>  /usr/ports/lang/gnat\
>  /usr/ports/lang/Gofer\
>  /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/tk86
> do
> cd $i && yes o | make install clean
> done
> date
> halt -p
> --- snip ---
>  
> Similarly, 246 binary packages have been installed via pkg_add -r.
> 
> pkg_delete /var/db/pkg/*
> rm -rf /usr/ports/distfiles/
> 
> PACKAGESITE=ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-8-stable/Latest/
> export PACKAGESITE
> 
> --- snip ---
> date
> for i in xorg-minimal\
>  xorg-apps\
>  xorg-cf-files\
>  xorg-docs\
>  xorg-libraries\
>  bash3\
>  teTeX\
>  emacs\
>  joe2\
>  xmms\
>  ffmpeg\
>  clisp\
>  hugs\
>  swi-pl\
>  llvm-gcc4\
>  gnat\
>  Gofer\
>  tk86
> do
> pkg_add -r $i
> done
> date
> halt -p
> --- snip ---
> 
> 
> The number of ports and binary packages varies slightly. I don't know why. 
> This only introduces a small error.
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Re: Best way to uninstall X

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Thursday 07 April 2011 23:59:04 Attos wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> What is the best way to uninstall X and all the applications that run under
> X?

just redirect the outout if pkg_info into a file and edit it is my way of doing 
things like this.

I basically create with this a script which deletes all ports I do not want to 
pull through an upgrade from X.y to Y.x.

It will take some time to edit it but I did not find a better way excpet of 
pkg_delete -a which deletes all ports.

This can be dangerous if you have only remote access to the machine depending 
on how you access the machine.

Erich
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Re: Ports completely and permanently hosed

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On 07 August 2009 am 11:29:24 Lars Eighner wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Aug 2009, Mel Flynn wrote:
> > On Thursday 06 August 2009 17:38:40 Lars Eighner wrote:
>
> Done, months ago with all the core dump stuff.  Still open. 
> Umass still crashes the system if I plug the camera or the mp3
> player in.  (I don't mean just doesn't work in some vague way;
> I mean really crashes the system.) Okay, I don't like, but

I never have had this problem. Only unplugging does not work 
always. But I get an error message and I have to reboot then to 
unmount.

> About 6.2 these things looked to the system like FAT drives. 

This is how it should be. Do other USB devices actually work?

Not, that it is a problem outside FreeBSD. BIOS, hardware ...

> Now they look like icebergs and it's "Nearer My God to Thee"

I know people here who love icebergs.

Erich
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Re: Ports completely and permanently hosed

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On 07 August 2009 am 10:14:25 b. f. wrote:
> On 8/7/09, Erich Dollansky  wrote:
> > On 07 August 2009 am 08:44:44 b. f. wrote:
> >> Erich Dollansky wrote:

> >> >If this would be synchronised with the main FreeBSD
> >> > releases, it would have a minor effect on users.
> >>
> >> But please don't attempt to slow needed development by
> >> making *(&@q...@ suggestions like this.  If you need a
> >> seat-belt, put it on -- but don't wrap it around everyone's
> >> neck.
> >
> > So, why is there a ports freeze just before a new release?
> >
> > Isn't it done just out of the same reason?
> >
> > They want to have a stable ports tree on the day of the
> > release.
>
> Yes, and for building a stable subset of packages beforehand to
> ship with the release.  But these freezes are considered to be
> a necessary evil, to be removed as soon as possible, and not
> something that should be in place from release to release. The
> current version of the Ports tree is supposed to be the leading
> edge of (downstream) development.
>
You misunderstand me. I do not want a freeze of the ports tree, I 
only recommend, to either delay an update of a base port to the 
next freeze or put a short freeze around during which only ports 
are updated which got screwed by the change.

If I want a freeze to 'my' ports tree, I keep the one from the 
last release.

Erich
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Re: Ports completely and permanently hosed

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On 07 August 2009 am 09:29:59 Lars Eighner wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Aug 2009, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> > On 06 August 2009 pm 19:10:07 Lars Eighner wrote:
> >
> > do not even ask this question if you have a working system.
> >
> > I realised this problem by luck when I tried to update a
> > single program which is affected by this. After seeing how
> > many ports depend on this, I decided to keep my system as it
> > is and wait until FreeBSD 8 is officially out.
>
> Well, I deinstalled python26 and python25 which was hanging
> around but was not set in make.conf.  I deinstalled python24,
> which said it wasn't there, but I found a directory for it in
> /usr/local/include .  Then I forced pkg_delete py\*  I

You went really deep into the system to do a simple things which 
should have been done by the ports system.

> The kde disaster is still grinding, but I have high hopes.

Stay with 3.x.
>
> > If this would be synchronised with the main FreeBSD releases,
> > it would have a minor effect on users.
>
> Was it 6.0 when they upgraded Xorg just after the release?  You
> might as well have used the ports tree disc as a coaster.

