Re: HEADS UP: FreeBSD git mirrors demoted to beta status, need your help

2013-01-16 Thread Ulrich Spörlein
8:34 +0100, Ulrich Spörlein wrote: > Just a reminder that this re-roll will happen in almost two weeks. > > Thanks to a couple of volunteers, I now have independent confirmation > that the process is deterministic and repeatable and the switch can > progress as planned. > > Rega

Re: HEADS UP: FreeBSD git mirrors demoted to beta status, need your help

2012-12-30 Thread Ulrich Spörlein
Just a reminder that this re-roll will happen in almost two weeks. Thanks to a couple of volunteers, I now have independent confirmation that the process is deterministic and repeatable and the switch can progress as planned. Regards, Uli On Sat, 2012-12-15 at 14:22:46 +0100, Ulrich Spörlein

HEADS UP: FreeBSD git mirrors demoted to beta status, need your help

2012-12-15 Thread Ulrich Spörlein
Bad news everyone, tl;dr The git mirror of the source repository needs to be re-rolled to make the conversion deterministically repeatable, this will change pretty much all git commit hashes. The re-roll will be done January 15, 2013. Not affected are the ports and doc repositories, nor is the s

Re: Porting patch(1) from NetBSD to FreeBSD (was Re: FreeBSD in Google Code-In 2012? You can help too!)

2012-11-13 Thread Ulrich Spörlein
On Mon, 2012-10-29 at 23:13:00 -0700, hiren panchasara wrote: > Thank you all for the inputs. > I understand this is a long grueling process so I will attempt to do things > in approximately following order: > > 1) prepare a new port for bsd patch > 2) make sure new bsd patch has all options of ex

Re: freebsd.org git repositories and svn ids

2012-09-02 Thread Ulrich Spörlein
On Sun, 2012-09-02 at 10:40:24 -0700, Artem Belevich wrote: > On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 10:03 PM, Artem Belevich wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 9:29 PM, Artem Belevich wrote: > >> I've just noticed that freebsd commits on github come with a git note. > >> If you look past the diff of the commit,

Re: SuperPages utilization survey

2012-06-01 Thread Ulrich Spörlein
On Fri, 2012-06-01 at 14:23:42 +0200, Ivan Voras wrote: > hello, > > I was wondering how much usage superpages get in real-world systems, and > made a small script to parse the output of "procstat -va": > > http://people.freebsd.org/~ivoras/stuff/spsurvey.py > > The results from three systems (w

Re: Fwd: my git development snapshot(s)

2012-05-12 Thread Ulrich Spörlein
On Fri, 2012-05-11 at 16:49:42 -0400, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 8:08 AM, Ulrich Spörlein wrote: > > On Sun, 2011-12-04 at 18:42:38 -0500, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: > >> On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 6:28 AM, Ulrich Spörlein wrote: > >> >

Re: Build Option Survey results

2012-01-17 Thread Ulrich Spörlein
On Thu, 2012-01-12 at 07:45:34 +, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: > Hey, > > after two years I had the opportunity to run the build option survey, > initially done by phk, again. The number of options seems to have grown > quite a bit it felt. I have not even looked at the results yet but here > they

Re: Fwd: my git development snapshot(s)

2011-12-11 Thread Ulrich Spörlein
On Sun, 2011-12-04 at 18:42:38 -0500, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: > On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 6:28 AM, Ulrich Spörlein wrote: > > On Fri, 2011-09-30 at 15:41:41 -0400, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: > >> On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: > >> > FWIW, how c

Re: Does anyone use nscd?

2011-10-07 Thread Ulrich Spörlein
On Thu, 2011-10-06 at 00:44:10 -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Oct 04), Trond Endrestol said: > > On Tue, 4 Oct 2011 18:51+0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > > Trond Endrestol writes: > > > > It's in daily use at Gjovik Technical College (Fagskolen i Gjovik), > > > > here in Norw

Re: my git development snapshot(s)

2011-10-07 Thread Ulrich Spörlein
On Wed, 2011-09-28 at 00:29:46 -0400, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 5:14 AM, Andriy Gapon wrote: > > > > Just decided to follow the global trends and trying to throw all of my > > local/private changes at you in hope that the "crowd-sourcing magic" might > > somehow happ

Re: Fwd: my git development snapshot(s)

2011-10-07 Thread Ulrich Spörlein
On Fri, 2011-09-30 at 15:41:41 -0400, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 5:26 PM, Ulrich Spörlein wrote: > >> On Thu, 2011-09-22 at 15:52:43 -0400, Arnaud Lacombe wrot

