Re: usage of shar command

2010-07-23 Thread Doug Barton
On Fri, 23 Jul 2010, Jesse Smith wrote: I would like to see a little clarification on the handling of shar in the handbook. Not a lot, but maybe a few examples. Most of the pages on porting up to that point I found pretty clear, but that part I found a little vague. Can you review the latest v

Re: Problems with sysutils/screen (GNU Screen)

2010-07-23 Thread Jim Trigg
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 10:25 PM, jhell wrote: > On 07/23/2010 15:43, Jim Trigg wrote: > > ls -l /usr/share/misc/termcap* > > You should see two files termcap and termcap.db > > Check the perms of both and the existence of both. > > I believe that cap_mkdb(1) is run on termcap to create the db but

Re: Problems with sysutils/screen (GNU Screen)

2010-07-23 Thread jhell
On 07/23/2010 15:43, Jim Trigg wrote: ls -l /usr/share/misc/termcap* You should see two files termcap and termcap.db Check the perms of both and the existence of both. I believe that cap_mkdb(1) is run on termcap to create the db but someone else should chime in on this because I am not sure at

Re: CFT: New version of portmaster in svn

2010-07-23 Thread jhell
On 07/23/2010 20:13, Doug Barton wrote: >> Server side: ( at port snapshot creation ) >> LOCATE_CONFIG=/usr/ports/locate.rc /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb >> locate.rc: >> FCODES="/usr/ports/locate.database" >> SEARCHPATHS="/usr/ports" >> >> real 149.79 > > It's n

Re: CFT: New version of portmaster in svn

2010-07-23 Thread Doug Barton
On Fri, 23 Jul 2010, jhell wrote: On 07/23/2010 15:00, Doug Barton wrote: Now what I _could_ do is use the same technique I use in --clean-distfiles (create a text file with the distfile information) but instead of limiting it to installed ports, do all of them. I have never even tested that t

Re: CFT: New version of portmaster in svn

2010-07-23 Thread jhell
On 07/23/2010 15:00, Doug Barton wrote: > The problem is that in order to accomplish that portmaster would have to > check every port in the tree. Assuming 22,000 ports, and that any given > port is equally likely to fall anywhere in the tree, on average you'd > have to search 11,000 ports for ever

Re: Fonts in linux-thunderbird

2010-07-23 Thread Doug Barton
On Fri, 23 Jul 2010, Tijl Coosemans wrote: On Wednesday 21 July 2010 01:38:16 Doug Barton wrote: I got tired of waiting for thunderbird 3.1 so I decided to give the linux version a try. Everything works fine, except for fonts. When attempting to change the fonts I can see the names of the fonts

Re: Problems with sysutils/screen (GNU Screen)

2010-07-23 Thread Jim Trigg
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 3:42 PM, Scott Sanbeg wrote: > /etc/termcap is symlinked to /usr/share/misc/termcap, which if not available > during your session (singer-user mode, for instance), produces that exact > type of error message. Test if the termcap db is actually available. It is; further, I

Re: Problems with sysutils/screen (GNU Screen)

2010-07-23 Thread Jim Trigg
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 3:29 PM, David Wolfskill wrote: > On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 03:23:41PM -0400, Jim Trigg wrote: >> I've been having problems with GNU Screen on FreeBSD 8.x.  First, the >> TERMCAP environment variable as automatically set by screen causes >> things not to work. (vi says "canno

RE: Problems with sysutils/screen (GNU Screen)

2010-07-23 Thread Scott Sanbeg
/etc/termcap is symlinked to /usr/share/misc/termcap, which if not available during your session (singer-user mode, for instance), produces that exact type of error message. Test if the termcap db is actually available. Hope it helps, Scott -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-po...@fr

Re: Problems with sysutils/screen (GNU Screen)

2010-07-23 Thread Alex Kozlov
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 03:23:41PM -0400, Jim Trigg wrote: > I've been having problems with GNU Screen on FreeBSD 8.x. First, the > TERMCAP environment variable as automatically set by screen causes > things not to work. (vi says "cannot open terminal database", mutt > says "no terminal database",

Problems with sysutils/screen (GNU Screen)

2010-07-23 Thread Jim Trigg
I've been having problems with GNU Screen on FreeBSD 8.x. First, the TERMCAP environment variable as automatically set by screen causes things not to work. (vi says "cannot open terminal database", mutt says "no terminal database", etc.) Second, when I put `eval tset -s` in .bashrc to reset the T

Re: CFT: New version of portmaster in svn

2010-07-23 Thread Doug Barton
On Fri, 23 Jul 2010, Douglas Berry wrote: Thanks for the new code! Package updates for perl work fine here, and no regressions found. Excellent! Thanks for taking the time to look it over. With respect to the --clean-* options, my earlier (a long time ago) test with --clean-distfiles showed

Re: Sourceforge has changed?

