Re: has FreeBSD's libc been swigged?

2007-12-03 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (from Mon, 03 Dec 2007 15:40:34 -0500): Need to do some python work, using a lot of FreeBSD's base libs, and I was wondering, if any ports have swigged the FreeBSD libs? I'll do it if I must, just trying to save me some work. I'm only aware of devel/p

Re: Maintaining of *-aspell ports

2007-12-03 Thread Thierry Thomas
Le Mar 4 déc 07 à 4:46:50 +0100, Nikola Le??i?? <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> écrivait : > Hello, Hello! > All ~80 *-aspell ports have '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'. Does this > mean that someone should take maintainership? Of course, that's why their maintainership has been released: don't hesitate to adopt one

Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering

2007-12-03 Thread Jeremy Messenger
On Mon, 03 Dec 2007 21:03:50 -0600, Aryeh M. Friedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jeremy Messenger wrote: On Mon, 03 Dec 2007 20:23:20 -0600, Aryeh Friedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Having said that dependencies often do depend on the order

Re: Maintaining of *-aspell ports

2007-12-03 Thread Peter Thoenen
Nikola Lečić wrote: > Hello, > > All ~80 *-aspell ports have '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'. Does this > mean that someone should take maintainership? Yep ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsub

Maintaining of *-aspell ports

2007-12-03 Thread Nikola Lečić
Hello, All ~80 *-aspell ports have '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'. Does this mean that someone should take maintainership? -- Nikola Lečić :: Никола Лечић ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubs

Re: All those 'Ports System Re-engrg" posts

2007-12-03 Thread Mark Linimon
He lost me around the "these days, the horsepower to rebuild ports is easily available." He clearly has not idea, whatsoever, of what the current work is. mcl ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-

Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering

2007-12-03 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jeremy Messenger wrote: > On Mon, 03 Dec 2007 20:23:20 -0600, Aryeh Friedman > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> >>> >>> Having said that dependencies often do depend on the order the leaves >>> are installed, because some ports will use alternate depen

Re: HELP needed by experienced porter for simple review

2007-12-03 Thread Jeremy Messenger
On Mon, 03 Dec 2007 15:50:21 -0600, GP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks a lot! I have as you sugested, but have a problems: $(MKDIR) $(FILESDIR) $(CP) ${WRKSRC}/kissdx.in ${FILESDIR} I don't really like to create FILESDIR and move from WRKSRC to FILESDIR. The WRKDIR/WRKSRC are the place

Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering

2007-12-03 Thread Jeremy Messenger
On Mon, 03 Dec 2007 16:15:10 -0600, Aryeh M. Friedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ===> Cleaning for xdm-1.1.6_2 What was I supposed to find? Did you actually run xdm or just assume because it compiled that it was installed the same way in al

Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering

2007-12-03 Thread Jeremy Messenger
On Mon, 03 Dec 2007 20:23:20 -0600, Aryeh Friedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Having said that dependencies often do depend on the order the leaves are installed, because some ports will use alternate dependencies according to what's already there. It makes things a lot easier to maintain. _

Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering

2007-12-03 Thread Aryeh Friedman
> > > Having said that dependencies often do depend on the order the leaves > are installed, because some ports will use alternate dependencies > according to what's already there. It makes things a lot easier to > maintain. > ___ btw xdm is not the wors

Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering

2007-12-03 Thread RW
On Mon, 03 Dec 2007 17:57:40 -0500 "Aryeh M. Friedman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually what see is a signficant difference in the way the banner is > displayed and no I will not change the rules becuase the root issue is > xdm-banner is only installed if you make the metaport with nothing >

Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering

2007-12-03 Thread Chuck Robey
Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chuck Robey wrote: Paul Schmehl wrote: Why the silly games? I get the feeling that Aryeh is honestly not understanding that he's trying to change the basic way that things get done in FreeBSD. He doesn't see that. In indu

Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering

2007-12-03 Thread Tom McLaughlin
On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 10:41 -0800, Brian wrote: > Here is a simple example of where improvement would be good. > > I add a package the easiest way I know on a slow system. > > mybox# pkg_add -r dnetc > Fetching > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6-stable/Latest/dnetc.tbz...

