pkg has screwed up my ports

2012-10-15 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
This morning I updated my ports tree using svn, then ran portmaster -L to check outdated ports. portmaster was one of those ports. I then ran portmaster -a . it prompted me to select options from the blue options screen, I selected pkgng support. Anyway, the update of portmaster failed. I ran p

Re: [CHANGE PROPOSAL] Moving WWW from pkg-descr to Makefile

2012-10-07 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
[ Doug Barton wrote on Sat 6.Oct'12 at 13:44:42 -0700 ] > On 10/06/2012 00:15, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > Putting the WWW information into the port Makefile means that portindex > > only has to deal with about half as many files > > I have the same response to you and Baptiste. I get what you're

Re: flashplugin 11.2r202.238

2012-10-04 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
[ Jerry wrote on Thu 4.Oct'12 at 11:02:58 -0400 ] > On Thu, 04 Oct 2012 05:30:06 -0800 > Beech Rintoul articulated: > > > On 10/1/2012 11:56 PM, Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote: > > > 01.10.2012 21:33, Jerry wrote: > > >> I just finished installing "linux-f10-flashplugin-11.2r202.238". > > >> For some

Re: graphics/evince depends on vulnerable libxul19

2012-10-03 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
[ Anton Shterenlikht wrote on Wed 3.Oct'12 at 8:48:38 +0100 ] > ===> Installing for evince-2.32.0_9 > ===> evince-2.32.0_9 depends on file: > /usr/local/share/icons/gnome/index.theme - found > ===> evince-2.32.0_9 depends on executable: yelp - not found > ===>Verifying install for yelp

Re: removing non-existent ports from /var/db/pkg ?

2012-10-02 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
[ Matthew Seaman wrote on Tue 2.Oct'12 at 12:13:05 +0100 ] > At the moment, the only way to clear up is to manually remove the > outdated subdirectories from /var/db/ports. You can work out what is > out of date by comparing the list of sub-dirs to the list of installed > ports obtained by >

Re: removing non-existent ports from /var/db/pkg ?

2012-10-02 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
[ Matthew Seaman wrote on Tue 2.Oct'12 at 10:32:56 +0100 ] > On 02/10/2012 09:08, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > > I have on one system: > > > > # ls /var/db/pkg > > apr-1.4.6.1.4.1_1 help2man-1.40.10 > > pkgconf-0.8.4 > > auditfile help2man-1.40.

Re: Installing non-ports software into /usr/local

2012-10-01 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
[ Chris Rees wrote on Sun 30.Sep'12 at 11:47:52 +0100 ] > On 30 September 2012 11:16, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: > > Hi > > > > I am having an issue with mutt 1.5.21. I have set up different colour > > schemes, etc. as people do. Anyway, I reinstalled it 2 days

Installing non-ports software into /usr/local

2012-09-30 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
Hi I am having an issue with mutt 1.5.21. I have set up different colour schemes, etc. as people do. Anyway, I reinstalled it 2 days ago using the ports system, because I wanted to link mutt to the ncurses port rather than the system ncurses installation. After soing non of my colours show, onl

Re: [BRAINSTORMIG] name of the variable for passing command line options via make

2012-09-25 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
[ Pietro Cerutti wrote on Tue 25.Sep'12 at 13:41:41 +0200 ] > On 2012-Sep-25, 00:15, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > > Hi, > > > > One of the missing thing since we switch to OptionNG is a reliable ability > > to > > pass options via command line that would override make.conf and config file > > opt

Re: http://svn.freebsd.org/ports/head: Port's SVN server down?

2012-09-21 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
[ O. Hartmann wrote on Fri 21.Sep'12 at 16:34:20 +0200 ] > The whole day I get this error message on all systems I maintain, trying > to update the /usr/ports tree via svn: > > > # [/usr/ports]: make update > Updating '.': > svn: E175002: Unable to connect to a repository at URL > 'http://svn.fr

Re: [CORRECTION] Change to the header in ports Makefiles, take two

2012-09-17 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
[ Jeremy Messenger wrote on Mon 17.Sep'12 at 11:59:08 -0500 ] > > > IMHO, of course. :) > > I don't care if it's IMHO, but dude you are pain in ass already. > > > -- > > Freddie Cash > > fjwc...@gmail.com What is a pain in the arse are comments like this. We use FreeBSD and people make decisi

Re: query about portmaster output: "No ORIGIN ..."

