Chris Whitehouse wrote on 01.09.2011 02:30:
[skipping the details since original problem was solved]
Now it builds and installs and is working fine, _and_ my original
problem has gone away.
thanks very much for your help. I'll drop the author a line to say it's
been fixed.
Chris
Sorry for d
(Not replying to any particular post in this thread.)
I think the current ports system in FreeBSD is not bad.
Sure, it could be better (but this would probably require
more manpower, which is a problem in a volunteer project),
but it also could be a *lot* worse.
I know of several people who are t
On 09/02/2011 02:24, Oliver Fromme wrote:
> Finally, I recommend to install ports-mgmt/pkg_cutleaves and
> run it regularly after updates
portmaster -s does the same thing.
FYI,
Doug
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Robert Huff said:
>Michel TALON writes:
>
>> Finally
>> the file UPDATING should be forcefully removed from the system
>
> While I support all reasonable efforts to get automation to
>always Do The Right Thing(tm), my reaction to this is: absolutely
>not.
> Until you can show there
On 09/02/2011 02:39, Michel Talon wrote:
> Your answer is very interesting and allows me to go further in the
> reasoning. Indeed the UPDATING file is here to solve edge cases. My
> point is that there shouldn't be any edge cases, if there are some it is
> because something somewhere has been ill d
Hi,
Reference:
> From: "Julian H. Stacey"
> Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2011 03:07:40 +0200
> Message-id: <201109020107.p8217efj089...@fire.js.berklix.net>
I wrote:
> Microsoft must grin at all us BSD, Linux, maybe Solaris & presumably
> even now http://www.minix3.org free source enthu
On 2 Sep 2011 10:50, "Julian H. Stacey" wrote:
> FYI:
> http://www.minix3.org ->
> http://wiki.minix3.org/en/UsersGuide/InstallingBinaryPackages ->
> http://pkgin.net/
> "
> pkgin is known to work and have been tested under the following platforms
:
>* NetBSD 4.0
>* NetBSD 5.{0,1}
>* N
Hi!
> > http://pkgin.net/
[...]
> > pkgin is known to work and have been tested under the following platforms
[...]
> So, what do you actually mean by this?
Probably just this: What about trying to port pkgin for FreeBSD, so that
pkgin can also be used on FreeBSD ?
If this solves the binary pkg-
On 09/02/2011 12:04, Kurt Jaeger wrote:
Hi!
http://pkgin.net/
[...]
pkgin is known to work and have been tested under the following platforms
[...]
So, what do you actually mean by this?
Probably just this: What about trying to port pkgin for FreeBSD, so that
pkgin can also be used on Fre
I'm having problems building www/firefox on ia64.
I was advised to:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=683879
--- Comment #3 from Boris Zbarsky (:bz) 2011-09-01
10:36:27 PDT ---
Do things work if you do use --disable-ipc?
--
How should I specify this
On 9/2/11 7:01 AM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> I'm having problems building www/firefox on ia64.
> I was advised to:
>
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=683879
>
> --- Comment #3 from Boris Zbarsky (:bz) 2011-09-01
> 10:36:27 PDT ---
> Do things work if you do use
> > No /pub/FreeBSD/branches/-current/ports/ports-mgmt/pkgin .
> > I'm not familiar with pkgin, but nice to see OS co-operation.
>
> So, what do you actually mean by this?
Re-read:
] Microsoft must grin at all us BSD, Linux,
] ... reinventing similar old ports shims for same old 3rd party
On 2 September 2011 07:18, Ade Lovett wrote:
> ade 2011-09-02 06:18:02 UTC
>
> FreeBSD ports repository
>
> Modified files:
> www/apache22 Makefile distinfo
> Log:
> Emergency upgrade to 2.2.20 - CVE-2011-3192. Any complaints, talk to me.
The vuxml originally marked all ve
On Fri, 2 Sep 2011, Doug Barton wrote:
On 09/02/2011 02:24, Oliver Fromme wrote:
Finally, I recommend to install ports-mgmt/pkg_cutleaves and
run it regularly after updates
portmaster -s does the same thing.
Well, sorta. How it chooses what to offer to remove is different.
portmaster -s o
Doug Barton wrote:
> On 09/02/2011 02:24, Oliver Fromme wrote:
> > Finally, I recommend to install ports-mgmt/pkg_cutleaves and
> > run it regularly after updates
>
> portmaster -s does the same thing.