If synchronised, this would not happen. But do not forget, X is an 
external project. So, things can only be delayed with the freeze 
but not be accelerated.

I think that the ports tree is pretty good but once in a while it 
really hits you.

Erich
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Re: Ports completely and permanently hosed

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On 07 August 2009 am 08:44:44 b. f. wrote:
> Erich Dollansky wrote:
> >I think that you hit the weakest point of FreeBSD. When a
> > version number of a base port changes, hundreds or even
> > thousands of ports have to be recompiled. It is basically the
> > same effect as when the major version number of FreeBSD
> > changes.
>
> The same is true of almost any build-from-source distribution
> that uses shared libraries, not just FreeBSD.
>
of course, this is plain logic.

> >If this would be synchronised with the main FreeBSD releases,
> > it would have a minor effect on users.
>
> But please don't attempt to slow needed development by making
> *(&@q...@ suggestions like this.  If you need a seat-belt,
> put it on -- but don't wrap it around everyone's neck.
>
So, why is there a ports freeze just before a new release?

Isn't it done just out of the same reason?

They want to have a stable ports tree on the day of the release.

As I said, my seatbelt is the freeze whenever a basic library gets 
changed.

Erich
> b.


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Re: Ports completely and permanently hosed

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On 06 August 2009 pm 19:10:07 Lars Eighner wrote:
>
> Would these things build if I deleted all 1619 installed
> packages and started from scratch, or are the circular gotchas
> built-in with python and qt?

do not even ask this question if you have a working system.

I realised this problem by luck when I tried to update a single 
program which is affected by this. After seeing how many ports 
depend on this, I decided to keep my system as it is and wait 
until FreeBSD 8 is officially out.

I will then do a full upgrade.

I think that you hit the weakest point of FreeBSD. When a version 
number of a base port changes, hundreds or even thousands of 
ports have to be recompiled. It is basically the same effect as 
when the major version number of FreeBSD changes.

If this would be synchronised with the main FreeBSD releases, it 
would have a minor effect on users.

Erich
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Re: after update - not all jpeg files are displayable

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

I do not know if this will help here.

I have had in the past a very different problem which seems 
unsolvable.

I did the same as you using portupgrade to bring my system to the 
current status. It broke some things.

By change, I got the problem solve by manually compiling some 
ports and reinstalling them.

Check what ports are needed by your program. Start at the base 
reinstalling them manually.

I did this just by chance and found my system working afterwards.

Yes, I know, it is a lot of work if you cannot do it on the side.

Erich
On 29 July 2009 pm 12:28:46 Oliver Lehmann wrote:
> Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > depend on libjpeg.  Really, you need to do a portupgrade -rf
> > jpeg to fix this.
>
> I now did this - it has not fixed the problem. gqview for
> example is still not able to display this image.
> I do not even have any libjpeg.so.9 on my system (removed my
> whole lib/compat/pkg directory)


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Xorg 7.4, hald & dbus when upgrading via packages

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

with reference to this

http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=694

I have a machine which got upgraded since the FreeBSD 6.1 days to 
6.4 via the ports and never got XOrg 7.4 running because i never 
got hald and dbus properly installed.

Just by chance, I saw that both hald and dbus are not put into 
place.

After compiling the respective ports by hand, deinstalling the 
packages and reinstalling the ports, hald and dbus appeared to be 
in the proper place and working.

Since then, I have Xorg 7.4 working with hal support.

Erich
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Re: Automotive ERP Software

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

sounds good.

Is there also a FreeBSD port available?

Erich

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Re: howto use Konqueror as root while another user ?

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

Piotr wrote:




thanks, but could you pls give some more details howto create this profile ?


I log on via a console as root and start X with KDE als the desktop.

All should be done then by KDE.

I can't remember if KDE asks then some questions or simply creates all 
what is needed with default values.


KDE is not my desktop, I use just konqueror once in a while.

Erich




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From: Erich Dollansky [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:19:22 +0800
Subject: Re: howto use Konqueror as root while another user ?

the error messages should have no effect if you are using konqueror as a file browser locally.Yes, try to log on once as root under KDE to create the profile used by KDE also for root. You might have to access once the Internet to create the full profile.ErichPiotr wrote:> > > if I try to start File Manager - Super User Mode, I put the root password and then I'm getting a lot of the following errors:> > There was an error loading the module Navigation Panel.> The diagnostics is:> file not found> > There was an error loading the module Print Management Tool.> The diagnostics is:> file not found> > There was an error loading the module KSVGPlugin.> The diagnostics is:> file not found> > There was an error loading the module Icon View.> The diagnostics is:> file not found> > There was an error loading the module KHTML.> The diagnostics is:> file not found> > etc.> > > > > >  --- On Thu 02/14, Mark Ovens < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:> From: Mark Ovens [mailto: 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]>  Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 18:25:51 +> Subject: Re: howto use Konqueror as root while another user ?> > Mark Ovens wrote:> There's an item on the KDE menu for this. I'm at work now so can't check> exactly where, but one of the items near the bottom of the main menu -> Useful Links or something IIRC. It's on the second, or even thrid level> menu and the item is called something like ''File Manager (Superuser)''.> Selecting it pops up a dialogue asking for the root password.> OK, it's at System->More Applications->File Manager - Super User Mode so a bit higher up the menu than I thought ;-)Regards,Mark> > ___> Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com> The most personalized portal on the Web!> > > ___> freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports> To 
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Re: howto use Konqueror as root while another user ?