Re: PHP ClamAV Lib

2007-12-03 Thread jekillen
On Dec 3, 2007, at 6:21 AM, Attos wrote: You can execute ClamAV from PHP and parse the result. The exec() function can do the job. This is the description from the PHP manual: exec (PHP 3, PHP 4, PHP 5) exec -- Execute an external program Description string exec ( string command [, array &o

freebsd elm port

2007-12-03 Thread Brian
Of the 2 master sites listed, the vt site appears invalid, and the other gives an humorously odd 404 error, and just going to dragondata.com seems to lead to a domain registrar. entwistle# cd /usr/ports/mail/elm entwistle# ls Makefilefiles pkg-plist distinfopkg-descr

Re: How to get portinstall to 'shut up' so I can run it in background

2007-12-03 Thread Wes Morgan
On Tue, 4 Dec 2007, Stefan Sperling wrote: On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 02:53:12PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote: Clint Olsen wrote: I've tried redirecting standard output/error, both /bin/sh and /bin/csh, and I can't run this in batch. I'm trying to build gnome which takes hours, and I want it backgro

Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering

2007-12-03 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Mon, 03 Dec 2007 17:23:33 -0500 Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: > This is why I a asked informally for a p4 account (the person I asked > should be asking formally on my behalf soon)... To whom it may concern: please, *please*, no... Too much noise... WBR -- Boris Samorodov (bsam) Research Enginee

Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering

2007-12-03 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 05:33:09PM -0500, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Carl Johan Gustavsson wrote: > > Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: > >> perl (what is the difference between the 5.8.8 in the base system > >> and the one in ports?!?!?!?) > >> > > The b

Re: How to get portinstall to 'shut up' so I can run it in background

2007-12-03 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 02:53:12PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote: > Clint Olsen wrote: > > I've tried redirecting standard output/error, both /bin/sh and /bin/csh, > > and I can't run this in batch. I'm trying to build gnome which takes > > hours, and I want it backgrounded so that if this SSH shell di

Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering

2007-12-03 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Schmehl wrote: > --On Monday, December 03, 2007 17:15:10 -0500 "Aryeh M. Friedman" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> ===> Cleaning for xdm-1.1.6_2 >>> >>> What was I supposed to find? >> >> Did you actually run xdm or just assume because it co

Re: How to get portinstall to 'shut up' so I can run it in background

2007-12-03 Thread Doug Barton
Clint Olsen wrote: > I've tried redirecting standard output/error, both /bin/sh and /bin/csh, > and I can't run this in batch. I'm trying to build gnome which takes > hours, and I want it backgrounded so that if this SSH shell disconnects it > doesn't crater the build. You would think that --batc

Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering

2007-12-03 Thread Carl Johan Gustavsson
Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: > > perl (what is the difference between the 5.8.8 in the base system and > the one in ports?!?!?!?) > The base system does not contain Perl. /cjg ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listin

Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering

2007-12-03 Thread David Southwell
On Monday 03 December 2007 13:19:58 Chuck Robey wrote: > Paul Schmehl wrote: > > Here's a hint that would help a *ton* of users. Don't try to install a > > port until your ports tree is up to date. Completely up to date - as > > is, run portsnap or cvs or cvsup *first*, *then* try to install your

Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering

2007-12-03 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Monday, December 03, 2007 17:15:10 -0500 "Aryeh M. Friedman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ===> Cleaning for xdm-1.1.6_2 What was I supposed to find? Did you actually run xdm or just assume because it compiled that it was installed the same way in all cases... No, I didn't run xdm, becau

Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering

2007-12-03 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Carl Johan Gustavsson wrote: > Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: >> perl (what is the difference between the 5.8.8 in the base system >> and the one in ports?!?!?!?) >> > The base system does not contain Perl. Then why is it compiled by buildworld? - -- Aryeh

Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering

2007-12-03 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chuck Robey wrote: > Paul Schmehl wrote: >> Here's a hint that would help a *ton* of users. Don't try to >> install a port until your ports tree is up to date. Completely >> up to date - as is, run portsnap or cvs or cvsup *first*, *then* >> try to i

Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering

2007-12-03 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > > ===> Cleaning for xdm-1.1.6_2 > > What was I supposed to find? Did you actually run xdm or just assume because it compiled that it was installed the same way in all cases... hint: the visual appearance varies signficiantly depending on what meth

Re: HELP needed by experienced porter for simple review

2007-12-03 Thread GP
Thanks a lot! I have as you sugested, but have a problems: $(MKDIR) $(FILESDIR) $(CP) ${WRKSRC}/kissdx.in ${FILESDIR} I don't really like to create FILESDIR and move from WRKSRC to FILESDIR. The WRKDIR/WRKSRC are the place where you work anything inside. However, move from WRKSRC to FILESD

Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering

2007-12-03 Thread Chuck Robey
Paul Schmehl wrote: Here's a hint that would help a *ton* of users. Don't try to install a port until your ports tree is up to date. Completely up to date - as is, run portsnap or cvs or cvsup *first*, *then* try to install your port. I have several possible solutions (contact me privately i

Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering

2007-12-03 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Monday, December 03, 2007 14:20:16 -0500 "Aryeh M. Friedman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Try this as a challenge then install xdm cleanly on the first try without having to install any additional ports from the command line (what it drags in is fine) [EMAIL PROTECTED] make deinstall dist

FreeBSD amd64 and tightvnc port

2007-12-03 Thread Gunnar Steira Mikkelsen
Hi! I just migrated from 32bit FreeBSD to amd64 and realised that the tightvnc-port wasnt supported. A helpful guy called Tsurutani Naoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> provided me some patches http://barutan.s296.xrea.com/nocache/tightvnc139-amd64-20071010.diff.gz and thightvnc did compile. Unfortu

Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering

2007-12-03 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Edwin Groothuis wrote: > On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 03:01:37PM -0500, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: >>> Now, stop this thread, stop the discussion, build something, and >>> come back, if you cannot code or produce something with whatever >>> you think the tree

has FreeBSD's libc been swigged?

2007-12-03 Thread Chuck Robey
Need to do some python work, using a lot of FreeBSD's base libs, and I was wondering, if any ports have swigged the FreeBSD libs? I'll do it if I must, just trying to save me some work. Thanks. ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.

Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering

2007-12-03 Thread Edwin Groothuis
On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 03:01:37PM -0500, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: > > Now, stop this thread, stop the discussion, build something, and > > come back, if you cannot code or produce something with whatever > > you think the tree should be using, then *silence*. > > I know this will get me flam

Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering

2007-12-03 Thread Vivek Khera
On Dec 2, 2007, at 5:01 AM, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: 1. What is more important to your personal use of FreeBSD (the ports system, the underlaying OS, some other aspect)? The core OS. Ports is icing on the cake. 2. How frequently do you interact with the ports systems and what is the most

Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering

2007-12-03 Thread Vivek Khera
On Dec 3, 2007, at 1:39 AM, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: I am purposelly not looking at any previous solutions right now... If and when it is determined that changes to the current system are needed I will look at them then for ideas of what has not worked. (like the Internet or other large complex

Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering

2007-12-03 Thread Vivek Khera
On Dec 2, 2007, at 3:54 PM, Miguel Mendez wrote: I already replied to your questions in private but I wonder if you took a look at pkgsrc and the enhancements the OpenBSD people have done the pkg* commands and whether you think borrowing from them would be useful. I've been using pkgsrc on

Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering

2007-12-03 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > > > Now, stop this thread, stop the discussion, build something, and > come back, if you cannot code or produce something with whatever > you think the tree should be using, then *silence*. > I know this will get me flamed but I wonder if any

Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering

2007-12-03 Thread David Southwell
On Monday 03 December 2007 11:53:46 Remko Lodder wrote: > David Southwell wrote: > > Just what is your agenda here? > > That's so november 2007, we dont use calenders nowadays Do you mean a colender or a calendar? > > > Why all the spite and venom? > > > > If you do not have anything practical to

Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering

2007-12-03 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Skip Ford wrote: > Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: >> Paul Schmehl wrote: >>> --On Monday, December 03, 2007 13:53:06 -0500 "Aryeh M. >>> Friedman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Have you ever attempted to install the individual ports of a mega metaport

Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering

2007-12-03 Thread Remko Lodder
David Southwell wrote: > Just what is your agenda here? That's so november 2007, we dont use calenders nowadays > > Why all the spite and venom? > > If you do not have anything practical to contribute to the current discussion > that takes it forward then why waste your energies saying anythin

Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering

2007-12-03 Thread Chuck Robey
Paul Schmehl wrote: --On Monday, December 03, 2007 13:53:06 -0500 "Aryeh M. Friedman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Have you ever attempted to install the individual ports of a mega metaport? Of course I have. And I haven't run into any problems that weren't solvable. Before you waste any m

Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering

2007-12-03 Thread Skip Ford
Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: > Paul Schmehl wrote: > > --On Monday, December 03, 2007 13:53:06 -0500 "Aryeh M. Friedman" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> Have you ever attempted to install the individual ports of a mega > >> metaport? > >>> > > Of course I have. And I haven't run into any pro

Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering

2007-12-03 Thread David Southwell
On Monday 03 December 2007 10:59:00 Chuck Robey wrote: > Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Ade Lovett wrote: > >> On Dec 03, 2007, at 10:12 , Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: > >>> I have about 20 responses in private email and only the ones you > >>> ha

Re: portupgrade fails, because of perl problems

2007-12-03 Thread Doug Barton
On Mon, 3 Dec 2007, Heino Tiedemann wrote: , |/libexec/ld-elf.so.1:/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/mach/CORE/libperl.so: | Undefined symbol | "__sbmaskrune" | *** Error code 1 | | Stop in /usr/ports/graphics/ImageMagick. ` What can I do? Rebuild perl. Doug -- This .signature sanitiz

All those 'Ports System Re-engrg" posts

2007-12-03 Thread Chuck Robey
He took his roadshow over to -questions. Funny thing is, he has set of folks that are all just like him, and they are all merrily re-engineering ports. I figure he's going to sic one of his crew to come back and try again to talk folks into this. Seeing as no one here who has the ability to

Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering

2007-12-03 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Schmehl wrote: > --On Monday, December 03, 2007 13:53:06 -0500 "Aryeh M. Friedman" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Have you ever attempted to install the individual ports of a mega >> metaport? >>> > Of course I have. And I haven't run into a

Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering

2007-12-03 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Monday, December 03, 2007 13:53:06 -0500 "Aryeh M. Friedman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Have you ever attempted to install the individual ports of a mega metaport? Of course I have. And I haven't run into any problems that weren't solvable. Before you waste any more time, why don't y

Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering

2007-12-03 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
I'm with David when he said "enough." I think that Aryeh and David have received enough negative comments so that they now know how people feel. Now we should wait for them to do their promised work. And if they don't deliver, well, no harm, no foul! Stephen

Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering

2007-12-03 Thread Chuck Robey
Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ade Lovett wrote: On Dec 03, 2007, at 10:12 , Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: I have about 20 responses in private email and only the ones you have seen in public are in this category Enough said. There are currently ~180 people

Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering

2007-12-03 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ade Lovett wrote: > > On Dec 03, 2007, at 10:23 , Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: >> Only 2 are self-reported maintainers and at least 5 admit to not >> being maintainers... I think your main issue is you are 100% in >> "there is nothing wrong" camp and for w

Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering

2007-12-03 Thread Brian
A statisticaslly valid sample will be difficult here, I mean a slashdot poll is maybe a way to reach a wide portuion of the userbase, but they all think freebsd is dead:) Some user will object no matter what you do. Even if you emailed root of every system that did a portsnap or cvsup or freeb

Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering

2007-12-03 Thread Brian
Here is a simple example of where improvement would be good. I add a package the easiest way I know on a slow system. mybox# pkg_add -r dnetc Fetching ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6-stable/Latest/dnetc.tbz... Done. => Added group "dnetc". => Added user "dnetc". *

Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering

2007-12-03 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Schmehl wrote: > --On Monday, December 03, 2007 11:38:33 -0500 "Aryeh M. Friedman" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Coding before the problem is well understood is the worst of all >> possible solutions... specifically in many ways thats how to

portupgrade fails, because of perl problems

2007-12-03 Thread Heino Tiedemann
Hi There, portupgrade -a fails because auf some perl Problems: , |/libexec/ld-elf.so.1:/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/mach/CORE/libperl.so: | Undefined symbol | "__sbmaskrune" | *** Error code 1 | | Stop in /usr/ports/graphics/ImageMagick. ` It stops on differnt ports (graphics/ImageMagick

Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering

2007-12-03 Thread David Southwell
On Monday 03 December 2007 10:37:21 Ade Lovett wrote: > On Dec 03, 2007, at 10:23 , Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: > > Only 2 are self-reported maintainers and at least 5 admit to not being > > maintainers... I think your main issue is you are 100% in "there is > > nothing wrong" camp and for what ever r

Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering

2007-12-03 Thread Ade Lovett
On Dec 03, 2007, at 10:23 , Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: Only 2 are self-reported maintainers and at least 5 admit to not being maintainers... I think your main issue is you are 100% in "there is nothing wrong" camp and for what ever reason want to convience everyone else any effort to say/do differ

Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering

2007-12-03 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Monday, December 03, 2007 11:38:33 -0500 "Aryeh M. Friedman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Coding before the problem is well understood is the worst of all possible solutions... specifically in many ways thats how to the port system got into such a bad state I've run just about every *ni

Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering

2007-12-03 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ade Lovett wrote: > > On Dec 03, 2007, at 10:12 , Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: >> I have about 20 responses in private email and only the ones you >> have seen in public are in this category > > Enough said. There are currently ~180 people with direct acc

Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering

2007-12-03 Thread Ade Lovett
On Dec 03, 2007, at 10:12 , Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: I have about 20 responses in private email and only the ones you have seen in public are in this category Enough said. There are currently ~180 people with direct access to the ports/ tree (ie: ports committers). Even assuming all priva

Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering

2007-12-03 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Remko Lodder wrote: > Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: >> Ade Lovett wrote: > >> >> Then the community needs to make up it's mind because I have been >> criticized for making a wiki for a similar issue (SATA issues on >> ICH9(R)) You do sound like Marie

Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering

2007-12-03 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ade Lovett wrote: > > On Dec 03, 2007, at 09:42 , Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: >> If the questions are flawed then point out where.If the >> general concept of a survey vs. user stories vs. what ever then >> state which you think is more productive. I

Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering

2007-12-03 Thread Ade Lovett
On Dec 03, 2007, at 09:42 , Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: If the questions are flawed then point out where.If the general concept of a survey vs. user stories vs. what ever then state which you think is more productive. If your problem is the medium/forum the data is being gathered in see below.

Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering

2007-12-03 Thread Remko Lodder
Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: > Ade Lovett wrote: > > > Then the community needs to make up it's mind because I have been > criticized for making a wiki for a similar issue (SATA issues on > ICH9(R)) You do sound like Marie Antonetta. For the time being > as far I can tell the consensus is to k

Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering

2007-12-03 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ade Lovett wrote: > > On Dec 03, 2007, at 08:38 , Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: >> Coding before the problem is well understood is the worst of all >> possible solutions... > > Congratulations on snipping the relevant part of my email which > indicated how

Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering

2007-12-03 Thread Ade Lovett
On Dec 03, 2007, at 08:38 , Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: Coding before the problem is well understood is the worst of all possible solutions... Congratulations on snipping the relevant part of my email which indicated how fundamentally flawed your "survey" was. Until such time as you understa

Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering

2007-12-03 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > > > Live by the code, die by the code. > > Show us some code. Or, quite frankly, since y'all have missed the > subtleties of others, put up, or shut up. Coding before the problem is well understood is the worst of all possible solutions... specific

Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering

2007-12-03 Thread Ade Lovett
On Dec 03, 2007, at 03:08 , David Southwell wrote: Enough!! The zeroth group involves those that decide to invoke quasi-religious concepts where they're completely out of place, in a vain attempt to make their point. Live by the code, die by the code. Show us some code. Or, quite frank

