Re: YAPIB (was: Drawing graphics on terminal)

2003-06-19 Thread The Anarcat
On jeu jun 19, 2003 at 10:57:39 +0100, Paul Robinson wrote: > > libh's dead, folks. It's been dead for a good while now. I was just > > kicking it to make it look like we could tear something out of this > > monster. > > It's not *that* bad is it? :-) It's right now to the point I wouldn't consid

Re: YAPIB (was: Drawing graphics on terminal)

2003-06-19 Thread The Anarcat
Bravo! Now this is the talk I like to hear. :) Sorry to have been so negative in my last emails, I see there is good work going on. I have forgotten about you efforts, Tim. Don't give up! A. On jeu jun 19, 2003 at 09:42:20 -0700, Tim Kientzle wrote: > Paul Robinson wrote: > > As to what I'm wr

Re: YAPIB (was: Drawing graphics on terminal)

2003-06-18 Thread The Anarcat
Max Okumoto wrote: I am still doing work on it... but my normal job has been getting in the way for a while. Max I'm sorry Max. I guess I should have used a bit more diplomacy. But the way I see it, libh was dead even before you got in, the same w

Re: YAPIB

2003-06-18 Thread The Anarcat
A. Jordan K Hubbard wrote: Sorry to hear you say that. It was probably the only effort (which attempted to solve the larger set of issues and not simply peck away at the problem piecemeal) to ever have any code associated with it. On Wednesday, June 18, 2003, at 08:40 AM, The Anarcat wro

YAPIB (was: Drawing graphics on terminal)

2003-06-18 Thread The Anarcat
(or Yet Another Package Installer Bikeshed) [libh CC'd, for the archives] On mer jun 18, 2003 at 06:23:42 +0300, Samy Al Bahra wrote: > > - Whether the installer is graphical or not is not the issue. Grey boxes on > > a blue background with yellow, red and black text is just plain ugly to a > > s

Re: Backporting burncd w/VCD support to 4.5-REL-p24

2003-06-09 Thread The Anarcat
On Mon Jun 09, 2003 at 12:52:09PM -0500, D J Hawkey Jr wrote: > On Jun 09, at 01:45 PM, The Anarcat wrote: > > > > On Mon Jun 09, 2003 at 07:24:32PM +0200, Soeren Schmidt wrote: > > > It seems D J Hawkey Jr wrote: > > > > Lemme ask you this, then: Giv

Re: Backporting burncd w/VCD support to 4.5-REL-p24

2003-06-09 Thread The Anarcat
On Mon Jun 09, 2003 at 07:24:32PM +0200, Soeren Schmidt wrote: > It seems D J Hawkey Jr wrote: > > Lemme ask you this, then: Given a FBSD 4.5 system, is the CAM xpt > > module patch (T. Quinot) and cdrecord a [more] viable option? Or am > > I basically SOOL? > > I have no idea, others might have t

Re: HEADS UP! Major commits in the tree coming soon

2003-05-30 Thread The Anarcat
On the tune of some cute Ramones song... "Beat on the Troll Beat on the Troll Beat on the Troll With a baseball bat Oh yeah! Oh yeah! Oh yeah!" A. On Thu May 29, 2003 at 06:18:42PM +0100, Thorsten Futrega wrote: > Dear users, > > The HEAD code freeze was extended by three days to > allow for so

Re: Build options for kernel modules

2003-03-21 Thread The Anarcat
On Fri Mar 21, 2003 at 07:47:42PM +0300, Yar Tikhiy wrote: > On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 11:25:01AM -0500, The Anarcat wrote: > > On Fri Mar 21, 2003 at 07:16:58PM +0300, Yar Tikhiy wrote: > > > > > > Yeah, it's all right to compile modules w/o the kernel, but tha

Re: Build options for kernel modules

2003-03-21 Thread The Anarcat
On Fri Mar 21, 2003 at 07:16:58PM +0300, Yar Tikhiy wrote: > On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 05:39:07PM +0200, Nikolay Y. Orlyuk wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 06:32:17PM +0300, Yar Tikhiy wrote: > > > Hi there, > > > > > > Excuse my stupid question, but I seem to have no time to do the > > > investig

Re: generalized mergemaster(8)

2003-03-21 Thread The Anarcat
What we need is a way to mark some package files as customizeable files, or configuration files. The same way that some files are marked DOC, but a bit better: it would need to be carried to the installed package database. This is again re-inventing the wheel since it is exactly how Debian's apt-g

