,--- Beat Gaetzi (Fri, 07 Sep 2012 14:36:32 +0200) *
| All users who use CVS or CVSup to update the ports tree are
| encouraged to switch to portsnap(8) [1] or for users which need more
| control over their ports collection checkout use Subversion directly
I just switched to 'svn'-ports on an
,--- You/Michel (Tue, 26 Jul 2011 11:27:56 +0200) *
| while most of people i hear are very unhappy with FreeBSD ports.
Nuts.
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,--- You/ben (Tue, 04 Jan 2011 15:16:26 +) *
| I've followed the steps at
| http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/desktop-browsers.html without any
| errors, except that neither Firefox nor any other
,--- You/Jeremy (Mon, 16 Aug 2010 23:01:14 -0700) *
| On 2010/05/11, ehaupt committed the following patch:
|
|
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/shells/bash/files/patch-Makefile.in
|
| And bumped PORTREVISION (from 0 to 1) in the Makefile. This
| unconditionally made bash require
$ /usr/ports/databases/postgresql-odbc/Makefile grep MAINTAIN
=
MAINTAINER=alex-goncha...@comcast.net
Please remove -- I am releasing my maintainership.
-- Alex -- alex-goncha...@comcast.net --
,--- You/Arjan (Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:19:58 +0100) *
| Unfortunately, our bug system is not open for reading by the public, but I
| can tell you that this bug report has been received and is being looked at
| by our build system maintainers
,--- You/Doug (Tue, 04 Aug 2009 08:26:08 -0700) *
| - increase the number of volunteers/committers/testers...
| This is the only valid answer for FreeBSD.
`---*
Take a look at the PR submission and update dates in
,--- You/Alex (Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:36:11 +0200) *
| I'll do it soon. I'd like to know who added the --enable-dtrace
| configure option, when the default is to enable it!
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=136263
/
||
|| Originator: Alex Goncharov
|
|| PR 136253 states: MySQL 5.4
,--- You/Alex (Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:23:10 +0200) *
| Alex Goncharov ha scritto:
| I think you did, when you took over the port.
|
| I understand you may feel angry because you didn't get the 100$
| donation. I'm sorry, but that's not my fault.
I am not angry -- have a good day and enjoy
,--- You/Paul (Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:18:02 +) *
| I just got a failure report for one of my ports:
| security/barnyard-squil. That port is a slave port to
| security/barnyard.
|
| **
| ERROR: unable to find mysql headers (mysql.h)
| checked
,--- You/Philip (Fri, 3 Jul 2009 15:09:32 -0400) *
|
| I'm not the maintainer :). You could help the process along if you've
| already compiled it by hand.
|
| 1) Create a patch against ports/databases/mysql51-*, and
| ports/Mk/bsd.database.mk
|
| 2) Send a pr in and request a repo copy.
,--- You/Paul (Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:56:48 +) *
| Since mysql is preselected, the port *should* install mysql if it's
| not installed. For some reason,
If MySQL is in BUILD or LIB _DEPENDS .
| Since it's a tinderbox, does it ignore OPTIONS and not install
| dependent ports?
Options
,--- You/Jerry (Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:30:15 -0400) *
| I am having the exact same problem. Several of my scripts are now
| failing. I have modified a few with the older ` tic method to make
| them work; however, I feel that the easiest thing would be to simply
| revert to Bash-3.
|
| Was this
,--- I/Alex (Wed, 04 Feb 2009 10:22:27 -0500) *
| ,--- I/Alex (Wed, 04 Feb 2009 08:55:28 -0500) *
| | ,--- You/Florent (Wed, 4 Feb 2009 13:21:15 +) *
| | | Please send patches. Kthxbye.
| |
| | Does this mean that you agree with me in principle and if I send you
| | patches, there
,--- You/Lars (Thu, 5 Feb 2009 20:20:50 -0600 (CST)) *
| Xorg upgrade (gory details follow) went south. I must have a working
| graphics browser by Monday. This is pretty much *vital*, as in a matter of
| survival.
Been there (last week) -- know what you mean.
| What is the fastest and/or
,--- Xin LI (Wed, 04 Feb 2009 00:59:18 -0800) *
| Is there anybody noticing that Xorg, when there is no mouse event,
| would not respond to keyboard events? Sometimes application would
| stall and moving mouse would make it resume...
Yes -- I've been noticing this since about last August.
