FreeBSD ports that you maintain which are currently marked broken

2012-11-07 Thread linimon
Dear FreeBSD port maintainer: As part of an ongoing effort to reduce the number of problems in the FreeBSD ports system, we periodically notify users of ports that are marked as "broken" in their Makefiles. In many cases these ports are failing to compile on some subset of the FreeBSD build envir

FreeBSD ports that you maintain which are currently scheduled for deletion

2012-11-07 Thread linimon
Dear FreeBSD port maintainer: As part of an ongoing effort to reduce the number of problems in the FreeBSD ports system, we periodically schedule removal of ports that have been judged to have outlived their usefulness. Often, this is due to a better alternative having become available and/or the

FreeBSD ports that you maintain which are currently marked forbidden

2012-11-07 Thread linimon
Dear FreeBSD port maintainer: As part of an ongoing effort to reduce the number of problems in the FreeBSD ports system, we periodically notify users about ports that are marked as "forbidden" in their Makefiles. Often, these ports are so marked due to security concerns, such as known exploits.

VBox guest additions

2012-11-07 Thread Warren Block
What is the current procedure for installing guest additions on non-FreeBSD guests? With a FreeBSD host and XP guest, the guest exits instantly when Devices/Install Guest Additions/Yes is chosen. But the downloadable guest additions from virtualbox.org aren't ISO format any more. This is Vi

Re: VBox guest additions

2012-11-07 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 7 Nov 2012, Warren Block wrote: What is the current procedure for installing guest additions on non-FreeBSD guests? With a FreeBSD host and XP guest, the guest exits instantly when Devices/Install Guest Additions/Yes is chosen. But the downloadable guest additions from virtualbox.org