Re: A new package fetching utility, pkg_get

1999-09-28 Thread Bruce A. Mah
If memory serves me right, "Andrew Reilly" wrote: On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 08:09:13AM +0100, Nik Clayton wrote: On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 10:22:34AM +1000, Andrew Reilly wrote: What I'd like is a little weekly crontab script that runs after my weekly ports cvsup, and tells me which of the

Re: Netscape Bus Error

1999-09-28 Thread Darren R. Davis
Nate Williams wrote: Does anyone know what "Bus Error" means from Netscape? It means that the program has a bug in it that caused it to write/read from memory that it invalid. This can happen is you try to read from free'd memory, or write to NULL pointers, etc. It can also happen

Re: A new package fetching utility, pkg_get

1999-09-28 Thread Ben Rosengart
On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, Wes Peters wrote: Ben Rosengart wrote: Well, I for one would like a command that fetches a package without installing it. I don't see any option to pkg_add for that. See fetch(1). ;^) (Sorry, catching up after a weekend of the flu.) But pkg_add knows where

Re: 3.3-R on Dell w/ DPT RAID

1999-09-28 Thread Mike Smith
On Sun, Sep 26, 1999 at 06:16:09PM -0700, Mike Smith wrote: We've told this machine via it's BIOS to pretend it only has 256M. When we try an install from the floppies, the mfsroot floppies panics with an 'pmap_enter: invalid page directory, pdir=0x601063, va=0xc240'.

Re: NFS /usr/ports

1999-09-28 Thread Chris D. Faulhaber
On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Cillian Sharkey wrote: Hi, When doing a make world upgrade, one can do the compiling on one machine, and then NFS mount /usr/src and /usr/obj from it onto the other machines to do the upgrade, however when doing the same with /usr/ports, it doesn't work quite as well.

Re: NFS /usr/ports

1999-09-28 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 04:39:01PM +0100, Cillian Sharkey wrote: Hi, When doing a make world upgrade, one can do the compiling on one machine, and then NFS mount /usr/src and /usr/obj from it onto the other machines to do the upgrade, however when doing the same with /usr/ports, it doesn't

Re: NFS /usr/ports

1999-09-28 Thread Matthias Meyser
Hi On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 04:39:01PM +0100, Cillian Sharkey wrote: When doing a make world upgrade, one can do the compiling on one machine, and then NFS mount /usr/src and /usr/obj from it onto the other machines to do the upgrade, however when doing the same with /usr/ports, it doesn't

Re: Netscape Bus Error

1999-09-28 Thread John Polstra
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Darren R. Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe that a Bus Error is specifically referencing miss aligned data vs segmentation violation (SIGSEGV) which is accessing data that is either free'd or not yours, etc. That was the traditional distinction, but it's

Re: 3.3-R on Dell w/ DPT RAID

1999-09-28 Thread Brian Reichert
On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 08:49:22AM -0700, Mike Smith wrote: On Sun, Sep 26, 1999 at 06:16:09PM -0700, Mike Smith wrote: We've told this machine via it's BIOS to pretend it only has 256M. When we try an install from the floppies, the mfsroot floppies panics with an 'pmap_enter:

Re: updating packages automatically...

1999-09-28 Thread Mark Shepard
Patryk Zadarnowski said: On Sat, 25 Sep 1999, Chris Costello wrote: Aah! No! I tried that with GNOME once and it drove me insane for about two weeks. Auto-upgrades on ports would be _very_ _very_ bad, especially for those using apache from ports! that's right. i

Re: Netscape Bus Error

1999-09-28 Thread Alex Belits
On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Darren R. Davis wrote: I believe that a Bus Error is specifically referencing miss aligned data vs segmentation violation (SIGSEGV) which is accessing data that is either free'd or not yours, etc. I always thought it strange on an Intel processor, since this was more a

updating packages automatically, etc.pp.

1999-09-28 Thread Christian Carstensen
so far, so good, first of all, thanks for giving me this much input on my idea. i've had a look at the pkg_version tool, which, with Nik Clayton's patch, does more or less what i've been thinking of, when i decided to post the initial message to this list. as Mark Shepard discussed in detail,

Re: -stable (in)stability (was Re: Best version of FBSD for INN ?)

1999-09-28 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
I'd suggest trying a 3.3-stable snapshot, just as soon as I can get those rolling off of releng3.freebsd.org again. If it still occurs, we're now at least debugging the latest and greatest. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body

Re: updating packages automatically...

1999-09-28 Thread Doug White
On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Mark Shepard wrote: I _like_ the idea of a email-summary of "What's New in the World of Ports". We used to have this. I think it morphed into the webpage mutation we have now (note you can request all the changed ports in the last X time frame). Maybe it's posted to the

Re: updating packages automatically...

1999-09-28 Thread Chris Piazza
On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 08:40:50PM -0700, Doug White wrote: On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Mark Shepard wrote: I _like_ the idea of a email-summary of "What's New in the World of Ports". We used to have this. I think it morphed into the webpage mutation we have now (note you can request all the