2010-07-23 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Thursday, July 22, 2010 21:49:26 -0400 Sahil Tandon wrote: On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 16:24:22 -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote: I'm trying to update a port that I maintain, but the download is failing. Here's the actual path of the download: http://nchc.dl.sourceforge.net/projects/afterglow/files/

Re: security/hydra and www/hydra

2010-07-23 Thread Shaun Amott
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 09:35:30AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > On 21/07/2010 23:05, Mark Linimon wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 10:21:11PM +0200, Kurt Jaeger wrote: > >>> And is this ok to have two ports with the same name. > >> > >> No, it's bad and should be avoided. I'm pretty sure som

Re: MASTER_SITE defined by google search result

2010-07-23 Thread Shaun Amott
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 12:17:31PM +0200, Emanuel Haupt wrote: > > Usually when I find that a port can't fetch the according distfile I > simply google for the distfile with the following search string (e.g. > for rsync): > > intitle:"index of" rsync-3.0.7.tar.gz > > This approach almost a

Re: lang/perl5.12 segfault (amd64 - 8-STABLE)

2010-07-23 Thread Sergey Skvortsov
On 17.07.2010 8:18, Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira wrote: > Hi, > > I am running 8-STABLE as of July 1st 2010. > > FreeBSD exxodus.fedaykin.here 8.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 8.1-PRERELEASE #14: Thu > Jul 1 12:50:38 BRT 2010 li...@exxodus:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/LIOUX amd64 > > With lat

Re: CFT: New version of portmaster in svn

2010-07-23 Thread Douglas Berry
Thanks for the new code! Package updates for perl work fine here, and no regressions found. With respect to the --clean-* options, my earlier (a long time ago) test with --clean-distfiles showed that valid distfiles would be deleted if the corresponding port was not installed. I'd like to onl

Re: Fonts in linux-thunderbird

2010-07-23 Thread Tijl Coosemans
On Wednesday 21 July 2010 01:38:16 Doug Barton wrote: > I got tired of waiting for thunderbird 3.1 so I decided to give the > linux version a try. Everything works fine, except for fonts. When > attempting to change the fonts I can see the names of the fonts listed > but changing it has no effect.

Re: CFT: New version of portmaster in svn

2010-07-23 Thread Paul Macdonald
On 23/07/2010 09:39, Doug Barton wrote: I have a new version of portmaster in pretty good shape at the moment so I'd like to ask for volunteers to test it. The changes and new features are described below. You can get the new version from svn at: http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base/user/dougb/p

Re: usage of shar command

2010-07-23 Thread Jesse Smith
I would like to see a little clarification on the handling of shar in the handbook. Not a lot, but maybe a few examples. Most of the pages on porting up to that point I found pretty clear, but that part I found a little vague. There's a line which says something like "attach the shar output to you

Installing makefiles for BSD Make

2010-07-23 Thread Michael Grünewald
Dear list, I want to port some software using BSD Make makefiles to build. I should probably port this collection of makefiles itself and I wish to know what is the best way to let make(1) find them. I think these files should go in ${LOCALBASE}/share/mk but maybe someone has a more interest

CFT: New version of portmaster in svn

2010-07-23 Thread Doug Barton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Howdy, I have a new version of portmaster in pretty good shape at the moment so I'd like to ask for volunteers to test it. The changes and new features are described below. You can get the new version from svn at: http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/

Re: General note on rc scripts and daemonizing

2010-07-23 Thread Dominic Fandrey
On 17/07/2010 12:56, Ed Schouten wrote: > ... > > This has various implications. The most important one I can think of, is > that the daemon can still do open("/dev/tty", ...) if it wants and spam > your TTY, even if the daemon is running as user `nobody'. This also > means that if you run the rc