Re: PHP ClamAV Lib

2007-12-03 Thread Attos
You can execute ClamAV from PHP and parse the result. The exec() function can do the job. This is the description from the PHP manual: exec (PHP 3, PHP 4, PHP 5) exec -- Execute an external program Description string exec ( string command [, array &output [, int &return_var]] ) exec() executes

mail/qmail* need RESTRICTED no more

2007-12-03 Thread Lapo Luchini
Yay! It's now Public Domain! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qmail#Copyright_status which leads to: http://cr.yp.to/talks/2007.11.02/slides.pdf (page 10) http://cr.yp.to/qmail/dist.html (last updated 29 november) http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3147768955127254412 (he himself stating it... a

Re: Announcing pkg_search

2007-12-03 Thread Matthias Schmidt
Hi, * Amarendra Godbole wrote: > On Dec 3, 2007 6:28 PM, Matthias Schmidt > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I wrote a small script called pkg_search to help me searching my local > > ports tree for a port/package without using "make search name=" or > > something like freshports.org. Its not a big

The best way to unbreak graphics/ffff: help needed

2007-12-03 Thread Boris Samorodov
Hi! The port graphics/ is currently broken with gcc-42. To unbreak the port with gcc-42 the compiler options "-msse -msse2 -m3dnow" should be used. I filed a PR: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=117874 But as pav noted not all processors do have those instructions. What should we d

Re: Announcing pkg_search

2007-12-03 Thread Amarendra Godbole
On Dec 3, 2007 6:28 PM, Matthias Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wrote a small script called pkg_search to help me searching my local > ports tree for a port/package without using "make search name=" or > something like freshports.org. Its not a big deal, but it eases my > daily pkg_add lif

Announcing pkg_search

2007-12-03 Thread Matthias Schmidt
[Resend to ports@, was first on [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi guys, I wrote a small script called pkg_search to help me searching my local ports tree for a port/package without using "make search name=" or something like freshports.org. Its not a big deal, but it eases my daily pkg_add life a bit

Current unassigned ports problem reports

2007-12-03 Thread FreeBSD bugmaster
Current FreeBSD problem reports The following is a listing of current problems submitted by FreeBSD users. These represent problem reports covering all versions including experimental development code and obsolete releases. Bugs can be in one of several states: o - open A problem report has bee

Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering

2007-12-03 Thread David Southwell
On Monday 03 December 2007 01:41:14 Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: > On Sun, Dec 02, 2007 at 05:01:35AM -0500, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: > > As has been hashed out in -ports@ over the last few days there is at > > least a need to examine weither or not the current ports system should > > remain as is or

Re: duration of the ports freeze

2007-12-03 Thread Ade Lovett
On Dec 03, 2007, at 01:18 , Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: I'm probably going to regret joining this thread, but quite frankly, the amount of horse being thrown around has gotten way out of hand. I have practical knowledge here in working with different dependency management systems (which is ess

configure: error: Could not find GLIB

2007-12-03 Thread Ken
checking whether to build static libraries... yes checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... no creating libtool checking for pkg-config... /usr/local/bin/pkg-config checking for glib-2.0... yes checking GLIB_CFLAGS... -I/usr/local/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/local/lib/glib- 2.0/include che

Re: [RFC/P] Port System Re-Engineering

2007-12-03 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On Sun, Dec 02, 2007 at 05:01:35AM -0500, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: > As has been hashed out in -ports@ over the last few days there is at > least a need to examine weither or not the current ports system should > remain as is or potentially be re-engineered in the future (estimates > if and when ne

Re: duration of the ports freeze

2007-12-03 Thread Josh Paetzel
On Saturday 01 December 2007 04:49:23 pm Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: > Peter Jeremy wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 04:10:14PM -0500, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: > >> This is due to thinking of the port system as one would of as say > >> make(1) namely a multistage transaction vs. one big atomic > >>

Re: duration of the ports freeze

2007-12-03 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Josh Paetzel wrote: > On Saturday 01 December 2007 04:49:23 pm Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: >> Peter Jeremy wrote: >>> On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 04:10:14PM -0500, Aryeh M. Friedman >>> wrote: This is due to thinking of the port system as one would of as