Re: kernel HEAD && userland 7.0-REL?

2008-07-04 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Friday, July 04, 2008 a las 08:12:58PM -0400, Alexander Sack escribió: > On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 4:40 PM, Mike Meyer > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 4 Jul 2008 14:42:27 +0200 > > Matthias Apitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I'm running a RELENG_7 kernel and a userland as 7.0-REL o

Re: kernel HEAD && userland 7.0-REL?

2008-07-04 Thread Alexander Sack
On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 8:27 PM, Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 4 Jul 2008 20:12:58 -0400 > "Alexander Sack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 4:40 PM, Mike Meyer >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > On Fri, 4 Jul 2008 14:42:27 +0200 >> > Matthias Apitz <[EMAIL PR

Re: kernel HEAD && userland 7.0-REL?

2008-07-04 Thread Mike Meyer
On Fri, 4 Jul 2008 20:12:58 -0400 "Alexander Sack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 4:40 PM, Mike Meyer > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 4 Jul 2008 14:42:27 +0200 > > Matthias Apitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I'm running a RELENG_7 kernel and a userland as 7.0-REL o

Re: kernel HEAD && userland 7.0-REL?

2008-07-04 Thread Alexander Sack
On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 4:40 PM, Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 4 Jul 2008 14:42:27 +0200 > Matthias Apitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'm running a RELENG_7 kernel and a userland as 7.0-REL on one of my >> laptops; I've been asked to check if a given driver problem in RELENG_7 is

Re: Sysinstall is still inadequate after all of these years / sorry I started flame war

2008-07-04 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2008-Jul-03 23:04:10 -0700, Rob Lytle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >FreeBSD partition, and install OpenBSD which has impeccable documentation. Having tried to make sense of the OpenBSD carp documentation, I can only assume that is meant as a joke. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the

Re: kernel HEAD && userland 7.0-REL?

2008-07-04 Thread Mike Meyer
On Fri, 4 Jul 2008 14:42:27 +0200 Matthias Apitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm running a RELENG_7 kernel and a userland as 7.0-REL on one of my > laptops; I've been asked to check if a given driver problem in RELENG_7 is as > well with HEAD... can I update the kernel to HEAD and let the userland

Re: eeePC 900 && turning off wireless (ath0)

2008-07-04 Thread Rui Paulo
On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 04:40:02PM +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: > El día Tuesday, July 01, 2008 a las 12:14:26PM +0100, Rui Paulo escribió: > > > On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 11:02:20AM +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: > > > Rui, > > > Have you commited your changes to RELENG_7 too or only to HEAD? I'm > >

Re: Sysinstall is still inadequate after all of these years / sorry I started flame war

2008-07-04 Thread Kevin Oberman
> Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 21:26:16 -0700 > From: "Rob Lytle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Hi Kevin, > > The sysinstall dependency problem has existed for 10 years, so I doubt that > its unique to me. It has occurred in every installation I have ever done. > > I use portupgrade for all ports. > > i s

kernel module programming

2008-07-04 Thread bruno faria
well i'm making an interactive bootsplash for PCBSD and i wan't to know where i can get info in retrieving the current log from the kernel (dmesg output), sorry for any mistake as this is not my native lang... regards Bruno Faria... __

Re: eeePC 900 && turning off wireless (ath0)

2008-07-04 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Tuesday, July 01, 2008 a las 12:14:26PM +0100, Rui Paulo escribió: > On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 11:02:20AM +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: > > Rui, > > Have you commited your changes to RELENG_7 too or only to HEAD? I'm > > asking because Fn+F2 does toggle the power of the wireless NIC but > > de

Re: kernel HEAD && userland 7.0-REL?

2008-07-04 Thread Gary Jennejohn
On Fri, 4 Jul 2008 14:42:27 +0200 Matthias Apitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm running a RELENG_7 kernel and a userland as 7.0-REL on one of my > laptops; I've been asked to check if a given driver problem in RELENG_7 is as > well with HEAD... can I update the kernel to HEAD and let the userlan

kernel HEAD && userland 7.0-REL?

2008-07-04 Thread Matthias Apitz
Hello, I'm running a RELENG_7 kernel and a userland as 7.0-REL on one of my laptops; I've been asked to check if a given driver problem in RELENG_7 is as well with HEAD... can I update the kernel to HEAD and let the userland (and all my compiled ports) as 7.0-REL; I know that this is not the inte

Re: Sysinstall is still inadequate after all of these years / sorry I started flame war

2008-07-04 Thread Paul B. Mahol
On 7/4/08, Randy Bush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> This is why there are precompiled packages on ftp.freebsd.org which you >> can install with 'pkg_add -r'. You can install them from any FTP >> mirror, actually; just point PACKAGEROOT at the mirror: > > why isn't this stuff in the docs? oh, it i

Re: Sysinstall is still inadequate after all of these years / sorry I started flame war

2008-07-04 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
"Rob Lytle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i strongly disagree with using ports for huge packages. I don't have the > time to waste compiling. Plus, you are presented with numerous nag screens > so you have to babysit the whole process. This is why there are precompiled packages on ftp.freebsd.or

Re: Sysinstall is still inadequate after all of these years / sorry I started flame war

2008-07-04 Thread Rob Lytle
On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 10:58 PM, Rob Lytle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 10:06 PM, Greg Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> On 2008-07-03, Rob Lytle wrote: >> >> > > You can get rid of the nag screens by putting "BATCH=yes" into >> > > /etc/make.conf. (Not that this

Re: Sysinstall is still inadequate after all of these years / sorry I started flame war

2008-07-04 Thread Rob Lytle
On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 10:06 PM, Greg Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2008-07-03, Rob Lytle wrote: > > > > You can get rid of the nag screens by putting "BATCH=yes" into > > > /etc/make.conf. (Not that this negates your other points.) > > > > What the hell does "yes" mean? That all option

Re: profiling broken on RELENG_7/i386

2008-07-04 Thread Dmitry Morozovsky
On Fri, 4 Jul 2008, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: DM> It seems we step on a bug in gcc in RELENG_7/i386 DM> DM> It is triggered at least by profiling program which uses getopt(3): [snip] DM> other ref platforms seem to be ok. Nah, HEAD/i386 also has this bug, though backtrace is a bit different:

Re: how can i get file name knowing its descriptor?

2008-07-04 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2008-Jul-03 14:08:12 +0300, Uladzislau Rezki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I've been writing a small kernel module, that provides information about >modification of the filesystem to user_land/userspace through the >character device. I'm using FreeBSD 4.10 4.10 has not been supported for several

profiling broken on RELENG_7/i386

2008-07-04 Thread Dmitry Morozovsky
Dear colleagues, It seems we step on a bug in gcc in RELENG_7/i386 It is triggered at least by profiling program which uses getopt(3): [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp/gprof> cat test.c #include int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { int ch; while ((ch = getopt(argc, argv, "")) != -1) {

Re: Sysinstall is still inadequate after all of these years / sorry I started flame war

2008-07-04 Thread Aggelidis Nikos
> I'm sorry I started a kind of flame war. All I wanted was two things: 1. > CD's that installed without being switched in and out dozens of times. That > was fixed by the suggestion of using a DVD. I didn't even know the DVD > install existed, but will do that next time. > I also had the same