2012-09-15 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
[ To freebsd-ports@freebsd.org wrote on Sat 15.Sep'12 at 10:45:03 +0100 ] > Hi > > This morning I updated my ports tree using svn. Then used `portmaster -L` to > check outdated ports, etc. and there is a message/warning/whatever, from > portmaster about linux-f10-alsa-lib-1.0.21_1 - this is the

query about portmaster output: "No ORIGIN ..."

2012-09-15 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
Hi This morning I updated my ports tree using svn. Then used `portmaster -L` to check outdated ports, etc. and there is a message/warning/whatever, from portmaster about linux-f10-alsa-lib-1.0.21_1 - this is the output: ===>>> linux-f10-alsa-lib-1.0.21_1 ===>>> No ORIGIN in /var

Re: [HEADS-UP] Announcing the end of port CVS

2012-09-08 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
[ Lars Eighner wrote on Fri 7.Sep'12 at 10:00:45 -0500 ] > On Fri, 7 Sep 2012, Beat Gaetzi wrote: > > >The development of FreeBSD ports is done in Subversion nowadays. > >For the sake of compatibility a Subversion to CVS exporter is > >in place which has some limitations. For CVSup mirroring cvs

Re: [HEADS-UP] Announcing the end of port CVS

2012-09-08 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
[ Lars Eighner wrote on Fri 7.Sep'12 at 10:00:45 -0500 ] > On Fri, 7 Sep 2012, Beat Gaetzi wrote: > > >The development of FreeBSD ports is done in Subversion nowadays. > >For the sake of compatibility a Subversion to CVS exporter is > >in place which has some limitations. For CVSup mirroring cvs

Re: [HEADS-UP] Announcing the end of port CVS

2012-09-07 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
[ Beat Gaetzi wrote on Fri 7.Sep'12 at 14:36:32 +0200 ] > % svn co https://svn0.us-west.FreeBSD.org/ports/head /usr/ports > > and update a checked out repository using: > > % cd /usr/ports && svn update > Can I just ask something about changing over to use sv - should I delete the entire /usr

current pkgng situation

2012-09-02 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
Hi I want to start using pkgng but from reading posts on this list it sppears there are still some tweaks required, as would be expected with a project like this. So, my question is: is it stable enough to start using now on my stable/9 system? I don't mind having to deal with the occasional p

Re: csup vs portsnap was: fresh install of kde4 fails -> japanese/kiten

2012-09-01 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
[ RW wrote on Sat 1.Sep'12 at 0:49:54 +0100 ] > On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 10:27:14 -0700 > Jim Pazarena wrote: > > > > Which is the recommended way to stay PORT current? portsnap or csup? > > I will switch to portsnap, but it is pretty slow compared to csup. > > In normal use portsnap should be muc

Re: pkgng questions

2012-08-30 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
[ Bryan Drewery wrote on Thu 30.Aug'12 at 9:51:55 -0500 ] > On 8/30/2012 8:43 AM, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: > > [ Mark Felder wrote on Thu 30.Aug'12 at 7:01:43 -0500 ] > > > >> I think you're very confused about what pkgng is for. At this time, ports

Re: pkgng questions

2012-08-30 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
[ Mark Felder wrote on Thu 30.Aug'12 at 7:01:43 -0500 ] > I think you're very confused about what pkgng is for. At this time, ports > are STILL the recommended way to install things and keep them up to date. > Pkgng is the first step required for us to get a better package management > syst