[Erich Dollansky]

the error messages should have no effect if you are using konqueror as a 
file browser locally.


Yes, try to log on once as root under KDE to create the profile used by 
KDE also for root. You might have to access once the Internet to create 
the full profile.


Erich

Piotr wrote:



if I try to start File Manager - Super User Mode, I put the root password and 
then I'm getting a lot of the following errors:

There was an error loading the module Navigation Panel.
The diagnostics is:
file not found

There was an error loading the module Print Management Tool.
The diagnostics is:
file not found

There was an error loading the module KSVGPlugin.
The diagnostics is:
file not found

There was an error loading the module Icon View.
The diagnostics is:
file not found

There was an error loading the module KHTML.
The diagnostics is:
file not found

etc.





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Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 18:25:51 +
Subject: Re: howto use Konqueror as root while another user ?

Mark Ovens wrote:> There's an item on the KDE menu for this. I'm at work now so can't check> 
exactly where, but one of the items near the bottom of the main menu -> Useful Links or something 
IIRC. It's on the second, or even thrid level> menu and the item is called something like ''File 
Manager (Superuser)''.> Selecting it pops up a dialogue asking for the root password.> OK, it's 
at System->More Applications->File Manager - Super User Mode so a bit higher up the menu than I 
thought ;-)Regards,Mark

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Re: howto use Konqueror as root while another user ?

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

I think he wants to use konqueror locally just to see his files and he 
cannot get access to his root files.


Erich

Remko Lodder wrote:

On Thu, February 14, 2008 6:47 am, Erich Dollansky wrote:

Hi,

Piotr wrote:

hi

howto use Konqueror as root while another user from the wheel group ?
I've tried kdesu konqueror, but it doesn't work and I get a lot of
errors.
I'm using freeBSD 6.3 with KDE 3.5

open a terminal window, switch to root and start konqueror.

It works on my 6.3 machine.

When you start konqueror from the menu, you are using your own account
but not root.

Erich


 INSERT BIG HORRIBLE WARNING ***
DONT use browsers and mailreaders and the like as root. If something is
fishy on the other end (mostly you dont control the other side!) you'll be
screwed. Your data will get compromised, and your machine might be joining
a ghost network, hitting on others. I strongly STRONGLY (did I say
STRONGLY!) dis-advise that you will be using this.

//remko
Hat: .


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Re: howto use Konqueror as root while another user ?

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

Piotr wrote:

hi

howto use Konqueror as root while another user from the wheel group ?
I've tried kdesu konqueror, but it doesn't work and I get a lot of errors.
I'm using freeBSD 6.3 with KDE 3.5


open a terminal window, switch to root and start konqueror.

It works on my 6.3 machine.

When you start konqueror from the menu, you are using your own account 
but not root.


Erich





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Re: rough method of cleaning the ports tree

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

Dominic Fandrey wrote:

Erich Dollansky wrote:


after noticing how large my ports tree grows while compiling, I thought
of simply deleting it and do a CVSup to get a new one after the
compilation is finished.

This should be much faster and also should do some kind o
defragmentation. I simply cannot believe that the huge ports tree will
still be very well organised after some months.

What does the list think of this method?

Erich


It's a good start, but to keep it clean you should set WRKDIRPREFIX=/usr/obj
or something similar in your make.conf. This way you can just wipe /usr/obj
when uncleaned builds fill up too much disk space.


this is what I will do. Plus not cleaning depending ports to speed up a 
bit the build process.


Erich
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Re: FreeBSD Port: galculator-1.3.1_1

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

Fred Mirande wrote:


I want to run it on my HP iPaq Pocket PC hx4700. 
This runs on the  CE 4.21 operating system.


so, this is Windows.


Is there anything that is available?


I do not think that zou will find Windows-Software on a FreeBSD list.

Erich
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Re: how to install package from local drive?

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Hi,

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


how to install package from local hard drive.


pkg_add PathToPackage


i use this freebsd for desktop and i don't have internet connection.
i download some package (13 GB), and i only have freebsd partition 6.5 GB


Where are the packages stored?

There must be a way to access them,

If it is on a none FreeBSD partition, you will have to mount the 
partition specifying the file system with 'mount -t FileSystem' to get 
access.


Do a

man mount

To find out more.


Erich
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