Re: Fwd: my git development snapshot(s)

2011-09-22 Thread Ulrich Spörlein
On Thu, 2011-09-22 at 15:52:43 -0400, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 3:05 PM, Ulrich Spörlein wrote: > > On Sun, 2011-09-18 at 12:14:38 +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote: > >> > >> Just decided to follow the global trends and trying to throw all

Re: Fwd: my git development snapshot(s)

2011-09-22 Thread Ulrich Spörlein
On Sun, 2011-09-18 at 12:14:38 +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote: > > Just decided to follow the global trends and trying to throw all of my > local/private changes at you in hope that the "crowd-sourcing magic" might > somehow happen :-) This seems definitely easier than carefully producing the > patch

Re: [nvi-iconv]Call for test

2011-08-23 Thread Ulrich Spörlein
On Thu, 2011-08-18 at 22:15:47 -0500, Zhihao Yuan wrote: > On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 9:26 PM, Test Rat wrote: > > timp writes: > > > >> Hi! > >> I just tried you patch on latest current with clang. > >> > >> [root@current64 /usr/src]# uname -a > >> FreeBSD current64 9.0-BETA1 FreeBSD 9.0-BETA1 #0:

Re: sched_autogroup_enabled

2010-11-24 Thread Ulrich Spörlein
On Thu, 18.11.2010 at 21:51:52 +0100, Harald Servat wrote: > Alexander (& rest of the list), > > -performance has a thread about this topic. If you're interested, you can > take a look there. Here's the URL > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-performance/2010-November/004067.html I'

Re: libkvm: consumers of kvm_getprocs for non-live kernels?

2010-11-11 Thread Ulrich Spörlein
On Thu, 11.11.2010 at 13:16:39 +, Robert Watson wrote: > On Wed, 10 Nov 2010, Ulrich Spörlein wrote: > > > I have this cleanup of libkvm sitting in my tree and it needs a little bit > > of testing, especially the function kvm_proclist, which is only called from > >

libkvm: consumers of kvm_getprocs for non-live kernels?

2010-11-10 Thread Ulrich Spörlein
Hi, I have this cleanup of libkvm sitting in my tree and it needs a little bit of testing, especially the function kvm_proclist, which is only called from kvm_deadprocs which is only called from kvm_getprocs when kd is not ALIVE. The only consumer in our tree that I can make out is *probably* kgd

Re: Deterministic builds?

2010-10-22 Thread Ulrich Spörlein
On Thu, 21.10.2010 at 21:50:26 +0200, Erik Cederstrand wrote: > Den 21/10/2010 kl. 19.57 skrev Ulrich Spörlein: > > On Mon, 11.10.2010 at 11:35:42 +0200, Erik Cederstrand wrote: > >> I'm beginning to think that it should at least be optional. Removing e.g. > >>

Re: negative permission scanner for periodic/security

2010-10-21 Thread Ulrich Spörlein
On Thu, 14.10.2010 at 15:23:23 -0500, Brooks Davis wrote: > One of the side effects of increasing NGROUPS_MAX is that it's possible > for a process to be in more groups that can be transmitted over NFS > (<4). When that happens users are mostly denied access to things they > should have access to.

Re: Deterministic builds?

2010-10-21 Thread Ulrich Spörlein
On Mon, 11.10.2010 at 11:35:42 +0200, Erik Cederstrand wrote: > > Den 11/10/2010 kl. 10.47 skrev Kostik Belousov: > > > > My personal opinion that the feature is nice to have. Unless the changes to > > get this working are too large, and, more importantly, unless the > > maintenance > > cost of h

Re: porting cputick2usec() to userland

2010-09-01 Thread Ulrich Spörlein
On Wed, 01.09.2010 at 16:23:43 -0700, Xin LI wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > On 2010/09/01 16:03, Alexander Best wrote: > > hi there, > > > > there was a thread some time ago related to porting cputick2usec() to > > userland [1]. > > > > however it seems the idea g

Re: A simple and hopefully usable FreeBSD live CD

2010-08-26 Thread Ulrich Spörlein
On Sun, 22.08.2010 at 20:50:29 +0200, Ed Schouten wrote: > I think I already mentioned it on some of the lists, but I've spent some > time creating a better FreeBSD live CD (or at least I tried to). > Basically the CD is just a stock FreeBSD installation (base + manpages + > kernel) with a small mf