Re: Disk utilization command

2003-03-14 Thread The Anarcat
systat -vm gives that, along other useful info. A. On Fri Mar 14, 2003 at 12:47:53PM -0500, Zhihui Zhang wrote: > Hi, > > Can anyone please tell me what is the command and syntax of it that can > display how much time in percentage a disk is busy? iostat is supposed to > do that, but I could no

pointers on how to debug a pppoe quirk

2003-03-12 Thread The Anarcat
I recently started having big problems with my ADSL/pppoe connection. When ppp gets tired of not having any LQR feedback, it disconnects: ppp[3839]: tun0: Phase: deflink: ** Too many LQR packets lost ** and the kernel spews out: /kernel: session in wrong state ...just after ppp prints out: ppp

Results: what userland files are necessary for an installworld?

2003-02-17 Thread The Anarcat
Ok. A few panics later, I brought the box back from the dead, with the help of a 5.0-rel mini-iso. :) I have put the gory details (a script record of the session) on http://anarcat.ath.cx/scrapped.log (warning: it's big and ugly as the rest of this mail). A few things about the final setup: my /

Re: what userland files are necessary for an installworld?

2003-02-12 Thread The Anarcat
Thanks a lot, John and Giorgos for those answers, I didn't expect so precise instructions. :) For the "inflicting damage" part, I was able to crash my system twice using acpiconf -s n, and completely trashed /var and probably some stuff in /usr/lib, unintentionnally, of course, so that kinda force

what userland files are necessary for an installworld?

2003-02-12 Thread The Anarcat
Basically, I suspect I have some dead pre-5.x libs rotting in my tree. I would like to cleanup /usr/lib and /usr/bin to get rid of old binaries. Is the /usr/obj directory self-contained? Does it need a lot of stuff outside of it? I know base bootstrap tools are builded in /usr/obj, but what is nee

Re: Shared files within a jail

2002-11-13 Thread The Anarcat
On Wed Nov 13, 2002 at 05:00:24PM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: > The Anarcat wrote: > > On Tue Nov 12, 2002 at 11:11:54PM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > 1)Use devfs instead. > > > > On -stable? > > Yes. Wasn't -stable devfs retired some time ago?

Re: Shared files within a jail

2002-11-13 Thread The Anarcat
On Tue Nov 12, 2002 at 11:11:54PM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: > Cameron Grant wrote: > > null mounts, in -stable at least, are broken for this purpose. on > > connection, sshd revoke()s some device- its pty, i assume, and when this > > hits the nullfs layer a null pointer is dereferenced. if i ha

Re: Shrinking /(s)bin: A Proposal

2002-11-12 Thread The Anarcat
The same approach is used in creating sysinstall related binaries or in PicoBSD. The utility is called crunchgen(1). The examples section even features ways to do exactly that with /sbin. A. On Tue Nov 12, 2002 at 11:32:26AM -0800, Rich Morin wrote: > My spouse had the problem of creating a boot

Re: Patch to allow a driver to report unrecoverable write errors to the buf layer

2002-10-29 Thread The Anarcat
On Tue Oct 29, 2002 at 06:47:24PM +0100, Hanspeter Roth wrote: > > Isn't there a means to determine the state of the protection before > the mount is attempted? No. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: 5.0-RUSH: -current install testers wanted!

2002-10-22 Thread The Anarcat
On Tue Oct 22, 2002 at 08:33:53AM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: [...] > > And I want them to do it RSN: 5.0-R is only 9 days away. [...] 9 days??? There won't be another DP? A. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: packaging base

2002-04-25 Thread The Anarcat
On Wed Apr 24, 2002 at 04:26:33PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > Antoine Beaupre wrote: > > Le Mercredi 24 avril 2002, à 11:12 , Mike Meyer a écrit : > > > Your simple shell script has to prompt for floppies. That needs UI > > > code. The people who know have decided that the current UI code isn't

making /usr/share/mk apps PREFIX-independant???

2001-12-20 Thread The Anarcat
[posted to -arch, and CC'd to hackers since I have no idea as to where this belongs, please redirect if necessary] Hi. As a developper working in the FreeBSD/ports paradigm, and developping exclusively for FreeBSD through the libh project, it has come to my attention that applications developped

Re: bin/31029: syslogd remote logging back down

2001-10-05 Thread The Anarcat
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libh?disk doc (deficiencies?)

2001-09-26 Thread The Anarcat
[crossposted to -hackers in a hope to have more information, sorry if this is inappropriate] Hi. I'm currently working a bit on libh, which includes a libhdisk library to interface libdisk(3), newfs, etc, in short, a interface to operate disk partition/slice edition à la sysinstall. The thing i