,--- You/Alexander (Wed, 04 Feb 2009 08:37:40 +0100) *
| ,--- You/Jeremy (Tue, 03 Feb 2009 17:19:12 -0600) *
| | The pkg-config is not GNOME. Even the GTK+2 is not GNOME.
| | I am VERY surpised about that you are whining over it.
|
| In other words, you think that making base X11
,--- I/Alex (Wed, 04 Feb 2009 08:11:30 -0500) *
| A perfect example -- you can see the difference in how X and openssl
| approach this:
,--- You/m...@sysfault.org (Wed, 04 Feb 2009 15:01:22 +0100) *
| What you grep here are two completely different things.
That's exactly what I tried to
,--- I/Alex (Wed, 04 Feb 2009 08:55:28 -0500) *
| ,--- You/Florent (Wed, 4 Feb 2009 13:21:15 +) *
| | Please send patches. Kthxbye.
|
| Does this mean that you agree with me in principle and if I send you
| patches, there is a high probability they will he accepted (provided
| they
,--- I/Alex (Wed, 04 Feb 2009 08:11:30 -0500) *
| The use of USE_ make file variable should conform to what bsd.port.mk
| says, IMHO.
|
| | pkgconfig could be extracted from the USE_GNOME stuff, and it could
| | even maintained by someone else than the FreeBSD gnome team, but the
| | FreeBSD
,--- You/Robert (Wed, 04 Feb 2009 13:37:18 -0500) *
|
| On Wed, 2009-02-04 at 07:53 -0500, Alex Goncharov wrote:
| ,--- Xin LI (Wed, 04 Feb 2009 00:59:18 -0800) *
| | Is there anybody noticing that Xorg, when there is no mouse event,
| | would not respond to keyboard events? Sometimes
,--- You/Jeremy (Tue, 03 Feb 2009 17:19:12 -0600) *
| The pkg-config is not GNOME. Even the GTK+2 is not GNOME.
| I am VERY surpised about that you are whining over it.
In other words, you think that making base X11 blocks (such as drivers
and libxcb) depend on Gnome, per this definition in
I am trying to disengage from the latest X, and have had reasonable
success in this (thanks to everybody who had made the suggestions!):
1. Got the old (2008.12.23) ports tree and rebuilt the X-based
components as necessary.
2. Restarted my desktop (resulting in a perfect work
,--- Alexandre \ (Sun, 01 Feb 2009 12:03:06 -0500) *
| When I install the old packages, I can no longer rebuild and install
| new (say `csup'ed on 2009-03-01) port components, as one whole -- I
| can only do it selectively, excluding from the upgrade most
| X-dependent things. That sucks
,--- You/vehemens (Sun, 01 Feb 2009 10:34:50 -0800) *
| On Saturday 31 January 2009 04:20:26 pm Alex Goncharov wrote:
| ,--- You/vehemens (Sat, 31 Jan 2009 13:54:42 -0800) *
|
| | On Saturday 31 January 2009 01:25:21 pm Alex Goncharov wrote:
| | So, a *fundamental* (practically an OS
,--- You/Matthew (Sun, 1 Feb 2009 14:48:15 -0600) *
| On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 04:25:21PM -0500 I heard the voice of
| Alex Goncharov, and lo! it spake thus:
| Csup can only go forward -- or can it go back?)
|
| You can specify a date in a supfile since, like, ever
,--- You/vehemens (Sun, 01 Feb 2009 14:36:04 -0800) *
| On Sunday 01 February 2009 11:22:52 am Alex Goncharov wrote:
|
| Any data points to support the last statement?
|
| How about the last two xorg updates. Gnome has similar problems.
Last two -- when (or what numbers)?
| | You
,--- You/vehemens (Sat, 31 Jan 2009 11:53:58 -0800) *
| In general when upgrading, you take your chances. If a port upgrade
| fails, you should fall back to what worked.
So, a *fundamental* (practically an OS component) port is brought in
-- and it disables my system. What is my way of
,--- You/vehemens (Sat, 31 Jan 2009 13:54:42 -0800) *
| On Saturday 31 January 2009 01:25:21 pm Alex Goncharov wrote:
| So, a *fundamental* (practically an OS component) port is brought in
| -- and it disables my system. What is my way of action? Right --
| install the old packages, taken
,--- You/bf2006a (Sat, 31 Jan 2009 14:43:59 -0800 (PST)) *
| Alex:
|
| I can understand your frustration. The Xorg update, although it
| helps a lot of people, is inevitably going to cause problems for
| some, because it is run by so many people in different ways with a
| wide variety of
,--- You/Peter (Sat, 31 Jan 2009 06:53:11 +1100) *
| X11 is a critical component for anyone who is using FreeBSD as a
| desktop and having upgrades fail or come with significant POLA
| violations and regressions for significant numbers of people is not
| acceptable.