Re: Proposal - increase SYSV SEMMNI and SEMMNS

2010-06-11 Thread Ulrich Spörlein
On Thu, 10.06.2010 at 15:26:52 +0200, Romain Tartière wrote: > On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 01:35:47PM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote: > > kern.ipc.semmni: 10 -> 50 > > kern.ipc.semmns: 60 -> 300 > > Looks like a good idea. > > > This change is not as critical as before [...] but increasing the > > defaults

Re: GSoC: BSD text tools

2010-05-24 Thread Ulrich Spörlein
On Mon, 24.05.2010 at 00:08:30 -0700, Ben Fiedler wrote: > I'll be working on replacing groff with mdocml (mandoc) in the system base > (and yes, I am aware of Gordon's work on a man > replacement). > In addition, I will be creating or (more likely) porti

Re: kern+world / ports make options

2010-04-25 Thread Ulrich Spörlein
RDIR:M*/usr/ports/*} NOCLEANDEPENDS= true WRKDIRPREFIX= /usr/obj .include "/etc/ports.conf" .endif I guess you can figure it out from there ... hth Ulrich Spörlein ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/m

Re: /etc in CVS

2010-04-22 Thread Ulrich Spörlein
On Thu, 22.04.2010 at 12:10:50 -0400, Mike Meyer wrote: > On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 16:41:27 +0200 > Ulrich Spörlein wrote: > > > On Thu, 22.04.2010 at 12:18:21 +0200, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > > > Sergey Babkin writes: > > > > I wonder if a version control sys

Re: /etc in CVS

2010-04-22 Thread Ulrich Spörlein
On Thu, 22.04.2010 at 12:18:21 +0200, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Sergey Babkin writes: > > I wonder if a version control system, like SVN, could be used to keep > > track of all the changes in /etc. (Or maybe it already is and I'm > > simply out of date). > > arch is commonly used for things li

Re: virtual drive errors

2010-04-11 Thread Ulrich Spörlein
On Thu, 08.04.2010 at 00:50:40 +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote: > Looking at cdcheckmedia and at the logged READ TOC (0x43) SCSI command errors > (as reported by Markus) I see the following problem. Even if cdsize() call at > the beginning of cdcheckmedia() succeeds, a subsequent failure of cdreadtoc()

Re: To sendmail or to postfix that is the question?

2010-03-11 Thread Ulrich Spörlein
On Thu, 11.03.2010 at 13:54:53 +, Paul Wootton wrote: Julian H. Stacey wrote: >> I really wanted to use Sendmail as a friend knows Sendmail fairly well >> and I have a Sendmail book, but what I am wanting is the ability to have >> mail for virtual users, ie I might have 4 admin accounts, >> a

Re: tiny lib/libkvm/kvm_proc.c correction

2010-03-06 Thread Ulrich Spörlein
On Fri, 05.03.2010 at 12:38:40 -0800, Xin LI wrote: > On 2010/03/05 11:59, Alexander Best wrote: > > Xin LI schrieb am 2010-03-05: > > On 2010/03/05 11:26, Alexander Best wrote: > hi there. does this look right? > > > > Not to me, the value is not to be used this way and the comments > > abov

Re: [Proof of Concept] Stacked unionfs based 'tinderbox'

2010-02-25 Thread Ulrich Spörlein
On Thu, 25.02.2010 at 10:08:15 +0200, David Naylor wrote: > Hi, > > As some may have noticed on -current I have been working on using > stacked unionfs to implement a 'tinderbox' type build system. I have > successfully used the scripts to build x11/xorg (and have compared the > results to using

Re: Building FreeBSD on a linux FC11 box.

2010-02-21 Thread Ulrich Spörlein
On Sat, 20.02.2010 at 13:03:14 -0800, R. Tyler Ballance wrote: > On Sat, 20 Feb 2010, Patrick Mahan wrote: > > Hopefully, this is not too ignorant a question. But has anyone every > > built the FreeBSD sources, both kernel and apps, on a linux platform? > > > > I did a google on 'cross-compile fr

Re: Question regarding memory disks

2010-01-08 Thread Ulrich Spörlein
On Wed, 06.01.2010 at 16:27:09 -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: > Pieter de Goeje wrote: > > Because when you "erase" something, all it does is unlink (delete the > > reference to) the data. So there is currently no way the memory disk can > > free > > the memory associated with the data. That is a

Re: Suggestion: rename "killall" to "fkill", but wait five years to phase the new name in

