Re: Reducing the size of the ports tree (brainstorm v2)

2014-11-05 Thread Jeffrey Bouquet via freebsd-ports
On 11/05/14 16:42, Mark Felder wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 5, 2014, at 18:01, Jeffrey Bouquet wrote: >> On 11/05/14 13:30, Mark Felder wrote: >>> - duplicate packages registered in pkg_info >> I could simply /bin/rm -rf the duplicate subdirectory. >> > Your're treating the symptom not the problem. Thi

Re: Reducing the size of the ports tree (brainstorm v2)

2014-11-05 Thread Mark Felder
On Wed, Nov 5, 2014, at 18:01, Jeffrey Bouquet wrote: > > On 11/05/14 13:30, Mark Felder wrote: > > > > - duplicate packages registered in pkg_info > I could simply /bin/rm -rf the duplicate subdirectory. > Your're treating the symptom not the problem. This solves nothing and leaves potential

Re: Reducing the size of the ports tree (brainstorm v2)

2014-11-05 Thread Jeffrey Bouquet via freebsd-ports
On 11/05/14 13:30, Mark Felder wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 5, 2014, at 10:16, Roger Marquis wrote: >> Was a time when FreeBSD was believed to be a more stable and compatible >> platform than Linux. Of course all that backwards compatibility was >> thrown out the window with this year's make and pkg up

Re: Reducing the size of the ports tree (brainstorm v2)

2014-11-05 Thread Roger Marquis
Mark Felder wrote: Here's the lifecycle of a typical pre-pkgng server: 1) Install FreeBSD 2) Install your ports/packages 3) Server is in production 4) Attempt to update ports/packages 5) Disaster is now waiting to happen Perhaps typical for you but everywhere I've worked has had a much easier

Re: updating x11/xbindkeys for newer Tcl/Tk

2014-11-05 Thread Chris H
On Wed, 5 Nov 2014 22:34:18 + (UTC) Will Parsons wrote > When I went to build xbindkeys with Tcl support, I noticed it was > trying to install Tcl8.4, which is quite old. Since I already have > Tcl 8.5 and Tcl 8.6 installed, installing Tcl8.4 seemed to be a waste. > > I edited the Makefile

updating x11/xbindkeys for newer Tcl/Tk

2014-11-05 Thread Will Parsons
When I went to build xbindkeys with Tcl support, I noticed it was trying to install Tcl8.4, which is quite old. Since I already have Tcl 8.5 and Tcl 8.6 installed, installing Tcl8.4 seemed to be a waste. I edited the Makefile to replace references to 8.4 with 8.5, and it seems to build correctly

Re: Reducing the size of the ports tree (brainstorm v2)

2014-11-05 Thread Mark Felder
On Wed, Nov 5, 2014, at 10:16, Roger Marquis wrote: > > Was a time when FreeBSD was believed to be a more stable and compatible > platform than Linux. Of course all that backwards compatibility was > thrown out the window with this year's make and pkg updates, which made > management at my busin

Re: CFT: CentOS 6.6 base + userland

2014-11-05 Thread Kris Moore
On 11/05/2014 14:24, Sergey V. Dyatko wrote: > On Wed, 05 Nov 2014 14:21:36 -0500 > Kris Moore wrote: > >> On 11/05/2014 13:28, Sergey V. Dyatko wrote: >>> On Wed, 05 Nov 2014 01:42:35 -0500 >>> Kris Moore wrote: >>> On 11/05/2014 00:07, Johannes Meixner wrote: > On Tue, Nov 04, 2014 a

Re: CFT: CentOS 6.6 base + userland

2014-11-05 Thread Sergey V. Dyatko
On Wed, 05 Nov 2014 14:21:36 -0500 Kris Moore wrote: > On 11/05/2014 13:28, Sergey V. Dyatko wrote: > > On Wed, 05 Nov 2014 01:42:35 -0500 > > Kris Moore wrote: > > > >> On 11/05/2014 00:07, Johannes Meixner wrote: > >>> On Tue, Nov 04, 2014 at 04:14:05PM -0500, Kris Moore wrote: > Does r