Fully agree with this.
|
,--- You/O. (Fri, 30 Jan 2009 23:19:41 +0100) *
| After upgrading one of my FreeBSD 8.0-CUR/amd64 boxes to new xorg-7.4
| and having done hurting recompiling nearly everything/package twice now
| firefox3 still doesn't work properly and hits me when starting with this
| error message:
|
|
,--- You/Bruce (Thu, 29 Jan 2009 12:06:45 +) *
| One theory is that somehow the mouse driver ioctls which are passed
| to ums, are somehow hosing USB, although why that would be, I don't
| understand. ums currently doesn't have driver instrumentation in that path.
|
| I pulled a
,--- You/Robert (Thu, 29 Jan 2009 08:40:11 -0500) *
| I've had patches available for probably a couple of months now posted to
| freebsd-...@. For the few people who tested it, I had no real issues
| reported. We were stalled for a long time, While X kept moving, so the
| amount of change
,--- You/Robert (Thu, 29 Jan 2009 09:12:47 -0500) *
| Problem is, it isn't just the Xserver... All of the pieces are
| intertwined and so in many cases to update Xserver you also need to
| update some/several libraries as well as all of your drivers. Xorg is
| about 60 or 70 ports now.
That
,--- You/Dan (Wed, 28 Jan 2009 20:39:10 -0700) *
| While this enabled the mouse (without HAL), it did nothing good about:
|
| a. The bogus keyboard scans.
You are quoting me and I need to clarify...
| Everyone is talking about an xorg.conf
| The new X.org 7.4 upgrade hit me too: no
,--- You/Diego (Tue, 27 Jan 2009 23:50:11 +0100) *
| On my -current I get some weirdness with latest xorg, latest hal...
Take a look at the issue
ports/131016: xorg-7.4 renders system unusable!
in the bug system re: other people's unfortunate experiences with this
upgrade. My personal
,--- You/Kent (Tue, 27 Jan 2009 21:38:47 -0800) *
| I had 3 system with this problem and they started to work after I added
| (Options AutoAddDevices off) to the ServerLayout section.
I did have the `Options AutoAddDevices false' piece, and the two
other required disregard HAL options in the
I upgraded my X Window system today, with these instructions in mind:
# /usr/ports/UPDATING
20090124:
sysutils/hal has been updated and should now properly detect
mice for use in Xorg. Use of AllowEmptyInput should no longer
be needed for most users and moused should now work
,--- You/Ivan (Mon, 01 Sep 2008 11:29:39 +0200) *
| Can someone else confirm this? Do your postgresql83-server ports build?
Builds for me:
$ make
cc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith
-Winline -Wdeclaration-after-statement
,--- You/Ivan (Mon, 1 Sep 2008 13:45:32 +0200) *
| After I fix this manually with make makesum, there's another problem:
Did you try this simple fix instead:
diff Makefile~ Makefile
110c110
PATCHFILES+= pg-833-icu-xx-2008-06-11.diff.gz:icu
---
PATCHFILES+=
,--- You/Palle (Mon, 01 Sep 2008 14:05:40 +0200) *
| Yeah, that's what I failed to commit last week, but did commit right now.
| It is all that is needed.
Ahem, while you are it, would you be able to take a look at the
unassigned PR postgresql-odbc and perhaps expedite my patch commit?
---
,--- Doug Barton (Sun, 03 Aug 2008 22:14:54 -0700) *
| It's really not appropriate to hijack the portupgrade thread for this,
| so I'm starting a new subject. Also, please respect followups to
| -ports.
[ Being an inexperienced poster: sorry. Am I using a good cc: list now? ]
| Alex
,--- You/Xuebin (Tue, 22 Apr 2008 01:50:02 +0800) *
|
| To whom may concern:
|
| I check port tree and know that this address is maintainer mailbox for sbcl
| port. I've sent similar mail to cmucl maintainer but had no reply
| yet.
If you look at the CMUCL version in ports, you will find it
There has been a point recently made on a `freebsd-' list about
unnecessary dependencies of the `xorg-server' package, it being
dependent on `gnome' and `hal', for example. That's a valid point and
I am with those who don't want this dependency to exist -- but at
least this dependency can be
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