Re: upgrading ports with a lot of dependencies

2012-08-29 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
[ Kevin Oberman wrote on Tue 28.Aug'12 at 17:37:17 -0700 ] > And, as I mention rather often, pkg-libchk from > sysutils/bsdadminscripts can save you from rebuilding a LOT of ports. > pkg_libchk -o | grep LIBNAME | cut -d: -f1 | sort | uniq > dep-ports > (where LIBNAM is the sharable (.so) instal

Re: sysutils/conky Configure Options in Makefile

2012-08-29 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
[ Matt Burke wrote on Wed 29.Aug'12 at 9:01:59 +0100 ] > On 08/28/12 21:41, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: > > I have installed conky for use with my wm which is Spectrwm. However, > > looking in the conky Makefile one of the configure options has been > > disabled, tcp mon

sysutils/conky Configure Options in Makefile

2012-08-28 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
Hi I have installed conky for use with my wm which is Spectrwm. However, looking in the conky Makefile one of the configure options has been disabled, tcp monitoring (--disable-portmon), which is a feature i'd quite like to have available. Is there a reason the maintainer has disabled this opti

Re: vim & python as scripting language

2011-05-28 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 11:44:07AM +, Eitan Adler wrote: > > How is it that there is no 'make config' menu to choose options from? > > This has come up multiple times on this mailing list. The maintainer > dislikes the options system and has hidden vim's options behind a > variable "WITH_VIM_O

Re: Firefox 4 with PGO compile error

2011-05-25 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 07:47:25AM -0400, Jason Hellenthal wrote: > The build needs to have access to the Xserver as the user who is > building the port. Since you are root, the correct environment variables > would not be set as well no access to the server by its normal access > methods. > > A

Re: Firefox 4 with PGO compile error

2011-05-25 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 11:39:36AM +0200, Daniel Nebdal wrote: > I *think* that error is because it expects a gnome session (or at > least a dbus server) to be available. If you used plain "su" to become > root, it won't have the right environment. Could you try either sudo > or su -m ? I built

Re: linux-f10-flashplugin can't fetch

2011-05-24 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 05:49:36PM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On 2011-May-23 14:52:44 +0100, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: > >trying to install www/linux-f10-flashplugin but it fails before even > >downloading the file. I downloaded the file from Adobe's site and have put &

Re: linux-f10-flashplugin can't fetch

2011-05-23 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 03:51:29PM -0400, Jon Beliveau wrote: > Hi Jamie, > > The problem described seems similar to this thread: > https://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=1315 > > In short, run: > > cd /usr/ports/www/linux-f10-flashplugin10 > make makesum > make install clean > > And tha

linux-f10-flashplugin can't fetch

2011-05-23 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
Hello trying to install www/linux-f10-flashplugin but it fails before even downloading the file. I downloaded the file from Adobe's site and have put it into /usr/ports/distfiles/flashplugin/current/ & /usr/ports/distfiles/ but neither worked. Below is the error output. Can anyone help out wi

Re: Perl | Frequent update

2011-05-22 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 10:57:56AM +0100, Chris Rees wrote: > What's the point? > > Even minor versions of perl are stable, and odd numbers are the > development branches -- rather like the kernel of That Other Less-Free > OS. > > It's updated frequently because it's being worked upon by such a

Re: 8.2-PRERELEASE and Flash

2011-01-04 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 11:14:12AM -0500, Alex Goncharov wrote: > I play Flash in Firefox, (native) Opera and Chrome -- perfectly now. > For Firefox, the instructions in the Handbook worked for me. I followed the handbook process only yesterday and i'm not experiencing any problems with Fi

Re: www/firefox & mail/thunderbird fail to build

2010-12-02 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
> Hello, > > I suppose the system on which the port is being compiled on is low > in swap space. > > Try to disable compiler optimizations (make config). > > Here's a similar (same ?) problem > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-gecko/2010-February/000682.html > > With a workaround,

www/firefox & mail/thunderbird fail to build

2010-12-01 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
Hello everyone Installed my FreeBSD 8.1 system last night. Trying to build firefox and thunderbird and both fail when compiling the same component. I've put a screenshot on the net: http://gnix.co.uk/code.html I was wondering if anyone else had experienced this and if so if and how they fixed