Re: CFT: CentOS 6.6 base + userland

2014-11-05 Thread Kris Moore
On 11/05/2014 13:28, Sergey V. Dyatko wrote: > On Wed, 05 Nov 2014 01:42:35 -0500 > Kris Moore wrote: > >> On 11/05/2014 00:07, Johannes Meixner wrote: >>> On Tue, Nov 04, 2014 at 04:14:05PM -0500, Kris Moore wrote: Does running skype require the lemul branch still, or what minimum vers

Re: CFT: CentOS 6.6 base + userland

2014-11-05 Thread Sergey V. Dyatko
On Wed, 05 Nov 2014 01:42:35 -0500 Kris Moore wrote: > On 11/05/2014 00:07, Johannes Meixner wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 04, 2014 at 04:14:05PM -0500, Kris Moore wrote: > >> Does running skype require the lemul branch still, or what minimum > >> version of FreeBSD? > > It's a variant of Skype 4.2.0.1

Update for x11/nvidia-driver failed

2014-11-05 Thread Alex V. Petrov
===>>> Creating a backup package for old version nvidia-driver-331.67_1 Creating package for nvidia-driver-331.67_1 ===>>> Package saved to /usr/ports/packages/portmaster-backup Updating database digests format: 100% Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting) Deinstallation has been reques

Re: CFT: Update to xf86-video-ati 7.5.0

2014-11-05 Thread Marat N.Afanasyev
Marat N.Afanasyev wrote: Jean-Sébastien Pédron wrote: Hi! Before updating xf86-video-ati to 7.5.0, we would like some people to try it out. The reason is that 7.4.0 was crashing for several users, so we want to be sure it's fixed in 7.5.0. Here's patch: https://people.freebsd.org/~dumbbell/gra

Re: Reducing the size of the ports tree (brainstorm v2)

2014-11-05 Thread Roger Marquis
Darren Pilgrim wrote: The issue of 512b sector storage media going underlies this discussion. Whether the block size or fragment size is 512b or 512k it still seems trivial given drive capacities. What's missing here is a business case. Would it be worth all the refactoring that myself and ot

Re: Reducing the size of the ports tree (brainstorm v2)

2014-11-05 Thread Chris H
On Wed, 05 Nov 2014 07:26:01 -0500 Lowell Gilbert wrote > "Chris H" writes: > > > Difficult to tell for sure. I haven't examined the [UFS/ZFS] source > > to know for sure. Be valuable info. :) > > Reading source not required: start with "man newfs"; note blocksize and > frag-size. Indeed; -b .

Re: Reducing the size of the ports tree (brainstorm v2)

2014-11-05 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Chris H" writes: > Difficult to tell for sure. I haven't examined the [UFS/ZFS] source > to know for sure. Be valuable info. :) Reading source not required: start with "man newfs"; note blocksize and frag-size. ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing l

FreeBSD ports you maintain which are out of date

2014-11-05 Thread portscout
Dear port maintainer, The portscout new distfile checker has detected that one or more of your ports appears to be out of date. Please take the opportunity to check each of the ports listed below, and if possible and appropriate, submit/commit an update. If any ports have already been updated, you

Re: pkg 1.4 freeze please test test test!

2014-11-05 Thread Andriy Gapon
On 29/10/2014 15:53, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > yes remove the current pkg > > pkg delete -f pkg > > install ports-mgmt/pkg-devel (adding WITH_PKG=devel in make.conf) > use it So, I followed these instructions and got pkg replaced with 1.4.0.p.a16. Then I ran pkg upgrade like this: $ pkg upgrad

Re: Reducing the size of the ports tree (brainstorm v2)

2014-11-05 Thread Jeffrey Bouquet via freebsd-ports
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Re: SSH hangs while restarting services

2014-11-05 Thread Denny Lin
On Tue, Nov 04, 2014 at 08:48:03AM +0800, Denny Lin wrote: > Recently I've been trying to restart services remotely using SSH using a > command instead of entering the shell: > ssh host "sudo service postgresql restart" > > PostgreSQL is able to restart successfully, but SSH just hangs there > ins