Re: The ports collection has some serious issues

2016-12-17 Thread Alphons van Werven
John Marino wrote: > maybe you could open one final PR and provide a patch that does this? Fair enough, will do. Fonz -- A.J. "Fonz" van Werven Notice: this e-mail address wil expire on Sat 24 Dec 2016. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: The ports collection has some serious issues

2016-12-17 Thread Alphons van Werven
Michael Gmelin wrote: > Maybe you could elaborate a bit more what you find so annoying about > running "poudriere testport origin" before doing "svn commit" that you > are willing to drop port maintainership over it? Sure. In this case it's the precedent that bugs me. Needless to say, not being

Re: The ports collection has some serious issues

2016-12-17 Thread Alphons van Werven
John Marino wrote: > In fact, anyone that updates ports should use either poudriere testport > or synth test. Then consider these relinquished: /usr/ports/archivers/zip /usr/ports/astro/wmmoonclock /usr/ports/astro/xearth /usr/ports/devel/byaccj /usr/ports/devel/csmith /usr/ports/devel/gzstream

Re: Lame: MPEG Audio Layer III (MP3) encoder

2016-11-13 Thread Alphons van Werven
Anastasios Mageirias wrote: > wow it's not listed in "pkg search -o lame" There's a *port* for it, but not a binary package. That has to do with patent issues. Fonz -- A.J. "Fonz" van Werven mailsig: Help! I'm a prisoner in a Chinese fortune cookie factory. signature.asc Description: PGP si

Re: Resurrecting games/wmfortune (Was: Re: misc/jive deleted)

2016-11-07 Thread Alphons van Werven
Julian H. Stacey wrote: > FYI in case newer than yours, Fonz, I have > MD5 (9.2-RELEASE/wmfortune-0.241.tar.gz) = fa8db5d9a46d9afe7757f498c781e8c9 > SHA256 (9.2-RELEASE/wmfortune-0.241.tar.gz) = > b149067b7e3521f7e03354b12754baaf9c5556af4d286bbd6d169b1db9f6dba0 > > It builds & run on my 9.2,

Resurrecting games/wmfortune (Was: Re: misc/jive deleted)

2016-10-23 Thread Alphons van Werven
Dave Horsfall wrote: >> There used to be "offensive" (a term to be taken rather loosely in this >> case) fortune cookies, but they got kicked out somewhere in 9.X. That >> was the base system though; not the ports tree. > > Not to mention "fortune -o" (to get the obscene versions) and there wer

Fwd: Re: Jive prejudices

2016-10-23 Thread Alphons van Werven
Louis Epstein wrote: > In any event,portmaster -a -i updates now abort because misc/jive is > detected on my system. > > This goes beyond "We will no longer provide this application" to > "we will no longer let you upgrade your applications as long as you > have this one installed". To be fair,

Re: misc/jive deleted

2016-10-22 Thread Alphons van Werven
Mark Linimon wrote: >>> >> >> Answering opposition/criticism with violence isn't exactly my style. > > If you say something that makes me want to plow my face into my hands, > that's violence? I stand corrected. Something got lost in translation there. Fonz -- A.J. "Fonz" van Werven mailsi

Re: misc/jive deleted

2016-10-22 Thread Alphons van Werven
Mark Linimon wrote: > Answering opposition/criticism with violence isn't exactly my style. I tend to take it as an indication that one has run out of rational arguments. Moreover, I think you'll find that the word you're looking for is . > It's not delusions of moral superiority. It's common

Re: misc/jive deleted

2016-10-22 Thread Alphons van Werven
Grzegorz Junka wrote: > Could you maybe have a separate category in ports, called "uncensored" or > something? We are all adults and can take care of ourselves, can't we? If memory serves me well, that has been suggested before and there were reasons (which I don't remember) for not doing that. M

Re: misc/jive deleted

2016-10-22 Thread Alphons van Werven
andrew clarke wrote: > Is this the first time a port has been deleted for being "offensive"? There used to be "offensive" (a term to be taken rather loosely in this case) fortune cookies, but they got kicked out somewhere in 9.X. That was the base system though; not the ports tree. Come to think

Re: OrbFit Software on FreeBSD

2016-07-01 Thread Alphons van Werven
Jonathan Moore wrote: > I was wondering it OrbFit was in the ports. I really haven't looked yet. I can't find it in the ports tree. I'd be happy to see if I can create a port for it, *provided* I can find the time. HTH, Fonz -- A.J. "Fonz" van Werven mailsig: Help! I'm a prisoner in a Chines

Re: blanket portmgr approval vs. non-fixing changes

2016-06-28 Thread Alphons van Werven
Kevin Golding wrote: > and about the same time someone did a blanket update of RUN_DEPENDS in > my ports. Including a PORTREVISION bump. It's easy to argue that's a > very trivial change that doesn't needs maintainer involvement, but it > also impacted my day. [snip] > Had I known about the blanke

Re: iozone3-434 fails to rebuild

2016-06-21 Thread Alphons van Werven
Doug Sampson wrote: > it crashes as follows: > > ### > <...snip...> > iozone.c:1297:1: error: unknown type name 'off64_t'; did you mean 'off_t'? > off64_t offset = 0; /*offset for random I/O */ > ^~~ > off_t > /usr/include/sys/types.h:173:18: note: 'off_t' declared here > type

Re: Jail's emails

2016-06-11 Thread Alphons van Werven
Grzegorz Junka wrote: > I will review the suggestions and re-post on the jails list if something > still needs to be clarified. By the way: if you really have your heart set on combining all jail reports into a single e-mail you could do something along the following lines: 1. Decrease verbosity

