Current unassigned ports problem reports

2011-04-25 Thread FreeBSD bugmaster
(Note: an HTML version of this report is available at http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr-summary.cgi?category=ports .) The following is a listing of current problems submitted by FreeBSD users. These represent problem reports covering all versions including experimental development code and

Re: on boot starting jails hangs

2011-04-25 Thread Wesley Shields
On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 09:32:13AM -0700, Mickey Harvey wrote: When I boot up my host rc hangs at starting jails: indefinitely. If i Control^C during the hang boot continues as usual so I login ,run jls and the jail appears to have started correctly. I can login to the jail as usual using

NX stacks on amd64 and powerpc

2011-04-25 Thread Kostik Belousov
I added a support for non-executable stacks on amd64 and PowerPC architectures some time ago, but did not enabled it. Passed time allowed to fix some bugs in the implementation, and I consider it would be good to have NX stacks enabled for architectures that support it. I plan to commit the

Re: Call for Testers: VirtualBox 4.0.6

2011-04-25 Thread Bernhard Froehlich
On Sun, 24 Apr 2011 16:37:15 -0400, Jason Andresen wrote: On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 13:01:40 +0200 Bernhard Froehlich de...@freebsd.org wrote: It's about two months since the last call for testers and a lot of bugfixing has happened since then. Not all of the reported problems were FreeBSD

ioncube checksum mismatch

2011-04-25 Thread Paul Macdonald
Hi, experienced over the past few days, (with updated portstree) fetch: http://downloads2.ioncube.com/loader_downloads/ioncube_loaders_fre_8_x86-64.tar.gz: size mismatch: expected 3157148, actual 3157150 = Attempting to fetch

Re: Errors during Upgrade netpbm-10.26.64_4 to netpbm-10.35.80_2

2011-04-25 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2011-Apr-22 14:20:06 +0200, Christoph Moench-Tegeder c...@burggraben.net wrote: THe current graphics/netpbm port does not compile if there's an older version of netpbm installed - /usr/local/include/pm.h from the older netpbm takes precedence over the port's lib/pm.h but misses some macros

Re: Errors during Upgrade netpbm-10.26.64_4 to netpbm-10.35.80_2

2011-04-25 Thread Doug Barton
On 04/25/2011 15:04, Peter Jeremy wrote: On 2011-Apr-22 14:20:06 +0200, Christoph Moench-Tegederc...@burggraben.net wrote: pkg_delete -f the old netpbm and re-install the port, worked for me. Followed by 'portmaster --check-depends' or equivalent to clean up the dangling dependencies. If

expiration of net/skype ?!

2011-04-25 Thread martinko
Hi all, So what is this deprecation and expiration of net/skype port please ?? I'm asking because I've been using it successfully for more than a year and installed it again just this weekend without any issue. And I've read in the mailing lists many others use it too. So why all that

Re: Deprecation campaign

2011-04-25 Thread martinko
Mark Linimon wrote: For those that want to see the state of all this, you can check out the following URL: http://portsmon.freebsd.org/portsconcordancefordeprecated.py In particular, the interesting entries for you may be the unmaintained ports (e.g. maintainer = po...@freebsd.org.) In

saving a few ports from death

2011-04-25 Thread martinko
Ok, I skimmed through the list of deprecated ports and I identifed the following that I may be using or at least used in past and I could take over their maintenance to save them from death: graphics/gimp-greycstoration misc/wmweather sysutils/wmmemmon All of them have already distfiles

Re: expiration of net/skype ?!

2011-04-25 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2011-Apr-26 01:47:30 +0200, martinko gam...@users.sf.net wrote: So what is this deprecation and expiration of net/skype port please ?? Whilst the Skype port still works, the version of Skype referenced by the port is no longer available and later versions of Skype do not (currently) work on

Re: Deprecation campaign

2011-04-25 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2011-Apr-26 02:02:02 +0200, martinko gam...@users.sf.net wrote: I understand you want to remove a port if it does not build and there is no one (in long time) to fix it. However, deprecating because a dist file moved, while port may be perfectly functional, seems a bit too much, imho. For

Re: saving a few ports from death

2011-04-25 Thread Doug Barton
On 04/25/2011 17:28, martinko wrote: Ok, I skimmed through the list of deprecated ports and I identifed the following that I may be using or at least used in past and I could take over their maintenance to save them from death: Generally by the time that a port has deteriorated to the point

Re: saving a few ports from death

2011-04-25 Thread Jeremy Messenger
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 7:48 PM, Doug Barton do...@freebsd.org wrote: On 04/25/2011 17:28, martinko wrote: Ok, I skimmed through the list of deprecated ports and I identifed the following that I may be using or at least used in past and I could take over their maintenance to save them from

Re: saving a few ports from death

2011-04-25 Thread Charlie Kester
On Mon 25 Apr 2011 at 17:48:31 PDT Doug Barton wrote: What we're trying to do here is to eliminate ports that are no longer useful. If we had some popularity stats, it would be interesting to see where the unmaintained ports fall on the list. Unfortunately, bsdstats doesn't include this

Re: saving a few ports from death

2011-04-25 Thread Ruslan Mahmatkhanov
26.04.2011 04:28, martinko пишет: Ok, I skimmed through the list of deprecated ports and I identifed the following that I may be using or at least used in past and I could take over their maintenance to save them from death: graphics/gimp-greycstoration Use graphics/gimp-gmic-plugin instead.

Re: saving a few ports from death

2011-04-25 Thread Ade Lovett
On Apr 25, 2011, at 21:41 , Charlie Kester wrote: Maybe freshports could implement a voting system like the one at osx.iusethis.com? Voting implies some kind of democracy. This may come as a shock to folks, but FreeBSD in general is in fact not democratic. It's based around the concept of