2009-12-22 Thread Ulrich Spörlein
On Tue, 22.12.2009 at 11:53:36 +0100, Gary Jennejohn wrote: > On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 23:18:43 -0800 > Xin LI wrote: > > > On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 10:31 PM, Jason A. Spiro > > wrote: > > > Craig, and hackers, are you both willing to do this? > > > > No. > > > > killall is not part of standard, an

Re: heap limits: mmap(2) vs. break(2) on i386

2009-11-29 Thread Ulrich Spörlein
On Fri, 27.11.2009 at 18:22:38 -0800, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > Crazy idea, perhaps, but has anyone considered wrapping up sbrk(2) into > mmap(2), so that there is only one memory pool to draw from? Switch to > 64-bit certainly helps, however there are lot of 32-bit machines hanging > around and we

Re: how to build libthr except other components of 'world'

2009-11-18 Thread Ulrich Spörlein
On Mon, 16.11.2009 at 20:28:35 +0800, Jiandong Lu wrote: > > > --- 09年11月16日,周一, Jiandong Lu 写道: > > 发件人: Jiandong Lu > 主题: how to build libthr except other components of 'world' > 收件人: freebsd-thre...@freebsd.org > 日期: 2009年11月16日,周一,下午6:48 > > Hi,everyone, >     I checkout FreeBSD‘s source

Re: [patch] add pwait utility

2009-11-06 Thread Ulrich Spörlein
On Fri, 06.11.2009 at 23:24:46 +0100, Jilles Tjoelker wrote: > I propose adding a small new utility to /usr/bin: pwait. Similar to the > Solaris utility of the same name, it waits for any process to terminate. > Some use cases I have in mind: > > * rc.subr's wait_for_pids. This is a cleaner and mo

in_cksum.h for sparc64 missing ifdef KERNEL?

2009-10-26 Thread Ulrich Spörlein
Hi, while trying to cleanup some WARNS issues under sbin/, I noticed that natd(8) fails to compile for sparc64 only, due to missing "struct mbuf" declaration in in_cksum.h. Comparing that header to other arch's headers leads me to believe an #ifdef is missing. See attached patch, but please note

Re: RFC: Big Makefile patch for WARNS settings

2009-10-16 Thread Ulrich Spörlein
On Mon, 12.10.2009 at 18:37:38 +0200, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Ulrich Spörlein writes: > > Is there some easy way to do cross-compiles (like make universe) in just > > one of the subdirs? That would help tremendously. > > % cd /usr/src > % make toolchain TARGET=p

Re: RFC: Big Makefile patch for WARNS settings

2009-10-13 Thread Ulrich Spörlein
Hi Doug, On Mon, 12.10.2009 at 16:49:47 -0700, Doug Barton wrote: > Ulrich Spörlein wrote: > > Dear -hackers, > > > > I would like you to give me your thoughts on the attached patch. There > > are no functional changes, what I'm trying to do is introduce WARNS?=6

Re: RFC: Big Makefile patch for WARNS settings

2009-10-12 Thread Ulrich Spörlein
On Mon, 12.10.2009 at 12:34:40 +0200, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Ulrich Spörlein writes: > > Comments? Committers? > > You can set WARNS to 4 for rwhod, since we don't do Alpha any more. > > (actually, you can set it to 6, but 4 is what was already there) Is there

Re: RFC: Big Makefile patch for WARNS settings

2009-10-12 Thread Ulrich Spörlein
On Sun, 11.10.2009 at 19:09:18 +0200, Ed Schouten wrote: > Hi Ulrich, > > * Ulrich Spörlein wrote: > > Comments? Committers? > > Wouldn't it better to address the root of the problem while there? ;-) It sure would, but someone[TM] would have to fix all problems for

RFC: Big Makefile patch for WARNS settings

2009-10-11 Thread Ulrich Spörlein
Dear -hackers, I would like you to give me your thoughts on the attached patch. There are no functional changes, what I'm trying to do is introduce WARNS?=6 for all top-level Makefiles and override that on a subdir basis. Why the churn? Because I think it sticks out more, if there's a WARNS=0 in

Re: Problem: FreeBSD 7.x && ssh v2 && nss_ldap

2009-04-16 Thread Ulrich Spörlein
de any change for the nss_ldap UNIX socket leak, but sadly no change. I never observed the SSH2 problems you guys mention, but then again I'm usually using key authentication. I'll run with the patch anyway and see if it makes any change to the problem where login(1) is only able to authen