No. pkg_cutleaves finds ports that I have installed at some
point in the past and then f
On 29 August 2011 18:14, Ade Lovett wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 11:10:30 +0100
> Chris Rees wrote:
>
>> http://www.marcuscom.com:8080/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/tinderweb/dbsrc/
>>
>> Watch out, there be dragons :(
>
> But they're happy dragons ;)
>
> As an aside, if there's likely to be 'official' tran
On 9/2/11 10:12 AM, Chris Rees wrote:
> Any docs people happy to attempt to migrate the build system for the
> Tinderbox README to FreeBSD-doc format? I'm pretty sure marcus would
> rather keep it where it is; it's an upstream thing rather than an OS
> thing.
>
I'll be happy to help.
--
Glen Ba
On Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 11:39:14AM +0200, Michel Talon wrote:
> My point is that there shouldn't be any edge cases
In a perfect world: yes.
> I certainly don't have any precise idea of the things which should be
> changed so that edge cases disappear
Well, then, we're right back where we started
On 2 Sep 2011 20:53, "Mark Linimon" wrote:
>
> On Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 11:39:14AM +0200, Michel Talon wrote:
> > My point is that there shouldn't be any edge cases
>
> In a perfect world: yes.
>
> > I certainly don't have any precise idea of the things which should be
> > changed so that edge case
On Fri, 2 Sep 2011 12:01:29 +0100
Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> I'm having problems building www/firefox on ia64.
> I was advised to:
>
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=683879
>
> --- Comment #3 from Boris Zbarsky (:bz)
> 2011-09-01 10:36:27 PDT --- Do things work if yo
Quoting Oliver Fromme (from Fri, 2 Sep 2011
11:24:16 +0200 (CEST)):
The other extreme are people who run a cron job every night
that updates /usr/ports (*) and runs "400.status-pkg" (from
/etc/periodic/weekly), possibly even followed by an automated
update (**). Of course this will sometimes
Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> Quoting Oliver Fromme (from Fri, 2 Sep 2011
> 11:24:16 +0200 (CEST)):
>
> > The other extreme are people who run a cron job every night
> > that updates /usr/ports (*) and runs "400.status-pkg" (from
> > /etc/periodic/weekly), possibly even followed by an aut
On 09/02/2011 06:25, Warren Block wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Sep 2011, Doug Barton wrote:
>
>> On 09/02/2011 02:24, Oliver Fromme wrote:
>>> Finally, I recommend to install ports-mgmt/pkg_cutleaves and
>>> run it regularly after updates
>>
>> portmaster -s does the same thing.
>
> Well, sorta. How it ch
On 02/09/2011 09:18, Ruslan Mahmatkhanov wrote:
Chris Whitehouse wrote on 01.09.2011 02:30:
[skipping the details since original problem was solved]
did you see that I had to add a line for MD5 to distinfo to make it work
on my 8.1-R system? Though the last change was to remove MD5...
No
On Thu, 1 Sep 2011, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
Hi,
Suggestion: pkgdb is too cryptic even with -v,
it needs more explanation what it is up to &
particularly what decisions it asks from user
Of course you never see messages from pkgdb unless something has gone wrong.
Some things go wrong in common
Hi Chris,
On 9/2/11 5:40 PM, Chris Whitehouse wrote:
> did you see that I had to add a line for MD5 to distinfo to make it work
> on my 8.1-R system? Though the last change was to remove MD5...
>
It sounds to me parts of your ports tree may be out of sync. MD5
distfile validation was removed fr
FYI.
Maintainer, there is a new version available, are you interested in
continuing to maintain this port, or would you like to release it?
I forgot to include the expiration in this commit, but I subsequently
set it to expire at the end of this month.
Thanks,
Doug
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Kurt Jaeger wrote:
> Probably just this: What about trying to port pkgin for FreeBSD,
> so that pkgin can also be used on FreeBSD ?
Volunteers?
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On 09/02/2011 14:58, Lars Eighner wrote:
> The main thing here, of course, is that ports uses "dependency" in the
> exact
> opposite of its normal English sense (just as twitter uses "following" in
> the exact opposite of its normal English sense).
>
> In normal Engish 'X is a dependency of Y' mea
Chris Whitehouse wrote on 03.09.2011 01:40:
On 02/09/2011 09:18, Ruslan Mahmatkhanov wrote:
Chris Whitehouse wrote on 01.09.2011 02:30:
[skipping the details since original problem was solved]
did you see that I had to add a line for MD5 to distinfo to make it work
on my 8.1-R system? Though
I've been trying to compile pan2 from the master git repository, and am
having problems getting a build that will actually run using the
--with-gtk3 configure switch.
The compilation goes OK, but execution fails with...
[conrads@serene ~/build/pan2]$ pan/gui/pan
Gtk-ERROR **: GTK+ 2.x symbols de
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