Re: Jail's emails

2016-06-11 Thread Alphons van Werven
Grzegorz Junka wrote: > I am wondering if there is any standard way of dealing with those emails > in installations where there is many more jails than in my case? This has nothing to do with ports, but still: 1. You can have the output of the periodic(8) scripts sent to a logfile instead of e-m

Re: science/hdf5 ABI broken

2016-06-02 Thread Alphons van Werven
Steve Kargl wrote: >> Sounds like a job for the port's maintainer... > > I'm going under the assumption that if one is a maintainer, then s/he > will be reading this list. Ideally, yes. But in practice I doubt that every maintainer is subscribed to ports@ -- and reads it frequently. Hence, I alw

Re: science/hdf5 ABI broken

2016-05-30 Thread Alphons van Werven
Steve Kargl wrote: > Please supply either a science/hdf5-1.8 port, revert the 1.10.0 > update, or consider the above patches. Sounds like a job for the port's maintainer... % make -C /usr/ports/science/hdf5 maintainer HTH, AvW -- A.J. "Fonz" van Werven mailsig: Ob technicas difficultates, lu

Re: mail/ssmtp: mailer.conf instruction in handbook differs from pkg-message

2016-05-29 Thread Alphons van Werven
Christoph Brinkhaus wrote: >> I recommend doing what the port says. The Handbook appears to be incorrect >> at this point and probably needs updating. > > I have created a patch as > https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=209831 > and referred to this discussion. Thanks. There really

Re: pkg updating -d broken?

2016-05-26 Thread Alphons van Werven
Matt Smith via freebsd-ports wrote: > Anybody else notice that pkg updating -d has been broken for a while? Or > is it just me? > > # grep 2016 /usr/ports/UPDATING | head -4 > 20160526: > 20160525: > 20160523: > 20160511: > > # pkg updating -d 20160523 Just to be sure: you do know that "pkg upd

Re: mail/ssmtp: mailer.conf instruction in handbook differs from pkg-message

2016-05-25 Thread Alphons van Werven
Grzegorz Junka wrote: > If you installed from ports then this is what works for me: > > sendmail/usr/local/sbin/sendmail > send-mail /usr/local/sbin/sendmail > mailq /usr/local/sbin/sendmail > newaliases /usr/local/sbin/sendmail > hoststat/usr/local/sbin/sendm

Re: mail/ssmtp: mailer.conf instruction in handbook differs from pkg-message

2016-05-25 Thread Alphons van Werven
Marko Cupa? wrote: > Are they both correct, or one of them needs to be updated? I recommend doing what the port says. The Handbook appears to be incorrect at this point and probably needs updating. HTH, Fonz -- A.J. "Fonz" van Werven mailsig: Ob technicas difficultates, lux in fine cuniculum

Re: Is redports.org back?

2016-04-22 Thread Alphons van Werven
Fernando Apestegua wrote: > Damn it! I was starting to cry of happiness. I hope it's back soon :) As much as I loathe the semi-illiterate "language" of Twitter, texting, MSN and what have you, here's a "+1". Redports was a blessing for port maintainers and I hope it gets back into full swing soon

Re: Mailman in a jail

2016-04-21 Thread Alphons van Werven
Jim Ohlstein wrote: > Mailman logs show connection errors. I don't know exactly how Postfix and Mailman (try to) communicate with one another, but is it possible that SysV IPC has to be enabled for the jail? Or maybe raw sockets, although that's probably less likely. Fonz -- A.J. "Fonz" van W

Re: Email lists

2016-04-14 Thread Alphons van Werven
Matthias Apitz wrote: >> I'm looking to create an email campaign with a nice newsletter or email >> I really don't want to spam. ... > > Any email you send to someone who has not given you the email addr for > such campaign and has not agreed in receive such mails, is per definition > to be consi

Re: Unable to update ports using svnlite

2016-02-24 Thread Alphons van Werven
Clinton Bessesen wrote: > after trying many different things, it seems to have been a DNS issue. Glad I could help. Note that I symlinked svnlite to svn because otherwise # make -C /usr/ports update doesn't work: "svn" is hardwired into one of the Makefiles somewhere. If you use svn directly (e

Re: Unable to update ports using svnlite

2016-02-24 Thread Alphons van Werven
Clinton Bessesen wrote: > Running freebsd 10.2 and have been able to checkout the ports/head using > svnlite for quite sometime in the past. [snip] > unable to run "/usr/bin/svnlite checkout --depth empty > svn://svn.freebsd.org/ports/head /tmp/ports/tree" I don't know how others handle this, but

Re: category customports

2016-02-18 Thread Alphons van Werven
Walter Schwarzenfeld wrote: > But this could be overwritten with the next update. [snip] > But this could also [sic] overwritten. You're using portsnap for your updates, I presume? Subversion will not override local changes (at least not without asking first). I have a tree here that contains loc

Re: Removing documentation

2016-02-10 Thread Alphons van Werven
John Marino wrote: > Well, if I make the assume that Kevin has been using portmaster, and > that using Synth revealed 42 obsolete cached configurations, I would > have to conclude PM doesn't do this anymore or does it very poorly and > misses a large number of configs. Using the latest version of

Re: Removing documentation

2016-02-10 Thread Alphons van Werven
Freddie Cash wrote: >> A) An option is added >> B) An option is removed >> C) An option default changed. >> D) Any other option configuration changed. >> >> Synth is the *only* tool that detects this. > ???portmaster used to do this; was this option removed? It was one of the > nicer features o